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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Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..
Pincoffin :: Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints..
Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Laminitis :: Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..
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..
Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.
Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Coffinless :: Coffinless (a.) Having no coffin.
Chest :: Chest (n.) A coffin.
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument..
Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
Coffined :: Coffined (imp. & p. p.) of Coffi.
Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..
Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Irreligious; scoffing.
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