Coffin

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coffin \Cof"fin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coffined}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Coffining}.]
     To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
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           Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?


                                                    --Shak.
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           Devotion is not coffined in a cell.      --John Hall
                                                    (1646).
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Coffin \Cof"fin\ (?; 115), n. [OE., a basket, receptacle, OF.
     cofin, fr. L. cophinus. See {Coffer}, n.]
     1. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for
        burial.
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              They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a
              coffin.                               --Gen. 1. 26.
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     2. A basket. [Obs.] --Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20).
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     3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
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              Of the paste a coffin I will rear.    --Shak.
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     4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] --Nares.
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     5. (Far.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below
        the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
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     {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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  coffin
       n : box in which a corpse is buried or cremated [syn: {casket}]
       v : place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Coffin
     used in Gen. 50:26 with reference to the burial of Joseph. Here,
     it means a mummy-chest. The same Hebrew word is rendered "chest"
     in 2 Kings 12:9, 10.