Definition of coffin

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Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

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Mephistophelian :: Mephistophelian (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend; devilish; crafty..
Vernaculous :: Vernaculous (a.) Scoffing; scurrilous.
Encoffin :: Encoffin (v. t.) To put in a coffin.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument..
Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Irreligious; scoffing.
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..
Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Unplumb :: Unplumb (v. t.) To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.
Jeering :: Jeering (a.) Mocking; scoffing.
Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.
Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Coffining :: Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffi.
Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot..
White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia..
Chest :: Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.
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