coffin
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: cartomancy
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
Etymology: From Middle English coffyn, from Old Northern French cofin (“sarcophagus", earlier "basket, coffer”), from Latin cophinus (“basket”), a loanword from Ancient Greek κόφινος (kóphinos, “a basket”). Doublet of coffer. Displaced native Old English þrūh.
Inflected forms:
form: coffins
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: cophin
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: coffyn
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: coffins
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coffining
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: coffined
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: coffined
pos: verb
tags: past
form: cophin
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: coffyn
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
Senses:
gloss: A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.
pos: noun
examples: […] Passing the apple-tree blows of white and pink in the orchards, / Carrying a corpse to where it shall rest in the grave, / Night and day journeys a coffin.
20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
I’d always found the royals a cold proposition, Diana excepted, but the sight of that little boy, his head bent, not daring to look up at his mother’s coffin in front of him was, and remains, genuinely heartbreaking.
Plans to carry the Queen's coffin from Edinburgh to London by rail were scrapped in favour of travel in a Royal Air Force cargo aircraft.
gloss: The eighth Lenormand card.
pos: noun
gloss: A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
pos: noun
tags: archaic
examples: Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
Take your mallard and put him into the iuyce of the sayde Onyons, and season him with pepper, and salte, cloues and mace, then put your Mallard into the coffin with the saide iuyce of the onyons.
gloss: A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: The smoke of this Hearbe, which they receaue at the mouth through certaine coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.
gloss: The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
pos: noun
gloss: A storage container for nuclear waste.
pos: noun
gloss: A combination fence obstacle where the horse jumps a set of rails, strides downhill to a ditch, and then goes back uphill to another jump.
pos: noun
gloss: To place in a coffin.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.
The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon.
Derived words: another nail in someone's coffin
another nail in the coffin
coffin birth
coffin bone
coffin corner
coffin dodger
coffin fly
coffinful
coffin handle
coffinless
coffinlike
coffinmaker
coffinmaking
coffin nail
coffin ride
coffin rider
coffin ship
coffin tack
coffin window
drive a nail in someone's coffin
encoffin
encoffiner
encoffinment
final nail in the coffin
flying coffin
hanging coffin
Job's Coffin
last nail in the coffin
nail in one's coffin
recoffin
safety coffin
treetrunk coffin
uncoffin
Y-shaped coffin
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