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

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

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

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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