Coffin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An oblong box in which a corpse is buried.
  • n. The horny part of a horse's hoof.
  • v. To place in or as if in a coffin.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried.
  • n. A basket.
  • n. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  • n. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  • n. 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.
  • v. To place in a coffin.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
  • n. A basket.
  • n. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
  • n. A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
  • n. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
  • v. To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A basket.
  • n. A mold of paste for a pie; the crust of a pie. See custard-coffin.
  • n. The chest, box, or case; in which a dead human body is placed for burial: usually made of wood or lead, but sometimes of stone or iron, or even of glass.
  • n. A paper twisted in the form of a cone, used as a bag by grocers; a cap or cornet.
  • n. In farriery, the hollow part of a horse's hoof, or the whole hoof below the coronet, including the coffin-bone.
  • n. In printing: The wooden frame which inclosed the stone or bed of the old form of hand printing-press.
  • n. The frame which incloses an imposing-stone.
  • n. In milling, one of the sockets in the eye of the runner, which receives the end of the driver.
  • n. In mining, old workings open to the day; where the ore was raised to the surface by the cast-after-cast method.
  • n. In ceramics, same as cassette.
  • To cover with paste or crust. See coffin, n., 2; also extract under baked-meat, 2.
  • To put or inclose in a coffin, as a corpse; hence, figuratively, to confine; shut up.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. place into a coffin
  • n. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
  • Verb Form
    coffins   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    position    pose    put    set    lay    place   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    coffined    coffining   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    basket    box    casket    hearse    cist    kist    sarcophagus    shell    encoffin   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    casket    tomb    slab    staircase    statue    chest    furniture    vault    cage    vase