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Webster 1913 Edition
Coin
Coin
(koin)
, Noun.
2.
A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; – much used in a collective sense.
It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current
coin
of the realm. Hallam.
3.
That which serves for payment or recompense.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler
coin
. Hammond.
Coin balance
. See Illust. of
– Balance
. To pay one in his own coin
, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him.
[Colloq.]
Coin
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Coined
(koind)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Coining
.] 1.
To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture;
as, to
. coin
silver dollars; to coin
a medal2.
To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate;
as, to
. coin
a wordSome tale, some new pretense, he daily
To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
coined
,To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
Dryden.
3.
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Tenants cannot
coin
rent just at quarter day. Locke.
Coin
,Verb.
I.
To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for
coining
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Coin
COIN
, n.1.
A corner; a jutting point, as of a wall.Rustic coins, stones jutting from a wall for new buildings to be joined to.
2.
A wedge for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance.3.
A wedge or piece of wood to lay between casks on shipboard.COIN
,Noun.
1.
Money stamped; a piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or other metal, converted into money, by impressing on it marks, figures or characters. To make good money, these impressions must be made under the authority of government. That which is stamped without authority is called false or counterfeit coin. Formerly, all coin was made by hammering; but it is now impressed by a machine or mill.Current coin is coin legally stamped and circulating in trade.
Ancient coins are chiefly those of the Jews, Greeks and Romans, which are kept in cabinets as curiosities.
2.
In architecture, a kind of die cut diagonally, after the manner of a flight of a stair case, serving at bottom to support columns in a level, and at top to correct the inclination of an entablature supporting a vault.3.
That which serves for payment.The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
COIN
, v.t.1.
To stamp a metal, and convert it into money; to mint.2.
To make; as, to coin words.3.
To make; to forge; to fabricate; in an ill sense; as, to coin a lie; to coin a fable.