coffer 
coffer (kofer), v. t. [< coffer, n.] 1. To de- 
posit or lay up in a coffer : usually with up. 
Hut what (tlut [glutton] of tho gomes [men] may any good 
kaclien, 
He will kepen it hym-self & eofren it faste. 
I'iers Plowman's Crede (K. E. T. S.), 1. 68. 
Treasure, as a war might draw forth, so a peace succeed- 
ing might cu/i'f Hi'- Bacon, lien. VII. 
The aged man that coffers up his gold. 
,s'/i,iA-., Lucrece, 1. 855. 
2. To furnish or ornament with coffers, as a 
ceiling. 
The interior of the ceila was richly ornamented with 
niches and pilasters, and covered with a ribbed and cof- 
fered vault. J. Fergunton, Hist. Arch., I. 315. 
coffer-dam (kof 'er -dam), H. A water-tight 
wooden inclosure built in a body of water, in 
order to obtain a firm and dry foundation for 
bridges, piers, etc., by pumping out the water 
from its interior. It is usually formed of two or more 
rows of piles, driven close together and rising above the 
level of high water, with clay packed in between the rows. 
CofffT-dimi are sometimes built agaiust the sides of ves- 
sels, in order to make repairs below the water-line with- 
out having recourse to a dry-dock. 
cofferer (kof er-er), H. 1. One who lays up 
treasure in a coffer or chest ; one who hoards 
money. [Rare.] 
Ye fortune's cofferer* I ye pow'rs of wealth 1 
Young, Night Thoughts, ii. 550. 
2. Formerly, a principal officer of the royal 
household of England, who had oversight of 
the other officers of the court. He was next under 
the controller, aud was a member of the Privy Council. 
His duties are now performed by the lord steward aud 
paymaster of the household. 
Samuel Sandys . . . was raised to the house of peers, 
and made cofferer of the household. 
5. Dovxll, Taxes in England, II. 114. 
3f. A treasurer. 
Clown. Whither should this money be travelled? 
For. To the devil, I think. 
Clown. Tis with his cofferer I am certain, that's the 
usurer. Fletcher {and another), Fair Maid of the Inn, ii. 2. 
coffer-fish (kof er-fish), n. A fish of the genus 
Ostracion; a trunk-fish. 
coffering (kof 'er- ing), n. [Verbal n. of cof- 
fer, t;.] In mining, the operation of securing 
the shaft of a mine from the ingress of water 
by ramming in clay between the casing and the 
rock. 
coffershipt (kof'er-ship), n. [< coffer + -ship.] 
The office of treasurer, cash-keeper, or purser. 
His Majesty pleased the people greatly to put him from 
the cofership. Raleigh, Remains (Ord MS.). 
coffer-work (kofer-werk), n. 1. In arch., a 
surface ornamented with coffers. 2. In ma- 
sonry, rubble-work faced with stone. Coffer- 
wori celling. See ceiling. 
coffin (kof- or kof'in), . [Early mod. E. also 
cophin (def. 3), after the L.; < ME. cofin, coffin, 
a basket, a pie-crust (the sense of ' chest in 
which a dead human body is buried,' for which 
ME. cofer is found, does not belong to cofin in 
ME.), < OP. cofin = Pr. cofin = Sp. cofin, a 
basket, = It. cofano, formerly also cofino, cof- 
fino, a basket, trunk, coffer, < L. cophinus, a 
basket, < Gr. Kfyivof. a basket. See coffer, the 
same word in other ME. and mod. senses.] If. 
A basket. 
And thei token the relifs of broken metia twelve coffin* 
ful and of the flschis. >/,;,, Mark vi. 
2t. A mold of paste for a pie ; the crust of a pie. 
See custard-coffin. 
Of the paste a coffin I will rear. Shak., Tit. And., v. 2. 
If you spend 
The red-deer pies in your house, or sell them forth, sir, 
Cast so that I may have their coffins all 
Returned here, and piled up. 
B. Jonson, Staple of News, ii. 1. 
3. The chest, box, or case in which a dead hu- 
man body is placed for burial : usually made 
of wood or lead, but sometimes of stone or iron, 
or even of glass. 
Not a flower, not a flower sweet, 
On my black coffin let there be strown. 
Shak., T. N., ii. 4 (song). 
His [Saint Luke's] bones were brought from Constanti- 
nople in an yron coffin. Coryat, Crudities, 1. 178. 
4f. A paper twisted in the form of a cone, used 
as a bag by grocers; a cap or cornet. 5. In 
farriery, the hollow part of a horse's hoof, or 
the whole hoof below the coronet, including the 
coffin-bone. 6. In printing : (at) The wooden 
frame which inclosed the stone or bed of the 
old form of hand printing-press. (6) The frame 
which incloses an imposing-stone. 7. In mill- 
ing, one of the sockets in the eye of the runner, 
which receives the end of the driver. E. H. 
Knight. 8. In mining, old workings open to the 
day, where the ore was raised to the surface by 
1089 
the caat-after-cast method. [Cornwall.] 9. 
In ceraiii., same as cassette To put or drive a 
nail In one's coffin, to do anything that may tend to 
shorten one's days. 
coffin (kof- or kdfin), v. t. [< coffin, .] It. 
To cover with paste or crust. See coffin, n., 2 ; 
also extract under ba/ced-meat, 2. 
And cofflrid In crust, till now she was hoary. 
B. Jonnon, Masque of Gypstefl. 
2. To put or inclose in a coffin, as a corpse; 
hence, figuratively, to confine ; shut up. 
They Cuffiii him and place him in a roome richly fur- 
nished, and couer him with a sheet, in which they paint 
his portraiture. Purchat, Pilgrimage, p. 446. 
Myself will see him coffin'd and embalmed, 
And in one tomb rest with him. 
Beau, and Fl. (T), Faithful Friends, ill. 3. 
Tear forth the fathers of poor families 
Out of their beds, and coffin them alive 
In some kind clasping prison. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, L 1. 
Some nijll n'il in their cabins lie, equally 
GrievM that they are not dead, aud yet must die. 
Donne, The Storm. 
coffin-boat (kof in-bot), n. A sink-boat or bat- 
tery used in shooting wild fowl, especially 
ducks. See battery, if. [Chesapeake Bay.] 
coffin-bone (kof in-bon), n. The last phalanx 
of a horse's foot ; the distal phalangeal bone. 
See hoof. 
coffin-carrier (kof'in-kar'i-er), n. [Equiv. to 
pall-bearer, in allusion to its black back.] 
The great black-backed gull, Larus marinus. 
See blnckback, I. [Local, New Eng.] 
coffin-fish (kof in-fish), n. A fish of the family 
Ostraciontidce. The name is applied in New 
South Wales to Ostracion diaphanus and O. con- 
catenate, and to Aracana lenticularis. 
coffle (kof 1), . [Also written caufle and kaf- 
fle, and in the general sense ' caravan' also cafi- 
lah, caffilah, kafilah, kafila, < Ar. kdfila, > Pers. 
Hind. Kafila, a caravan : see kafila. ] A train or 
gang of slaves transported or marched for sale. 
Lundy was a constant witness of the horrors and cruel- 
ties of the [slave] traffic as the cofflei of chained victims 
were driven through the streets. 
Westminster Rets., CXXV. 871. 
coffre-fort (kof er-fort), n. [F., orig. coffrefort : 
coffre, a box : fort, < L. fortis, strong : see cof- 
fer, n.. and fortitude."] A strong box, especially 
one of a decorative character, generally small, 
and wrought either in steel or a similar mate- 
rial, for use in keeping money or valuable pa- 
pers ; an imitation of such a box in wood or 
the like. 
coffret (kof 'ret), n. [F., dim. of coffre, a coffer: 
see coffer, .] A casket, especially one of orna- 
mental design and character. 
Oblong box or cofret, old black Boule, height 6 inches, 
length 13 Inches. 5. K. Cat. Spec. Exhib., 1882, No. 818. 
coflyt, adv. [ME., also cofiich, < AS. cdfiice, 
quickly, valiantly, < cdf, quick: see co/and-fy 2 .] 
Quickly; impetuously. 
The Kynge with his keene ost [host] cojlich fights. 
Alimunder of Macedoine (E. E. T. .), L 297. 
COfound (ko-found'), v. t. [< co- 1 + found 2 .] 
To found together or at the same time. 
It [the steeple of St. Paul's] . . . was originally co-found- 
ed by King Ethelbert with the body of the Church. 
Fuller, Worthies, London, II. 346. 
cofounder (ko-foun'der), n. [< co- 1 +founderi.~\ 
A joint founder. 
cofret, n. A Middle English form of coffer. 
coft. Preterit and past participle of eoff 1 . 
kuggr; ML. cogga, coggo, cogo), a var. of ME. 
cokke, E. cock*, < OF. coque, a small boat : see 
cock*.'] 1. A small boat; a cockboat; acock. 
Jason and Ercules also 
That In a cogge to londe were ygo. 
Chaucer, Good Women, L 1481. 
Kaste ancres full kene into the water, 
Cogget with cablis cachyn to londe, 
And lay so on lone the long night oner. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1077. 
2. A trading-vessel; a galley; a ship in general. 
Coggez and crayers than crossez thaire mostez 
At the commandment of the kynge. 
Morte Arthure (E. E. T. S.), L 738. 
Agaynes hem comen her naveye, 
Cogges and dromoundes, many galeye. 
Richard Coer de Lion (Weber's Metr. Rom., II.), 1. 4783. 
cog 2 (kog), . [< ME. cog, cogge, kog = Sw. 
kugge, a cog; prob. of Celtic origin, < Gael. Ir. 
cog = W. cocas, pi. cocus, cocs, a cog. In def. 
5, cf. cock 6 , a notch.] 1. A tooth, catch, or pro- 
jection, usually one of a continuous series of 
such projections, on the periphery or the side 
cogency 
of a wheelj or on any part of a machine, which, 
on receiving motion, engages with a corre- 
sponding tooth or projection on another wheel 
or other part of the machine, and imparts mo- 
tion to it. See cut under cog-win < I. 
Cogge of a mylle, scariolnillinn. /'//, <i/t. Pare., p. 85. 
Please you to set the uatennill with the ivory ays in 't 
a-grliiding. Midilleton and Huitb'u, Spanish Uypsy, il. 1. 
2t. A mill-wheel ; a cog-wheeL 
The were l-cundur [kinder, that 1, more akin or like] to 
"'" frogge 
That sit at mulne [mill] under come. 
Owl and Nightingale, L 85. 
3. Iii mining, same as cAocA,-*,4. 4. The short 
handle of a scythe. [Prov. Bug.] 5. A kind 
of notch used in tailing joists or wall-plates. 
Cog and round, a device, consisting of a cog-wheel 
working into the rounds of a lantern-wheel, for raising a 
bucket from a well. 
COg 2 (kog), v. t. ; pret. and pp. cogged, ppr. cog- 
ging. [< ME. coggen; from the noun.] 1. To 
furnish with cogs. 
Coggyn a mylle, scarioballo. Prompt. Pan., p. 85. 
2. To wedge up so as to render steady or pre- 
vent motion : as, to cog the leg of a table which 
stands unevenly ; to cog a wheel of a carriage 
with a stone or a piece of wood. [Scotch.] 3. 
To harrow. [North. Eng.] Cogged respiration 
or breath-SOUnd. -See breath-sound. 
COg 3 , cogue (kog), n. [8c. (dim. eoggie, q. v.), 
< Gael, cogan, a small drinking-vessel, cog, a 
drink, = Ir. cogan, cog, a drink, = W. cogan, a 
bowl; prob. connected with OGael. coca, hol- 
low, empty, W. coeg, empty. Cf. cofl*.] 1. A 
circular wooden vessel used for holding milk, 
broth, etc. [Scotch and North. Eng.] 
Their drink is ale made of beer-malt, and tunned up in 
a small vessel called a cogue; after it lias stood a few 
hours, they drink it out of the cogue, vest and alL 
Mod. Account of Scotland, 1670 (Harl. Misc., VI. HI). 
For fear by foes that they should lose 
Their cogues of brose. 
Battle ofSherif-Muir (Child's Ballads, VIL 261). 
2. A measure used at some mills, containing 
the fourth part of a peck. 3. Intoxicating 
liquor. 
COg 3 , COgne (kog), v. t. ; pret. and pp. cogged, 
cogued, ppr. cogging, coguing. [Sc., from the 
noun.] To empty into a wooden vessel. 
COg 4 (kog), v. ; pret. and pp. cogged, ppr. cogging. 
[Not found in ME.; perhaps from W. coegio, 
make void, trick, pretend, < coeg, empty, vain, 
saucy, silly, foolish : see cog 3 . Cf. cokes', coax.'] 
1. trans. 1. To flatter; wheedle; seduce or win 
by adulation or artifice. 
I'll mountebank their loves, 
Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd 
Of all the trades in Rome. Slink., Cor., iii. 2. 
With such poor fetches to cog a laughter from us. 
Milton, Colasterion. 
2. To obtrude or thrust by falsehood or decep- 
tion; foist; palm: usually with in or on. 
Fustian tragedies . . . have by concerted applause been 
cogged upon the town for masterpieces. Dennit. 
3. To adapt (a die) for cheating, by loading it, 
so as to direct its fall : as, to play with cogged 
dice. 
I know none breathing, but will cogge a dye 
For twentie thousand double pistolets. 
flu ruin n, Antonio and Mellida, I., iii. 1. 
II. intrans. 1. To wheedle; flatter; dissimu- 
late. 
Cog, lie, flatter, and face 
Four ways in Court to win men grace. 
An-liain, The Scholemaster, p. 54. 
For they will cog so when they wish to use men, 
With "Pray be cover'd, sir," "I beseech you, sit." 
Chapman, Gentleman Usher, iii 1. 
Mistress Ford, I cannot cog, I cannot prate. 
Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 3. 
2. To cheat, especially by means of loaded dice. 
For guineas in other men's breeches 
Your gamesters will palm and will cog. 
Swift. 
COg 4 (kog), n. [< cog*, .] 1. A trick or de- 
ception. 
Letting it pass for an ordinary cog upon them. 
Bp. Wattm. 
2. ///. Loaded dice. 
It were a hard matter for me to get my dinner that day 
wherein my master had not sold a dozen of devices, a case 
of cogs, and a suit of shifts in the morning. 
Greene, James IV., il 1. 
COg-bells (kog'belz), n.nl. [Cf. equiv. E. dial. 
conkabell.] Icicles. [Prov. Eng.] 
cogence (ko' jens), n. [< cogent: see-ence.] Co- 
gency. [Rare.] 
An argument of cogence. Coicper, Conversation, L 293. 
cogency (ko'jen-si), n. [< cogent: see -ency.] 
Power of proving or of producing belief ; the 
quality of being highly probable or convincing; 
