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Hearsecloth :: Hearsecloth (n.) A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall.

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

Pincoffin :: Pincoffin (n.) A commercial preparation of garancin, yielding fine violet tints..

Scoffingly :: Scoffingly (adv.) In a scoffing manner.

Lie :: Lie (adj.) To rest extended on the ground, a bed, or any support; to be, or to put one's self, in an horizontal position, or nearly so; to be prostate; to be stretched out; -- often with down, when predicated of living creatures; as, the book lies on the table; the snow lies on the roof; he lies in his coffin..

Pastern :: Pastern (n.) The part of the foot of the horse, and allied animals, between the fetlock and the coffin joint. See Illust. of Horse..

Coffin :: Coffin (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone..

Unplumb :: Unplumb (v. t.) To deprive of lead, as of a leaden coffin..

Pumiced :: Pumiced (a.) Affected with 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..

Vernaculous :: Vernaculous (a.) Scoffing; scurrilous.

Sarcophagus :: Sarcophagus (n.) 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..

Chest :: Chest (n.) A coffin.

Coffin :: Coffin (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin..

Coffining :: Coffining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Coffi.

Pall :: Pall (n.) A large cloth, esp., a heavy black cloth, thrown over a coffin at a funeral; sometimes, also, over a tomb..

Jeering :: Jeering (a.) Mocking; scoffing.

Kist :: Kist (n.) A chest; hence, a coffin..

Scoptical :: Scoptical (a.) Jesting; jeering; scoffing.

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) That part on either side of a horse's hoof between the toe and heel, being the side of the coffin..

Scoffing :: Scoffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Scof.

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