Chapter Coessentiality to Cognati of C by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

2. Fig.: Treasure or funds; — usually in the plural.

He would discharge it without any burden to the queen's coffers, for honor sake.
Bacon.

Hold, here is half my coffer.
Shak.

3. (Arch.) A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson.

4. (Fort.) 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.

5. The chamber of a canal lock; also, a caisson or a cofferdam.

Coffer dam. (Engin.) See Cofferdam, in the Vocabulary. — Coffer fish. (Zoöl.) See Cowfish.

Coffer
(Cof"fer), v. t.

1. To put into a coffer. Bacon.

2. (Mining.) To secure from leaking, as a shaft, by ramming clay behind the masonry or timbering. Raymond.

3. To form with or in a coffer or coffers; to furnish with a coffer or coffers.

Cofferdam
(Cof"fer*dam) n. A water- tight inclosure, as of piles packed with clay, from which the water is pumped to expose the bottom (of a river, etc.) and permit the laying of foundations, building of piers, etc.

Cofferer
(Cof"fer*er) n. One who keeps treasures in a coffer. [R.]

Cofferwork
(Cof"fer*work`) n. (Masonry) Rubblework faced with stone. Knight.

Coffin
(Cof"fin) n. [OE., a basket, receptacle, OF. cofin, fr. L. cophinus. See Coffer, n.]

1. The case in which a dead human body is inclosed for burial.

They embalmed him [Joseph], and he was put in a coffin.
Gen. 1. 26.

2. A basket. [Obs.] Wyclif

3. A casing or crust, or a mold, of pastry, as for a pie.

Of the paste a coffin I will rear.
Shak.

4. A conical paper bag, used by grocers. [Obs.] Nares.

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.