Coin , v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for
coining.
Shak.
Coin , v. 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 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.
Coin (koin), 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.]
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