| n. | 1. | A cap. |
| 2. | a coiffure. | |
| v. t. | 1. | To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif. |
| Noun | 1. | coif - a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law |
| Verb | 1. | coif - cover with a coif |
| 2. | coif - arrange attractively; "dress my hair for the wedding" |
COIF. A head-dress. In England there are certain serjeants at law, who are called serjeants of the coif, from the lawn coif they wear on their heads under their thin caps when they are admitted to that order.
| COIF - Fortran with interactive graphic extensions for circuit
design, on UNIVAC 1108. ["An Interactive Software System for Computer-Aided Design: An Application to Circuit Projects", CACM 9(13) (Sep 1970)]. |
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