coffin
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cof·fin 
[kaw-fin, kof-in] Pronunciation Key
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[kaw-fin, kof-in] Pronunciation Key –noun
–verb (used with object)
| 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. |
| 3. | Printing.
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| 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]
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cof·fin·less, adjective
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Cof·fin
[kaw-fin, kof-in] Pronunciation Key
[kaw-fin, kof-in] Pronunciation Key –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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| cof·fin
(kô'fĭn, kŏf'ĭn) Pronunciation Key
n.
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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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
coffin
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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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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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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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).
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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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