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Coffin :: Coffin (n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie..

Sidebone :: Sidebone (n.) A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse.

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..

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

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

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

Inhearse :: Inhearse (v. t.) To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin..

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

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

Laminitis :: Laminitis (n.) Inflammation of the laminae or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder.

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

Heathen :: Heathen (a.) Irreligious; scoffing.

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..

Pallbearer :: Pallbearer (n.) One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

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

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..

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

Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.

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