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ving creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin. The watchful traveler . . . Lay down again, and closed his weary eyes. Dryden.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

or lamb that has died of disease. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Carlyle. -- Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] H. Taylor.

A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb. Warriors carry the warrior's pall. Tennyson.

One of those who attend the coffin at a funeral; -- so called from the pall being formerly carried by them.

The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse.

th a kind of chronic laminitis in which there is a growth of soft spongy horn between the coffin bone and the hoof wall. The disease is called pumiced foot, or pumice foot.

the coronet, in a horse's foot, resulting from inflammation of the tissues investing the coffin bone.

With scoffing or insulting language.

A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins, which was so called because it consumed within a few weeks the flesh of bodies deposited in it. It is otherwise called lapis Assius, or Assian stone, and is said to have been found at Assos, a city of Lycia. Holland.

The act of scoffing; scoffing conduct; mockery. Holinshed.

Jesting; jeering; scoffing. [Obs.] South. -- Scop"tic*al*ly, adv. [Obs.]

A coarse kind of coffin; also, a thin interior coffin inclosed in a more substantial one. Knight.

A morbid growth or deposit of bony matter and at the sides of the coronet and coffin bone of a horse. J. H. Walsh.

To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin. [R.] Burke.

Scoffing; scurrilous. [A Latinism. Obs.] "Subject to the petulancy of every vernaculous orator." B. Jonson.

A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.

bore or pierce, as with a wimble. "A foot soldier . . . wimbled also a hole through said coffin." Wood.