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..
White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..
Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
Scoptical :: Scoptical (a.) Jesting; jeering; scoffing.
Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers..
Pincoffin :: Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints..
Coffining :: Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffi.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..
Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.
Coffin :: Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..
Quittor :: Quittor (n.) A chronic abscess, or fistula of the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone..
Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.
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..
Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Coffinless :: Coffinless (a.) Having no coffin.
Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..
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