About The Word Coffin
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Coffin
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What's The Definition Of Coffin?
[n] box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
[v] place into a coffin; "her body was coffined" Synonyms | Synonyms for Coffin: casket Related Terms | Find terms related to Coffin: See Also | bier | box | lay | place | pose | position | put | sarcophagus | set Coffin In Webster's Dictionary \Cof"fin\ (?; 115), n. [OE., a basket, receptacle, OF.
cofin, fr. L. cophinus. See {Coffer}, n.]
1. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for
burial.
They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a
coffin. --Gen. 1. 26.
2. A basket. [Obs.] --Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20).
3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
Of the paste a coffin I will rear. --Shak.
4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] --Nares.
5. (Far.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below
the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
{Coffin bone}, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals,
inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third
phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.
{Coffin joint}, the joint next above the coffin bone.
\Cof"fin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coffined}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Coffining}.] To inclose in, or as in, a coffin. Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home? --Shak. Devotion is not coffined in a cell. --John Hall (1646). |
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