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embalmed

slang Drunk. Do you remember last night at the bar at all? You were really embalmed!
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embalmed

mod. alcohol intoxicated. By morning they were all embalmed.
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Upon the death of Lincoln's 11-year-old son Willie in 1862, (http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/education/williedeath.htm) he had the boy's body embalmed .
How Lincoln's Embrace Of Embalming Birthed The American Funeral Industry
No longer is nearly every body embalmed, nor does nearly every funeral involve a visitation at the funeral home.
The high cost of protecting (morbid) jobs: state laws favoring mortuaries save jobs but hurt consumers
Histological and morphological studies have been conducted comparing muscle fibers and tendons in fresh frozen cadavers embalmed with the Thiel method and with formalin, trying to identify anomalies in the tissue that explain the mobility of Thiel-embalmed cadavers.
Walter Thiel's Embalming Method. Review of Solutions and Applications in Different Fields of Biomedical Research/ Metodo de Embalsamamiento de Walther Thiel. Revision de las Soluciones y sus Aplicaciones en Diferentes Campos de Investigacion Biomedica
"It has been decided that the body of the comandante will be embalmed so that it remains eternally on view for the people at the museum," Maduro said in statement to State TV.
Hugo Chavez to be embalmed
Referring to an email he sent to the British embassy stating his intention to have his wife's body embalmed, Mr Coutts-Wood asked him: "Was the purpose of that email, to get your wife's body embalmed, an attempt by you to cover up any toxicology that could be done?" "No," Mr Cadman-Jones said.
Man grilled over wife's honeymoon drug death
Those found with coupons on their person were embalmed and prepared for shipment back home to their families.
Embalming in the Civil War: a Canadian mortuary tradition: while it is widely known that the U.S. Civil War ushered in a new generation of weaponry, it also redefined the standard treatment of battlefield corpses
When a loved one dies I want to see their face embalmed and made up in the casket one last time before burial.
Think outside the box: it's time we laid our current American burial practices to rest in favor of a more authentically Catholic--and eco-friendly--approach
Bekisa Dwangu, who was trained by van der Kemp, further clarified what happens to the body as it is embalmed:
Death 'on the move': funerals, entrepreneurs and the rural-urban Nexus in South Africa
Stunned police in Kenmare were tipped o that he was living with the embalmed corpse in a rented at.
SON ON RUN WITH MUM'S BODY IN CAR; Cops in hunt for embalmed corpse
The National Funeral Director's Association estimates that two million Americans are embalmed each year.
Drinking grandma: the problem of embalming
THE man who embalmed Diana, Princess of Wales, told her inquest he regretted not waiting to get the official written go ahead.
Britain Today: Regret over embalming
His body was embalmed, his hair bleached white and he was reportedly buried in a special metal casket paid for by Bob Dylan.
Remember When? July 1969
It will tell us about the religious plants and herbs used by ancient Egyptians, what they wore, how they wove it, how they embalmed the dead," she said.
IN BRIEF: Tomb revealed in Egypt
Even in Los Angeles, Herms has been largely ignored as a potential influence on Mike Kelley's saliva-stained stuffed toys, Jason Meadows's animalistic abstractions, or Jedediah Caesar's geodes of studio debris embalmed in resin.
George Herms: Santa Monica Museum of Art
The result is that some wards in Tokyo have already passed edicts stating that for all victims of homicides and suicides, the bodies must be embalmed so as to preserve key evidence until the police are finished with their investigations.
Mourning in Japan: an American entrepreneur in business for the bereaved
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