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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A coffin.
  2. n. A small case or chest, as for jewels and other valuables.
  3. v. To enclose in a case, chest, or coffin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. See casquet.
  2. n. A small chest or box for jewels or other small articles.
  3. n. A fanciful name applied to a book consisting of a number of selected literary or musical pieces: as, a casket of literary gems.
  4. n. A coffin, especially a costly one: used as a softened synonym of coffin.
  5. n. A stalk or stem.
  6. To put into a little chest.
  7. n. Same as gasket.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A little box, e.g. for jewellery.
  2. n. An urn.
  3. n. A coffin.
  4. v. poetic, transitive To put into, or preserve in, a casket.

GNU Webster's 1913

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

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. small and often ornate box for holding jewels or other valuables
  2. n. box in which a corpse is buried or cremated
  3. v. enclose in a casket

Etymologies

  1. From Norman cassette. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, possibly alteration of Old French cassette; see cassette. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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