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

White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..

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..

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

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

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

Chest :: Chest (n.) A coffin.

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

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

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

Coffinless :: Coffinless (a.) Having no 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 case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

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..

Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

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..

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

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

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

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

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