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.
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).
