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Webster 1913 Edition
Coffin
1.
The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a
coffin
. Gen. 1. 26.
2.
A basket.
[Obs.]
Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20).
3.
A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
Of the paste a
coffin
I will rear. Shakespeare
4.
A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
[Obs.]
Nares.
5.
(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.
Cof′fin
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Coffined
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Coffining
.] To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come
coffined
home? Shakespeare
Devotion is not
coffined
in a cell. John Hall (1646).
Webster 1828 Edition
Coffin
COFFIN
, n.1.
The chest or box in which a dead human body is buried, or deposited in a vault.2.
A mold of paste for a pie.3.
A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers.4.
In farriery, the hollow part of a horses hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof.COFFIN
,Verb.
T.