coffin Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
    casket.
  2. verb place into a coffin
    • her body was coffined

WordNet

Cof"fin noun
Etymology
OE., a basket, receptacle, OF. cofin, fr. L. cophinus. See Coffer, n.
Definitions
  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.
Cof"fin transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Coffined ; present participle & verbal noun Coffining
Definitions
  1. 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).

Webster 1913