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† vespillo(n Obs. rare.
Also vespilone.
[a. L. vespillōn-, vespillo (also vespa), acc. to Festus f. vesper evening. So obs. F. vespillon.]
(See quot. 1656.)
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. iii. 11 Such as..were of high parentage..were buried in the euening by certaine men who had that charge, who were called Vespillons. Ibid. iv. 12 Such..were buried in the night time, by the Vespillons clothed all in white. 1643Sir T. Browne Relig. Med. i. §38 By raking into the bowells of the deceased, continuall sight of Anatomies, Skeletons, or Cadaverous reliques, like Vespilloes, or Grave-makers. 1656Blount Glossogr., Vespilone, he that carries forth dead bodies in the night to be buried, as they use in time of plague and great sickness. |