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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White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..
Jeering :: Jeering (a.) Mocking; scoffing.
Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..
Coffin :: Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin..
Shell :: Shell (n.) A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one..
Chest :: Chest (n.) A coffin.
Kist :: Kist (n.) A chest; hence, a coffin..
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..
Vernaculous :: Vernaculous (a.) Scoffing; scurrilous.
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..
Scoffing :: Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scof.
Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.
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..
Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..
Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A basket.
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..
Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin..
Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..
Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..
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