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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

... bridegroom could have been more cheerful. He was dressed in his old blue campaign uniform and was as bold and manly as ever. He expressed joy that Cromartie had been pardoned, inspected with interest the inscription on his coffin, and smilingly called the block his pillow of rest. 'Pon honour, the intrepid man then rehearsed the execution with his headsman, kneeling down at the block to show how he would give the signal for the blow. He then got up again, made a tender smiling ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

... QUEETIE, O my heart is consumed In the coffin under ground, O how I feel for her, She and I could never part, She was my own heart within me, She had more than common love, And ...

— A Complete Edition of the Works of Nancy Luce • Nancy Luce

... for his stops, the attempt to make up a cotillon set was left to the heroic Brooks. Yet he barely escaped disaster when, in posing the couples, he incautiously begged them to look a little less as if they were waiting for the coffin to be borne down the aisle between them, and was rewarded by a burst of tears from Mrs. Johnson, who had lost a child two years before, and who had to be led away, while her place in the set was taken by another. Yet the cotillon passed off; a Spanish dance succeeded; ...

— Under the Redwoods • Bret Harte

... gates, shall any honor so distinguished, so emblematical of purity and all perfections, be conferred upon you as this which I now bestow. It is yours; yours to wear throughout an honorable life, and at your death to be deposited upon the coffin which shall inclose your lifeless remains, and with them laid beneath the ...

— Masonic Monitor of the Degrees of Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft and Master Mason • George Thornburgh

... "Everything is good as it comes from the hand of the author of nature; everything degenerated in the hand of man." In another place he breaks out: "Man is born, lives, and dies in a state of slavery. At his birth he is stitched into swaddling clothes, at his death he is nailed in his coffin; and as long as he preserves the human form he is held captive ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

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