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3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

Cof"fer*dam (?), n. A water- tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

Cof"fer*er (?), n. One who keeps treasures in a coffer. [R.]

Cof"fer*work` (?), n. (Masonry) Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

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.

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).

Cof"fin*less, a. Having no coffin.

Cof"fle (?; 115), n. [Ar. kafala caravan.] A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

Cog (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cogged (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Cogging.] [Cf. W. coegio to make void, to beceive, from coeg empty, vain, foolish. Cf. Coax, v. t.]

1. To seduce, or draw away, by adulation, artifice, or falsehood; to wheedle; to cozen; to cheat. [R.]

I'll . . . cog their hearts from them. Shak.

2. To obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.]

Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis

To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

Cog (?), v. i. To deceive; to cheat; to play false; to lie; to wheedle; to cajole.

For guineas in other men's breeches, Your gamesters will palm and will cog. Swift.

Cog, n. A trick or deception; a falsehood. Wm. Watson.

Cog, n. [Cf. Sw. kugge a cog, or W. cocos the cogs of a wheel.] 1. (Mech.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel.

2. (Carp.) (a) A kind of tenon on the end of a joist, received into a notch in a bearing timber, and resting flush with its upper surface. (b) A tenon in a scarf joint; a coak. Knight.