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cof·fin

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–noun

1.	the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket.

2.	the part of a horse's foot containing the coffin bone.

Printing.

a.	the bed of a platen press.

b.	the wooden frame around the bed of an early wooden press.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to put or enclose in or as in a coffin.

[Origin: 1300–50; ME cofin < ONF < L cophinus < Gk kóphinos a kind of basket

]

—Related forms

cof·fin·less, adjective

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–noun

1.	Levi, 1798–1877, U.S. abolitionist leader.

2.	Robert P(eter) Tristram, 1892–1955, U.S. poet, essayist, and biographer.

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n.

An oblong box in which a corpse is buried.
The horny part of a horse's hoof.

tr.v. cof·fined, cof·fin·ing, cof·fins
To place in or as if in a coffin.

[Middle English cofin, basket, from Old French, from Latin cophinus, from Greek kophinos.]

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coffin

c.1330, from O.Fr. cofin "sarcophagus," earlier "basket, coffer," from L. cophinus "basket," from Gk. kophinos "a basket," of uncertain origin. Funeral sense in Eng. is 1525; before that it was literal and had also a meaning of "pie crust." Coffin nail "cigarette" is slang from 1880.

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coffin
noun
1.	box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
verb
1.	place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"

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coffin [ˈkofin] noun

(American ˈcasket) a box for a dead body to be buried or cremated in
Example: The coffin was placed in the grave.

Arabic:	تابوت، نَعْش
Chinese (Simplified):	棺材
Chinese (Traditional):	棺材
Czech:	rakev
Danish:	kiste
Dutch:	kist
Estonian:	puusärk
Finnish:	ruumisarkku
French:	cercueil
German:	der Sarg
Greek:	φέρετρο
Hungarian:	koporsó
Icelandic:	kista
Indonesian:	peti mati
Italian:	bara

Japanese:	棺
Korean:	관
Latvian:	zārks
Lithuanian:	karstas
Norwegian:	likkiste
Polish:	trumna
Portuguese (Brazil):	caixão
Portuguese (Portugal):	caixão
Romanian:	sicriu
Russian:	гроб
Slovak:	truhla, rakva
Slovenian:	krsta
Spanish:	ataúd
Swedish:	likkista
Turkish:	tabut

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Coffin

Cof"fer\ (?; 115), n. [OF. cofre, F. coffre, L. cophinus basket, fr. Gr. ?. Cf. Coffin, n.]

1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. --Chaucer.

In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. --Shak.

2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; -- usually in the plural.

He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake. --Bacon.

Hold, here is half my coffer. --Shak.

3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

4. (Fort.) A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.

5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary.

Coffer fish. (Zo["o]l.) See Cowfish.

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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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

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