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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..

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..

Unplumb :: Unplumb (v. t.) To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin..

Laminitis :: Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

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..

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.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..

Encoffin :: Encoffin (v. t.) To put in a coffin.

Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.

Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..

Mephistophelian :: Mephistophelian (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend; devilish; crafty..

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..

Coffin :: Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin..

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone 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..

Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Irreligious; scoffing.

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..

Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument..

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