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

Having no coffin.

To put in a coffin. [R.]

A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints.

In a scoffing manner. Broome.

the fewness of their enemies, came down amain. Milton. That striping giant, ill-bred and scoffing, shouts amain. T. Parker.

when "returned to dust" by natural decay. Their martyred blood and ashes sow. Milton. The coffins were broken open. The ashes were scattered to the winds. Macaulay.

blic burial." Shak. Now to glorious burial slowly borne. Tennyson. Burial case, a form of coffin, usually of iron, made to close air- tight, for the preservation of a dead body. -- Burial ground, a piece of ground selected and set apart for a place of buriials, and consecrated to such use by religious ceremonies. --…

A coffin. [Obs.] He is now dead and mailed in his cheste. Chaucer.

fruit the size of a small orange, containing a soft, yellowish, edible pulp. -- Custard coffin, pastry, or crust, which covers or coffins a custard [Obs.] Shak.

To destroy; to make null. [Obs.] [Profane scoffing] doth . . . deface the reverence of religion. Bacon. For all his power was utterly defaste [defaced]. Spenser.

Immediately after; as soon as. Directly he stopped, the coffin was removed. Dickens.

A framework of wood or metal placed over the coffin or tomb of a deceased person, and covered with a pall; also, a temporary canopy bearing wax lights and set up in a church, under which the coffin was placed during the funeral ceremonies. [Obs.] Oxf. Gloss.

A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.

Irreligious; scoffing.

To put in, or as in, a hearse or coffin. Shak.

To utter sarcastic or scoffing reflections; to speak with mockery or derision; to use taunting language; to scoff; as, to jeer at a speaker. But when he saw her toy and gibe and jeer. Spenser.

Mocking; scoffing. -- n.

A chest; hence, a coffin. [Scot. & Prov. End.] Jamieson. Halliwell.

Inflammation of the laminæ or fleshy plates along the coffin bone of a horse; founder. Youatt.