| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb coffin.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (coffin) | 1. Place into a coffin; "her body was coffined".[Wordnet]. 2. To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: coffining, coffined, coffins, coffiner, coffiners, coffiningly and coffinedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "COFFINING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1894. (references) |
Specialty Definition: coffin
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] The chest or box in which a dead human body is buried, or deposited in a vault.. | 2: [Noun] A mold of paste for a pie.. | 3: [Noun] A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers.. | 4: [Noun] In farriery, the hollow part of a horses hoof; or the whole hoof above the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small spungy bone in the midst of the hoof, and possessing the whole form of the hoof.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Bible | 1: Coffin used in Gen. 50:26 with reference to the burial of Joseph. Here, it means a mummy-chest. The same Hebrew word is rendered "chest" in 2 Kings 12:9, 10. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | 2: See Burial. (references) | |
| Building & Civil Engineering | A U-shaped box used in laying tile drains through quicksand. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Dream Interpretation | 1: Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated. You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend. 2: This dream is unlucky. You will, if you are a farmer, see your crops blasted and your cattle lean and unhealthy. To business men it means debts whose accumulation they are powerless to avoid. To the young it denotes unhappy unions and death of loved ones. 3: To dream of a coffin moving of itself, denotes sickness and marriage in close conjunction. Sorrow and pleasure intermingled. Death may follow this dream, but there will also be good. 4: To dream that you find yourself sitting on a coffin in a moving hearse, denotes desperate if not fatal illness for you or some person closely allied to you. 5: To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy. 6: To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... | ||
| Environment | Thick-walled container for transporting radioactive materials. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: "Of the paste a coffin will I rear.' 2: Coffin A raised crust, like the lid of a basket. Hence Shakespeare speaks of a "custard coffin" (Taming of the Shrew, iv. 3). Mahomet's Coffin) 3: Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, v. 2. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | A. Corn. An old, open-mine working, in which the ore is cast up from platform to platform. See also:goffan b. A heavily shielded shipping cask for spent fuel elements. Some coffinsweigh as much as 75 st (68 t). (references) | ||
| Nuclear Energy & Physics | Shielded container used to store or transport radioactive material. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | A coffin (which some call a casket) is a box used for the display and burial or cremation of a cadaver. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Noun] An oblong closed box in which a dead person is buried. (references) | 2: [Verb] (transitive) To place in a coffin. 2007: The chest in which she is coffined washes ashore and is brought to the Lord Cerimon — Barbara Everett, ‘Making and Breaking in Shakespeare's Romances', London Review of Books 29:6, p. 21. (references) | |
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