Coffin /(?; 115)/
Cof·fin
Coffin
n.
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The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin.
- A basket. [Obs.]
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A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
- A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.]
- The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. (Far.)
Phrases & Compounds
- Coffin bone
- the foot bone of the horse and allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.
- Coffin joint
- the joint next above the coffin bone.
Coffin
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Coffined; p. pr. & vb. n. Coffining
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To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?
Devotion is not coffined in a cell.