Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of coffin is as below...

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.

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

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

Coffinless :: Coffinless (a.) Having no coffin.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Vernaculous :: Vernaculous (a.) Scoffing; scurrilous.

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..

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

Random Fonts

Most Popular