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.
3. (Mining.) One of the rough pillars of stone or coal left to support the roof of a mine.
Cog, v. t. To furnish with a cog or cogs.
Cogged breath sound (Auscultation), a form of interrupted respiration, in which the interruptions are very even, three or four to each inspiration. Quain.
Cog, n. [OE. cogge; cf. D. kog, Icel. kuggr Cf. Cock a boat.] A small fishing boat. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Co"gen*cy (?), n. [See Cogent.] The quality of being cogent; power of compelling conviction; conclusiveness; force.
An antecedent argument of extreme cogency.
J. H. Newman.