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wood and other materials.—He went as if he had been 
the coffin that carried himfe'lf to his fepulchre. Sidney. 
One fate they have, 
The (hip their coffin, and the lea their grave. Waller. 
A mould of pafte for a pye : 
Of the pafte a coffiin will I rear, 
And make two pafties of your lhameful heads. Sbakejp. 
A paper cafe, in form of a cone, ufed by grocers. In 
farriery, the coffin of a horfe, is the whole hoof of the 
foot above the coronet, including the coffivz bone. The 
coffin bone is a fmall fpongy bone, incloied in the midtt 
of the hoof, and poftefting the whole form of the foot. 
See the article Farriery. 
To COF'FIN, <v. a, To inclofe in a coffin : 
Let me lie 
In pvilbn, and here be coffin'd, when I die. Donne. 
The fepulchral honours paid to the manes of departed 
friends in ancient times, are extremely curious. Their 
being put into a coffin, has been particularly confidered as 
a mark of the higheft diftinCtion. With us the pooreft 
people have their coffins. On the contrary, in the eaft, 
they are not at all made ufe of even in our times; Turks 
and Chriftians, asThevenot aflhres us, agree in this. The 
ancient Jews feem to have buried their dead in the fame 
manner; neither was the body of our Saviour put into a 
coffin ; nor that of Elilha, a Kings, xiii. whofe bones 
were touched by the corpfe that was let down a little after 
into his fepulchre. However, that coffins were anciently 
made u(e of in Egypt, all agree; and antique coffins of 
Itone, and fycomore-wood, are ftiil to be feen in that 
country. Maillet, however, informs us, that all were not 
inclofed in coffins who were laid in the Egyptian repofi- 
tories of the dead. The greateft part were (imply em¬ 
balmed and fwathed up, after which they laid them one 
by the fide of another without any ceremony. Some were 
even laid in thefe tombs without any embalming at all. 
It is probable, that each confiderable family had one of 
thofe burial-places to tbemfelves ; that the niches were 
defigned for the bodies of the heads of families ; and that 
thofe of their domeitics or (laves had no other care taken 
of them than the laying them on the ground, after hav¬ 
ing been embalmed. That coffins were not univerlally 
ufed in Egypt, is undoubted from thefe accounts ; and 
probably they were only perfons of diftinCtion who were 
buried in them. It is alio reafonable to believe, that in 
an era fo remote as that of Jofeph, they might be much 
lefs common than afterwards ; and confequently, that 
Jofeph’s being put in a coffin in Egypt might be men¬ 
tioned with a defign to exprefs the great honours which 
the Egyptians did him at his death, as well as in life, 
being interred after the mod fumptuous manner of the 
Egyptians, e?nbalmed, and put into a coffin. Agreeably to 
this, the Septuagint verfion, which was made for Egyp¬ 
tians, feems to reprefent coffins as a mark of grandeur. 
COF'FIN-MAKER, f. One whofe trade is to make 
coffins.—Where will be your fextons, coffin-makers, and 
plummets? Tatler. 
To the ftiame and difgrace of the police of London, it 
lias long been a practice with a defcription of men, vul¬ 
garly called refurredlion-vien, to open the graves of perfons 
recently interred, unfcrew the coffins, and fteal away the 
corpfes, for the purpofe of difleCtion. To the feelings of 
common humanity, but efpecially of relatives and friends, 
•this (pecies of theft mull: be highly diftreffing. The dead 
bodies are ufualiy carried away in Jacks, as well for the 
conveniency of being conveyed without (ufpicion in 
hackney-coaches, as to eftape detection, which the name 
on the coffin would often occafton. But to hop the pro¬ 
g-refs of thefe nightly depredations on the dead, Mr. Ga¬ 
briel Augiitie, of Cheaplide, London, has lately invented 
a coffin, which he contrives to fallen down by lprings, 
and by (crews that cannot be re-drawn, but which hold 
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in fo firm and fecure a manner, that that the coffin-lid 
cannot be removed or taken o(f. And in order to pre¬ 
vent the poffibility of -opening the joints of the coffin in 
any part, thin plates of iron are difpofed at all the join¬ 
ings and corners in the infide, and a drip of iron is let 
in all round the edges of the top and bottom, fo as to 
refill the teeth of any law, or chilfei, to cut it through. 
This ufeful invention has the fanCtion of the king’s let¬ 
ters patent, granted on the 5th of July, 1796. 
To COG, <v. a. [A word of uncertain original, derive^, 
by Skinner from coqucliner, Fr.] To flatter ; to wheedle ; 
to (both by adulatory Ipeeches : 
I’jl mountebank their loves, 
Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov’d 
Of all the trades in Rome. Sbakefpeare. 
To cog a die. To fecure it, fo as to direCt its fall; to 
falfify : 
But then my (ludy was to cog the dice, 
And dext’roufly to throw the lucky (ice. Dryden. 
To obtrude by falfehood.—Fuftian tragedies, or infipid 
comedies, have, by concerted applaufes, been cogged upon 
the town for mafterpieces. Dennis. 
To COG, -v.n. To lie; to wheedle: 
Now (lealeth he, now will he crave; 
And now will he cofen and cog. Tuffier. 
COG, f. The tooth of a wheel, by which it alts upon 
another wheel. A fmall boat. 
To COG, <v. a. To fix cogs in a wheel. 
CO'GA, an ifland of Abyffinia, in the lake of Dembea. 
COGARE'TO, a town of Italy, in the (tate of Genoa; 
nine miles eall-north-eaft of Savona. 
CO'GEAD, a lake of North America, fifty miles long, 
and ten broad. Lat. 66. o. N. Ion. 109. o. W. Greenwich. 
CO'GENCY,y. Force ; ftrength ; power of compelling; 
conviction.—Maxims and axioms, principles of fcience, 
becaufe they are ielf-evident, have been fuppofed innate ; 
although nobody ever (hewed the foundation of their 
clearnefs and cogency. Locke. 
CO'GENT, adj. \_cogens, Lat.] Forcible; refiftlefs; 
convincing; powerful; having the power to compel con¬ 
viction.—Such is the cogent force of nature. Prior , 
CO'GENTLY, ado). With refiftlefs force ; forcibly ; fo 
as to force convi&ion.—They forbid us to hearken to 
thofe proofs, as weak or fallacious, which our own ex- 
iftence, and the fenfible parts of the univerfe, offer fo 
clearly and cogently to our thoughts. Locke. 
COG'GER,/. A flatterer; a wheedler. 
COG'GESHALL, a town in the county of Eflex, forty- 
four miles from London, fituate on the river Blackwater, 
where is a manufacture of baizes and fays. Here is a 
market on Thurldays, and a fair on Wliit-Tuefday and 
Wednefday. Near this town, on the road fide, in a grotto 
under-ground, was found a vial with a lamp in it, covered 
with a Roman tile fourteen inches diameter, and al!o 
feme urns with allies and bones in them, of which one 
refembled coral, and had this infeription, Cocilli M. i. e. 
“ to the manes, or ghoft, of Cocillus.” Little Coggeftiall 
is fouth-eaft of the former, but on the other fide the river. 
It was once a diftinCt parifh, but now united to the for¬ 
mer. Weftfield is about three quarters of a mile from 
Coggeftiall. A brazen pot was ploughed up here, covered 
with white hard clay, which contained two earthen pots, 
the inmoft of which was covered with a (luff like velvet, 
tied with ftlk lace, and had in it Come whole bones, and 
many fmall pieces of bones, which were wrapped up in 
fine (ilk. 
COG'GESHALLE (Ralph),, a learned Englifti monk, 
who lived in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. He 
was of the Ciftercian order, and was efteemed a man of 
uncommon knowledge for his time. His furname was 
given him from the abbey over which he preiided.- Th* 
principal work of liis which is come down to us, is a 
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