Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Coffin \Cof"fin\ (?; 115), n. [OE., a basket, receptacle, OF.
   cofin, fr. L. cophinus. See {Coffer}, n.]
   1. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for
      burial.

            They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a
            coffin.                               --Gen. 1. 26.

   2. A basket. [Obs.] --Wyclif (matt. xiv. 20).

   3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

            Of the paste a coffin I will rear.    --Shak.

   4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] --Nares.

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

   {Coffin bone}, the foot bone of the horse and allied animals,
      inclosed within the hoof, and corresponding to the third
      phalanx of the middle finger, or toe, of most mammals.

   {Coffin joint}, the joint next above the coffin bone.