Stone+coffin
1Coffin Stone — The site today. The topmost stone was placed there recently by the farmer and the actual Coffin Stone is just visible beneath. The Coffin Stone is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent.… …
2coffin — coffinless, adj. /kaw fin, kof in/, n. 1. the box or case in which the body of a dead person is placed for burial; casket. 2. the part of a horse s foot containing the coffin bone. 3. Print. a. the bed of a platen press. b. the wooden frame… …
3Coffin — /kaw fin, kof in/, n. 1. Levi, 1798 1877, U.S. abolitionist leader. 2. Robert P(eter) Tristram, 1892 1955, U.S. poet, essayist, and biographer. * * * the receptacle in which a corpse is confined. The Greeks and Romans disposed of their dead …
4Assian stone — Sarcophagus Sar*coph a*gus, n.; pl. L. {Sarcophagi}, E. {Sarcophaguses}. [L., fr. Gr. sarkofa gos, properly, eating flesh; sa rx, sa rkos, flesh + fagei^n to eat. Cf. {Sarcasm}.] 1. A species of limestone used among the Greeks for making coffins …
5The Glass Coffin — is a German fairy tale collected by the Brothers Grimm, tale number 163. [Jacob and Wilheim Grimm, Household Tales , [http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/authors/grimms/163glasscoffin.html The Glass Coffin ] ] Andrew Lang included it in The Green… …
6Tris Coffin — Nombre real Tristram Coffin Nacimiento 13 de agosto de 1909 …
7Howard A. Coffin — Howard Aldridge Coffin (* 11. Juni 1877 in Middleborough, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; † 28. Februar 1956 in Washington D.C.) war ein US amerikanischer Politiker. Zwischen 1947 und 1949 vertrat er den Bundesstaat Michigan im US… …
8Treetrunk coffin — A treetrunk coffin, hollowed out of a single massive log, is a feature of some prehistoric elite burials over a wide range especially in Northern Europe aa far east as the Balts, who abandoned cremation about the first century CE, and in central… …
9Mort stone — Mort Mort, n. [F., death, fr. L. mors, mortis.] 1. Death; esp., the death of game in the chase. [1913 Webster] 2. A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. [1913 Webster] The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W.… …
10lich stone — noun : a stone on which to rest a coffin at the lych gate * * * a large stone on which to rest a coffin momentarily at the entrance to a cemetery. [1860 65] …
