Definition of "cofer" [cofer]

• An obsolete spelling of coffer. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Diuers of them throwe their dead into Riuers, other cofer them vp in earthen cofres, some enclose them in glasse, and kepe them in their houses a yeare, and in the meane season worship them deuoutly, and offre vnto them the first of all their encreace."
• "Virgil -- they go to Bethlehem and present to the Child a "lytyll spruse cofer," a ball, and a gourd-bottle."
• "_Homer_ were holden with _Alexander_ the great, in so much as euery night they were layd vnder his pillow, and by day were carried in the rich iewell cofer of _Darius_ lately before vanquished by him in battaile."