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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Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.
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.
Coffining :: Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffi.
Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..
Chest :: Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.
Shell :: Shell (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one..
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..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..
Pincoffin :: Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints..
Scoffing :: Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scof.
White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..
Scoffery :: Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.
Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Coffined :: Coffined (imp. & p. p.) 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..
Jeer :: "Jeer (v.) To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker..
Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
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