coffin

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to place into a coffin

   The body was coffined professionally.

2. 2
   noun

   A closed box in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial.

   […] 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.

3. 3
   noun

   A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

   Of the paste a coffin I will rear.

4. 4
   noun

   A conical paper bag, used by grocers.

   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.

5. 5
   verb

   To place in a coffin.

   Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining.

6. 6
   noun

   box in which a corpse is buried or cremated

7. 7
   noun

   The eighth Lenormand card.

8. 8
   noun

   The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.

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.