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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Hearsecloth :: Hearsecloth (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.
Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or 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..
Mephistophelian :: Mephistophelian (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend; devilish; crafty..
Hearse :: Hearse (n.) A grave, coffin, tomb, or sepulchral monument..
Chest :: Chest (n.) A coffin.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
Scoffery :: Scoffery (n.) The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery.
Scoptical :: Scoptical (a.) Jesting; jeering; scoffing.
Coffin :: Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin..
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..
Encoffin :: Encoffin (v. t.) To put in a coffin.
Kist :: Kist (n.) A chest; hence, a coffin..
Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.
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