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Chest :: Chest (v. i.) To place in a coffin.

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers..

Railingly :: Railingly (adv.) With scoffing or insulting language.

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

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..

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

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..

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..

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

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..

White-foot :: White-foot (n.) A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin..

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

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

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

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..

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

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