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Coin   /kɔɪn/   Listen
noun
Coin  n.  
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."
3.
That which serves for payment or recompense. "The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin."
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.)


verb
Coin  v. t.  (past & past part. coined; pres. part. 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."
3.
To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. "Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day."


Coin  v. i.  To manufacture counterfeit money. "They cannot touch me for coining."





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"Coin" Quotes from Famous Books



... mistakes that with us constantly foil the best-laid plans. They turn a girl's fortune into money, and hang it—it, the fortune proper—the [Greek: poion] and the [Greek: poson]—about her neck. They do not buy jewels worth so many hundreds or tens—but transpierce the actual coin, and of them compose a necklace of whose value there can be no doubt, and whose fashion is not very variable. This may be called a fair and above-board way of doing things. The swain, as he sits by the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various
... back a step or two, bending down and scrutinizing the brown earth. Orrick, presently announcing that the coin might have rolled, made a slow way across the road on his knees, patting the ground with his hand as he moved. Near the edge of it, half in the woods, lay a thick piece of split firewood, long as a man's arm and stouter. The knotted old fingers ...
— Captivating Mary Carstairs • Henry Sydnor Harrison
... Referring to the custom of throwing small coins among crowds in the street on the occasion of a wedding. A dirham is a coin nearly equal in value to sixpence ...
— Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers • W. A. Clouston
... tongue encountered a task of much difficulty. It was no easy matter to conduct theological controversies in a language which was not remarkable for flexibility, and which had never before been employed in such discussions; and Tertullian seems to have often found it necessary to coin unwonted forms of expression, or rather to invent an ecclesiastical nomenclature. The ponderous Latin, hitherto accustomed to speak only of Jupiter and the gods, engages somewhat awkwardly in its new vocation; and yet contrives to proclaim, with wonderful power, the great thoughts for which ...
— The Ancient Church - Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution • W.D. [William Dool] Killen
... the G—d d—n ye's which they bestow on the house, attendance, and entertainment. Unto those who commenced this sort of barter in the Clachan of Saint Ronan's, well could Meg Dods pay it back, in their own coin; and glad they were to escape from the house with eyes not quite scratched out, and ears not more deafened than if they had been within ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott


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