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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..

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

Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..

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

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

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

Coffined :: Coffined (imp. & p. p.) of Coffi.

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

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

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

Pincoffin :: Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints..

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..

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

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

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

Chest :: Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.

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

Scoffing :: Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scof.

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