c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 62 Þei gedriden and filden twelve coffynes of relif of fyve barly loves.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 2 Kings x. 7 Thei..slewen the seventy men, and putten the hevedis of hem in cofynes.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 15 Gedrenge..the fragmentes of the cophinnes remanent.

c1480 (a1400) St. Matthias 49 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 223 Of spechis a cowyne þa mad til hyme met.

1538 T. Elyot Dict. Tibin, a baskette or coffyn made of wickers or bulle rushes, or barke of a tree: suche one was Moyses put into.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 135 Of þat þat was in cofre, & in his cofines, He mad his testament.

c1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 672 In chistes smale or coffyns hem doo.

c1425 Wyntoun Cron. viii. viii. 19 A Cophyn of Evore.

1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 125 Divers cofyns of fyrre wherein the Kinges books were conveyed.

1552 in Surrey Archæol. Coll. (1869) 4 48 iiij torches with ij long coffins for them.

1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. cij Make a hollow Cube, or Cubik coffen, of Copper, Siluer, Tynne, or Wood.

1589 J. Rider Bibliotheca Scholastica 290 A Coffin for a book,..Loculamentum.

1577 J. Frampton tr. N. Monardes Three Bookes ii. f. 44^v The smoke of this Hearbe, the whiche thei receaue at the mouth through certain coffins, suche as the Grocers do vse to put in their Spices.

1594 H. Plat Jewell House 55 Coffyns of paper, such as the Confit-makers vse.

1634 J. Bate Myst. Nature & Art 70 To make the coffins [for fireworks], you must take paper, parchment, or strong canuasse, [and] rowle it hard upon a rowler.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 52 I took five coffins of filtrating paper.

1772 Monro Min. Waters in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 23 I..examined the coffin through which the salts..had passed.

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing 173 These conical papers are called coffins.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 23 Coffin, a little conical bag, made of paper, to put sorts in—similar to those made by grocers for sugar, etc.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 411 From the pasterne downe to the coffin of the hooue.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) Hoof-Loosning, a Dissolution or dividing of the Horn or Coffin of a Horse's Hoof from the Flesh, at the Setting on of the Cronet.

1785 Sportsman's Dict. (ed. 3) in E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Coffin [the hoof of a horse, that is], all the horn that appears when he has his foot set on the ground.

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. ix. 372 A Coffin made of Clay, fitted to the Iron intended to be hardened.

1738 G. Smith tr. Laboratory iv. 102 Take some Potters Clay, to make a Coffin round your Plant.

1756 Dict. Arts & Sci. at Porcelain Each piece of Porcelain..is disposed, in the furnace, in its separate case, or coffin.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 346 Fig. 11, 12 and 13. are the Moth, Catterpillar, and Coffin.

1712 Philos. Trans. 1710–12 (Royal Soc.) 27 346 A very strange hairy [Catterpillar] with a Pea-like Coffin.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Adjusting Florists..say, I will adjust a Pink; and to do this..each of [the petals] shall be so dispos'd, that the Pink becomes larger thereby, because the Extremities of their Coffins have been a little curv'd.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Coffin..one of the sockets in the eye of the runner, which receives the ends of the driver. The term is applied to other depressions, especially to such as are hollowed or chipped out.

c1720 W. Gibson Farriers New Guide i. vi. 108 The Coffin-bone..is so called from its Hollowness.

1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 522/2 A semicircular disc, resembling that of the coffin-bone of the Horse.

1625 Par. Reg. St. Margaret's, Durham Mrs. Elsebeth Hall..dyd give..for the use of the poor..a cofyn clothe.

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. D4 One of the new-found trade of Coffin-cutters.

1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1539/1 An other would haue made a coffin dam, wherof the cost would haue beene infinite.

1611 in J. Nichols Illustr. Antient Times Eng. (1797) 30 Work done about the two north gates in the church-yard and about the coffin-house being uncovered with the great wind.

1683 A. Snape Anat. Horse iv. xix. 181 The Coffin-joint on which the Hoof grows.

1843 W. Youatt Horse (new ed.) vii. 157 A strangely formidable disease..called ‘coffin-joint lameness’.

c1865 G. Gore in J. Wylde Circle of Sci. I. 223/2 Buckles, coffin-nails, hooks-and-eyes.

1888 Texas Siftings 18 Feb. 8/1 A youth..puffed at an ill-smelling coffin nail.

1901 A. G. Robinson Philippines 263 For a package containing thirty ‘coffin-nails’ the price was three and a half cents, American money.

1928 P. G. Wodehouse Money for Nothing ii. 34 Most of these birds [sc. invalids in a sanatorium] would give their soul for a coffin-nail.

1967 ‘L. Egan’ Nameless Ones x. 118 Let me pay for my own coffin nails.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 68 Coffin-plates, elm-chips, bright-headed nails.

1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel I. 159 The coffin-spark burning my holiday gown.

1845 Ecclesiologist 4 17 Many coffin-stones may be seen in the pavement where no coffin would be found..underneath.

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. ii. 15 A little round table, curiously formed of an old coffin-stool, with a deal top nailed on.

1912 J. H. Breasted Relig. Anc. Egypt viii. 273 Written on the inner surfaces of the heavy cedar coffins..are found..mortuary texts... These texts as a class are sometimes designated as the Book of the Dead... I have for convenience termed them Coffin Texts, a designation drawn from the place in which they are found, and thus parallel with the Pyramid Texts.

1947 I. E. S. Edwards Pyramids of Egypt v. 153 The texts..were written on the interior surfaces of the rectangular wooden coffins used in that period—a fact which has caused them to become known as the Coffin Texts.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. xi. 121 In the middle..stood a Coffin-tomb, about three Foot high, and seven Foot long.

1883 J. D. Hooker Let. 17 June in L. Huxley Life & Lett. J. D. Hooker (1918) II. xl. 251 We have ascertained the origin of Chinese Cassia, of the Star Anise, and of the Coffin wood.

1909 R. Kipling Actions & Reactions 42 We ain't goin' to lay any axe-iron to coffinwood here.

1564 Vestry Minutes St. Helen's Bishopsgate 5 Mar. None shall be bury'd within the church, unless the dead corpse be coffined in wood.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 173.

1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iii. v. 97 Men whom he..had coffin'd up.

1823 J. Galt Entail I. xxxv. 304 He assisted..in the ceremonial of the coffining.

1861 Sat. Rev. 12 253/1 Sometimes they coffined their dead in boats or in the trunks of trees.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 89^v [Quinces] are best kept coffened betwixt two hollowe Tyles, well closed on euery side with clay.

1607 B. Jonson Volpone i. i. sig. B^v Coffin them aliue, In some kinde, clasping prison. View more context for this quotation

1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Dict. in Compl. Gard'ner sig. Aiii To Coffin themselves, is said of Flowers that shrivel up and dry away in their Buds without flowing or spreading.

1807 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 1st Ser. (ed. 5) I. 10 The Tomb of Books when the possessor will not communicate them, and coffins them up in the cases of his Library.

1862 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip I. v. 72 The cards are coffined in their boxes.

a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 86 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) A reverend painted Lady was brought, And coffin'd in crust, till now she was hoary.

1884 Leisure Hour June 374/2 Game was often coffined, so was fish.

1599 R. Fitch in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (new ed.) II. i. 263 They keepe the dead in the house..coffined.

1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iii. ii. sig. F Departed soules, That lodge in coffin'd trunkes.

1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 8 615 On meal-ark lid he rests his coffin'd ware.

1854 A. P. Stanley Hist. Memorials Canterbury (1857) iii. 134 The coffined body lay in state at Westminster.