Word Meanings - COFFER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. (more info) 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 2. Fig.:

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A panel deeply recessed in the ceiling of a vault, dome, or portico; a caisson. (more info) 1. A casket, chest, or trunk; especially, one used for keeping money or other valuables. Chaucer. In ivory coffers I have stuffed my crowns. Shak. 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.

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• RECESS
  A sinus. (more info) 1. A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides. Every degree of ignorance being so far a recess and degradation from rationality. South. My recess hath given them confidence that I may be
• TRUNKED
  Having a trunk. Thickset with strong and well-trunked trees. Howell.
• OTHERGUISE; OTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• RECESSED
  1. Having a recess or recesses; as, a recessed arch or wall. 2. Withdrawn; secluded. "Comfortably recessed from curious impertinents." Miss Edgeworth. Recessed arch , one of a series of arches constructed one within another so as to correspond
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• TRUNKFUL
  As much as a trunk will hold; enough to fill a trunk.
• TRUNK PISTON
  In a single-acting engine, an elongated hollow piston, open at the end, in which the end of the connecting rod is pivoted. The piston rod, crosshead and stuffing box are thus dispensed with.
• PANELWORK
  Wainscoting.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• PANELING
  A forming in panels; panelwork.
• RECESSIONAL
  Of or pertaining to recession or withdrawal. Recessional hymn, a hymn sung in a procession returning from the choir to the robing room.
• RECESSION
  The act of receding or withdrawing, as from a place, a claim, or a demand. South. Mercy may rejoice upon the recessions of justice. Jer. Taylor.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• CHESTNUT
  The edible nut of a forest tree of Europe and America. Commonly two or more of the nuts grow in a prickly bur. 2. The tree itself, or its light, coarse-grained timber, used for ornamental work, furniture, etc. 3. A bright brown color, like that
• CHESTERLITE
  A variety of feldspar found in crystals in the county of Chester, Pennsylvania.
• STUFFING
  Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
• KEEP
  k, AS.c to keep, regard, desire, await, take, betake; cf. AS. 1. To care; to desire. I kepe not of armes for to yelp . Chaucer. 2. To hold; to restrain from departure or removal; not to let go of; to retain in one's power or possession; not to
• OTHER
  Either; -- used with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.
• VAULT
  An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy. The long-drawn aisle and fretted vault. Gray. 2. An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
• NOTOTHERIUM
  An extinct genus of gigantic herbivorous marsupials, found in the Pliocene formation of Australia.
• IMPANELMENT
  The act or process of impaneling, or the state of being impaneled.
• ISOGEOTHERMAL; ISOGEOTHERMIC
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or marking, isogeotherms; as, an isogeothermal line or surface; as isogeothermal chart. -- n.
• SAFE-KEEPING
  The act of keeping or preserving in safety from injury or from escape; care; custody.
• SMOTHER
  Etym: 1. To destroy the life of by suffocation; to deprive of the air necessary for life; to cover up closely so as to prevent breathing; to suffocate; as, to smother a child. 2. To affect as by suffocation; to stife; to deprive of air by a thick
• ISOTHEROMBROSE
  A line connecting or marking points on the earth's surface, which have the same mean summer rainfall.
• ANOTHER-GUESS
  Of another sort. It used to go in another-guess manner. Arbuthnot.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• UNMOTHERED
  Deprived of a mother; motherless.
• OUTKEEPER
  An attachment to a surveyor's compass for keeping tally in chaining.
• ISOTHERMAL
  Relating to equality of temperature. Having reference to the geographical distribution of temperature, as exhibited by means of isotherms; as, an isothermal line; an isothermal chart. Isothermal line. An isotherm. A line drawn on a diagram
• EEL-MOTHER
  The eelpout.
• ORCHESTRAL
  Of or pertaining to an orchestra; suitable for, or performed in or by, an orchestra.
• ISOTHERMOBATHIC
  Of or pertaining to an isothermobath; possessing or indicating equal temperatures in a vertical section, as of the ocean.
• ORCHESTRIC
  Orchestral.