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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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COFFIN, n.
COFFIN, v.t. To put in or inclose in a coffin.
The
case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.
They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a
coffin. A basket.
[Obs.] Wyclif
(matt. xiv. 20). A casing or crust, or a mold, of
pastry, as for a pie.
Of the paste a coffin I will rear. A conical paper bag, used by
grocers.
[Obs.] Nares. 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. To inclose in, or as in, a
coffin.
Would'st thou have laughed, had I come
coffined home? Devotion is not coffined in a cell. | ||||||||