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

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..

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

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..

Chest :: Chest (n.) A coffin.

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

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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