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 Tomb n.
 1. A pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited; a grave; a sepulcher.
    As one dead in the bottom of a tomb.   --Shak.
 2. A house or vault, formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof, for the reception of the dead. “In tomb of marble stones.”
 3. A monument erected to inclose the body and preserve the name and memory of the dead.
    Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb.   --Shak.
 Tomb bat Zool., any one of species of Old World bats of the genus Taphozous which inhabit tombs, especially the Egyptian species (Taphozous perforatus).