coffin
121Coffin — 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 …
122coffin — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. casket, pine box, sarcophagus. See interment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. box, casket, sarcophagus, pine box, catafalque, pall, burial urn, funerary urn, funerary vase, funerary box, mummy case, ossuary;… …
123coffin — cof|fin [ kafın ] noun count ** a long box in which a dead person is buried => NAIL1 …
124coffin — [14] Greek kóphinus meant ‘basket’. It passed via Latin cophinus into Old French, where it split into two words. Cofin came to mean ‘box, chest’ as well as ‘basket’, and it was with these senses that it was borrowed into English. The specific… …
125coffin — cof·fin || kÉ’fɪn n. casket, box in which a dead person is buried …
126coffin — n casket, pall, box, sarcophagus, Scot, and North Eng. kist, Sl. wooden overcoat or kimono …
127coffin — cof·fin …
128coffin — [ˈkɒfɪn] noun [C] a box in which a dead person is buried …