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4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. 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. --Shak. 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coffin \Cof"fin\, v. 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? --Shak. Devotion is not coffined in a cell. --John Hall (1646). From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: coffin n : 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.
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