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Kist :: Kist (n.) A chest; hence, a coffin..

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..

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..

Coffining :: Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffi.

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 casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..

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

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

Pastern :: Pastern (n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse..

Jeering :: Jeering (a.) Mocking; 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..

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

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

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..

Scoffery :: Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.

Hearsecloth :: Hearsecloth (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.

Shell :: Shell (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one..

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

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