Casket: Definition and part of speech

Casket

  1. v. t. To put into, or preserve in, a casket.
  2. n. A small chest or box, esp. of rich material or ornamental character, as for jewels, etc.
  3. n. A kind of burial case.
  4. n. Anything containing or intended to contain something highly esteemed
  5. n. The body.
  6. n. The tomb.
  7. n. A book of selections.
  8. n. A gasket. See Gasket.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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