Cŏf'fin1, n.
n. [O. Fr. coffin, basket, coffer, Pr. coffin, Sp. coffin, cofino, cofina, cuevano, cuevino, It. cofano, from Lat. cophinus. See COFFER.]
Sense 1. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
My heart is in the coffin there with Cæsar. Shak.
His body was ... laid with great privacy under the nave of Westminster Abbey. Only three mourners followed the coffin. Macaulay.
Sense 2. The raised crust of a pie or other articles of pastry.
Of the paste a coffin I will rear. Shak.
Sense 3. A paper case, in the form of a cone, used by grocers. Nares.
Sense 4. (Far.) The hollow part of a horse’s hoof; or the whole hoof below the coronet, including the coffin-bone, which is a small, spongy bone in the midst of the hoof. Farrier’s Dict.
Sense 5. (Print.) A wooden frame inclosing the stone on which the form is imposed.