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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..

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..

Coffined :: Coffined (imp. & p. p.) of Coffi.

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

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

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

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

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.

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

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

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.

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..

Scoptical :: Scoptical (a.) Jesting; jeering; scoffing.

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..

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

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

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.

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

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