- 1. n. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Source: opted
- 2. n. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin. Source: opted
- 3. n. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial. Source: opted
- 4. n. a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) Source: wordnet
- 5. 1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland. 2. A coffin or chest-shaped tomb of the kind of stone described above; hence, any stone coffin. 3. A stone shaped like a sarcophagus and placed by a grave as a memorial. Source: webster
- 6. n:100 n. a stone coffin (usually bearing sculpture or inscriptions) Source: ecdict
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