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Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This
cof·fin       [kaw-fin, kof-in] Pronunciation Key
–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.
3.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]

cof·fin·less, adjective
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Cof·fin       [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.
American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
cof·fin       (kô'fĭn, kŏf'ĭn)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. An oblong box in which a corpse is buried.
  2. 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.]

Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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.

WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
coffin

noun
1. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated 

verb
1. place into a coffin; "her body was coffined" 

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 - Cite This Source - Share This

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).

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.

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