Coffin
['kɒfɪn] or ['kɔfɪn]
Definition
(noun.) box in which a corpse is buried or cremated.
(verb.) place into a coffin; 'her body was coffined'.
Checker: Victoria--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
(n.) A basket.
(n.) A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.
(n.) A conical paper bag, used by grocers.
(n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
(v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Checker: Rudolph
Definition
n. the coffer or chest in which a dead body is enclosed.—v.t. to place within a coffin.—n. Coff′in-ship a ship that is unsound and likely to prove fatal to those in it.—Drive a nail in one's coffin to do something tending to hasten death or ruin.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
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. To see your own coffin in a dream, business defeat and domestic sorrow may be expected. 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. To see your corpse in a coffin, signifies brave efforts will be crushed in defeat and ignominy, 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. Quarrels with the opposite sex is also indicated. You will remorsefully consider your conduct toward a friend.
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Examples
- There is no coffin in that tomb; and may it be many, many years, before another name is placed above it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Mr. Vholes gives it a rap, and it sounds as hollow as a coffin. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Those words fell on his heart like clods upon a coffin. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Promise, he said, that you will put this into my coffin with your own hand; and that you will see that no other hand touches it afterwards. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- I'll swear I saw coffin written in every page of the book in large black letters,--aye, and they carried one close to me, in the streets to-night. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He laid his hand upon the coffin, and mechanically adjusting the pall with which it was covered, motioned them onward. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- It gave Mr. Justice Coffin no pleasure to hear Georgy cut into the conversation and spoil his stories. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Other accounts make Charles wear a shroud and lie in the coffin, remaining there alone until the last mourner had left the chapel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I distinguished the small coffin of my babe. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- What I stand to, is, that he knows well wot that there Cly was never in that there coffin. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- His embarkation was clandestine; and if we may credit a tale of the Princess Anna, he passed the hostile sea closely secreted in a coffin. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It must have cost a sight of money--the coffin, in particular, being most beautiful. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So _you_ put him in his coffin? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- But now I think o't my shadder last night seemed just the shape of a coffin. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- So do nuns, with their close cell, their iron lamp, their robe strait as a shroud, their bed narrow as a coffin. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So are the coffins,' replied the beadle: with precisely as near an approach to a laugh as a great official ought to indulge in. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Coffins, where? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- You don't mind sleeping among the coffins, I suppose? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- In commercial phrase, coffins were looking up; and, in the course of a few weeks, Oliver acquired a great deal of experience. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- The atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- No more jolly old coffins, Charlotte, but a gentleman's life for me: and, if yer like, yer shall be a lady. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Longer coffins were never made in the whole country of South Wessex, and 'tis said that poor George's knees were crumpled up a little e'en as 'twas. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Checker: Truman