COFFIN

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

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Usage notes

• The type of coffin with upholstery and a half-open lid (mostly in the United States) is called a casket.

Verb

coffin (third-person singular simple present coffins, present participle coffining, simple past and past participle coffined)

(transitive) To place in a coffin.

Synonyms

• encoffin

Proper noun

Coffin (plural Coffins)

A surname.

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Coffin is the 4274^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 8312 individuals. Coffin is most common among White (91.34%) individuals.

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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