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noun

Coffin n.

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.)

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.)

(Far.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

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.

verb

Coffin v. t. (past & past part. coffined; pres. part. coffining) 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."

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"Coffin" Quotes from Famous Books

... succeed, however; nor was any article taken on board. A good look-out was kept for men, from aloft, but none were seen from any of the vessels. The lake had swallowed up the rest of the two crews; and the Scourge, as had been often predicted, had literally become a coffin to a large portion ...

— Ned Myers • James Fenimore Cooper

... man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite and the drug which restores him to health. On the ermine which decorates the judge and the rope which hangs the criminal. On the brass nails of the coffin and on the ribbons of the bride. At bed or at board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road, and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine (which has ...

— Principles Of Political Economy • John Stuart Mill

... incongruous proximity in the existence of those who live pell-mell in moral and material disorder after the manner of the poor. There was even a wedding coach in the back of the corner undertaker's establishment, and in the front window a coffin, small and white, as though death itself were more attractive in the young, as though the little people of the quarter were nearer Heaven and more suggestive of angels than their life-worn elders. The spotless tiny coffin with its fringe and satin tufting had its share of the ...

— The Woman Who Toils - Being the Experiences of Two Gentlewomen as Factory Girls • Mrs. John Van Vorst and Marie Van Vorst

... child gravely, "will they put you in a coffin and carry you away and put you in the ground and cover ...

— The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries - Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 • Various

... strongly advocating the use of white troops upon the coast instead of West Indian regiments, when written to by Sir Garnet Wolseley for his advice as to articles of outfit, replied that the only article which he could strongly commend would be that each officer should take out his coffin. ...

— By Sheer Pluck - A Tale of the Ashanti War • G. A. Henty

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