COFFER
\kˈɒfə], \kˈɒfə], \k_ˈɒ_f_ə]\
Definitions of COFFER
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
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A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
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The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
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To put into a coffer.
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To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
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To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
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A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
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Fig.: Treasure or funds; - usually in the plural.
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A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.
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A trench dug in the bottom of a dry moat, and extending across it, to enable the besieged to defend it by a raking fire.
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The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.
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To put into a coffer.
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To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering.
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To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.
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A small opening; a small depression or cavity; a space, as a vacant space between the cells of plants, or one of the spaces left among the tissues of the lower animals, which serve in place of vessels for the circulation of the body fluids, or the cavity or sac, usually of very small size, in a mucous membrane.
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Fig.: Treasure or funds; - usually in the plural.
By Noah Webster.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald