a. Obs. Also funebrous. [f. as prec. + -OUS. With funebrous cf. OF. funebreux.] = prec.
1653. Sir G. Wharton, Disc. Comets, Wks. (1683), 159. Comets are certain Funebrious Appearances.
1654. Cokaine, Dianea, III. 217. At so funebrous a spectacle I could not refraine from griefe.
1669. R. B., Life T. Morton, Pref. 16. Funebrious sickness of the plague.
1708. Ozell, trans. Boileaus Lutrin, iii. 42. Here Ravens and Funebrous Birds resort.
1721. Bailey, Funebrous. [In mod. Dicts.]