COFFIN
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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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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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