1. [n]  box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
2. [v]  place into a coffin; "her body was coffined"

1. \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.
   
   

2. \Cof"fin\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coffined}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Coffining}.]
   To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
   
         Would'st thou have laughed, had I come coffined home?
                                                  --Shak.
   
         Devotion is not coffined in a cell.      --John Hall
                                                  (1646).
   
   

used in Gen. 50:26 with reference to the burial of Joseph. Here, it means a mummy-chest. The same Hebrew word is rendered "chest" in 2 Kings 12:9, 10.