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coin
n. [F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform.]1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin. ()
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.] ()
v. t. 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 medal. ()
2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. ()
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily 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.)
v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money. ()
They cannot touch me for coining. (Shak.)


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