Definition of coffin

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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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Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..
Jeering :: Jeering (a.) Mocking; scoffing.
Unplumb :: Unplumb (v. t.) To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..
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 (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..
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..
Scoffing :: Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scof.
Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..
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..
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..
Scoffery :: Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.
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..
Pincoffin :: Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints..
Laminitis :: Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument..
Coffin :: Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin..
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..
Coffining :: Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffi.
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