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One who keeps treasures in a coffer. [R.]

Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

dead human body is inclosed for burial. They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin. Gen. 1. 26.

Having no coffin.

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

That which cuts off or shortens, as a nearer passage or road.

To decay and perish through excessive moisture.

To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

A revolving cylinder, or a vibrating bar with teeth, in a carding machine, which doffs, or strips off, the cotton from the cards. Ure.

To put in a coffin. [R.]

invest with a fief or fee; to invest (any one) with a freehold estate by the process of feoffment. Mozley & W.

The act of enfeoffing.

From office; by virtue, or as a consequence, of an office; officially.

Proceeding from office or authority.

Not prescribed by official duty.

Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Feoffed; p. pr. & vb. n.. Feoffing.] Etym: [OE. feffen, OF. feffer, fieffer, F. fieffer, fr. fief fief; cf. LL. feoffare, fefare. See Fief.] (Law)

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed.

The grant of a feud or fee.