Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Inhume \In*hume"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Inhumed}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Inhuming}.] [Cf. F. inhumer. See {Inhumate}.]
   1. To deposit, as a dead body, in the earth; to bury; to
      inter.

            Weeping they bear the mangled heaps of slain, Inhume
            the natives in their native plain.    --Pope.

   2. To bury or place in warm earth for chemical or medicinal
      purposes.