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.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?
--Shak.
Devotion is not coffined in a cell. --John Hall
(1646).