y thin deal and
_papier mache_ are the favourite materials. Coffins for what is known as
Earth to Earth Burial are made of wicker-work covered with a thin layer
of _papier mache_ over cloth.

See also FUNERAL RITES; CREMATION; Burial and Burial Acts; EMBALMING;
MUMMY, &c.

BIBLIOGRAPHY.--Dr H. C. Yarrow, "Study of the Mortuary Customs of the
North American Indians," _Report of Bureau of Amer. Ethnol._ vol. i.
(Washington, U.S.A., 1881); Rev. Thomas Hugo, "On the Hayden Square
Sarcophagus," _Journ. of Archaeol. Soc._ vol. ix. (London, 1854); C.
V. Creagh, "On Unusual Forms of Burial by People of the East Coast of
Borneo," _J.A.I._, vol. xxvi. (London, 1896-1897); Rev. J. Edward
Vaux, _Church Folk-lore_ (1894).

COG. (1) (From an older _cogge_, a word which appears in various forms
in Teutonic languages, as in O. Ger. _kogge_ or _kocke_, and also in
Romanic, as in O. Fr. _cogue_, or _coque_, from which the Eng.
"cock-boat" is derived; the connexion between the Teutonic and the
Romanic forms is obscure), a broadly built, round-shaped ship, used as a
trader and also as a ship of war till the 15th century. (2) (A word of
obscure origin, possibly connected with Fr. _coche_, and Ital. _cocca_,
a notch; the Celtic forms _cog_ and _cocas_ come from the English), a
tooth in a series of teeth, morticed on to, or cut out of the
circumference of a wheel, which works with the tooth in a corresponding
series on another wheel (see MECHANICS). (3) (Also of quite obscure
origin), a slang term for a form of cheating at dice. The early uses of
the word show that this was done not by "loading" the dice, as the
modern use of the expression of "cogged dice" seems to imply, but by
sleight of hand in directing the fall or in changing the dice.

COGERS HALL, a London tavern debating society. It was instituted in 1755
at the White Bear Inn (now St Bride's Tavern), Fleet Street, moved about
1850 to Discussion Hall, Shoe Lane, and in 1871 finally migrated to the
Barley Mow Inn, Salisbury Square, E.C., its present quarters. The name
is often wrongly spelt Codgers and Coggers; the "o" is really long, the
accepted derivation being from Descartes' _Cogito, ergo sum_, and thus
meaning "The society of thinkers." The aims of the Cogers were "the
promotion of the liberty of the subject and the freedom of the Press,
the maintenance of loyalty to the laws, the rights and claims of
humanity and the practice of public and priv