coffin, casket
(noun) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
coffin
(verb) place into a coffin; “her body was coffined”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
coffin (plural coffins)
A rectangular closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
Synonym: casket (US)
(cartomancy) The eighth Lenormand card.
(obsolete) A basket.
(archaic) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(obsolete) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
A storage container for nuclear waste.
• The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.
coffin (third-person singular simple present coffins, present participle coffining, simple past and past participle coffined)
(transitive) To place in a coffin.
• encoffin
Coffin (plural Coffins)
A surname.
• According to the 2010 United States Census, Coffin is the 4274th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8312 individuals. Coffin is most common among White (91.34%) individuals.
Source: Wiktionary
Cof"fin, n. Etym: [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.)
Definition: 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.
Cof"fin, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coffined; p. pr. & vb. n. Coffining.]
Definition: 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).
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
Coffee dates back to the 9th century. Goat herders in Ethiopia noticed their goats seem to be “dancing” after eating berries from a particular shrub. They reported it to the local monastery, and a monk made a drink out of it. The monk found out he felt energized and kept him awake at night. That’s how the first coffee drink was born.
