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  1. 1. n. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. A basket. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. Source: opted
  5. 5. n. The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. To inclose in, or as in, a coffin. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated Source: wordnet
  8. 8. v. place into a coffin Source: wordnet
  9. 9. 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. 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
  10. 10. 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 horseand allied animals, inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding tothe third phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.-- Coffin joint, the joint next above the coffin bone. Source: adambom
  11. 11. n:100 n. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated v. place into a coffin Source: ecdict

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