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noun

Mint n. (Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha. Note: Corn mint is Mentha arvensis. Horsemint is Mentha sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects. Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America. Peppermint is Mentha piperita. Spearmint is Mentha viridis. Water mint is Mentha aquatica.

Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol.

Mint julep. See Julep.

Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.

Mint n.

A place where money is coined by public authority.

Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. "A mint of phrases in his brain."

Specifically: A large quantity of money; as, to make a mint in stock trading.

adjective

mint adj.

Like new; in brand-new condition; unworn, as a coin recently made at a mint (1); as, he had a '53 Cadillac in mint condition.

Specifically: (Numismatics) Uncirculated; in the same condition as when it was freshly coined at the mint (1).

verb

Mint v. t. (past & past part. minted; pres. part. minting)

To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. "Titles... of such natures as may be easily minted."

Minting mill, a coining press.

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Etymology of 'Mint'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Mint" Quotes from Famous Books

... rush for The Corner started. In a week there was a village; in a fortnight there was a town; in a month The Corner had become the talk of the ranges. Jack Landis found in the claims a mint. He sent ...

— Gunman's Reckoning • Max Brand

... half-hour. The town was growing quiet, the sound of the evening psalms was ceasing. The rustle of the wind among the branches covered the tread of the sentries as they walked the wall between the Porte Neuve and the Mint tower; only their harsh voices as they met midway and challenged came at intervals to his ears. It must be hard on ten o'clock. Or, no, there was the bell of St. Peter's ...

— The Long Night • Stanley Weyman

... enough gold concealed about their persons and in their baggage to double the first estimate. Whether all these statements were correct or not does not signify, for those were the reports that were spread throughout the states. From this last source alone, the mint at San Francisco received half a million dollars' worth of gold in one week, and it was certain that men who had gone away poor had come back with fortunes. It was stated that a poor blacksmith who had gone up from Seattle returned with $115,000, and that a man from ...

— Introduction to the Science of Sociology • Robert E. Park

... Carl. "This is how it came about. Lately we received word that the company had struck some gushers in the way of wells, and that the stock my father had bought for a few cents a share is worth a mint of money now. It was through Amasa Culpepper my mother first learned about this, and she wrote to the company ...

— The Boy Scouts of Lenox - Or The Hike Over Big Bear Mountain • Frank V. Webster

... myrtle, and brought water in his two hands to bathe the bruised head, whimpering the while. Then he chafed the small bare feet and warmed them in his own warm breast; and gathering handfuls of pungent mint and the sweet-scented henna, he crushed them and held them to the boy's nostrils. And these devices failing, he sat disconsolate, the curves of his mobile face falling into unwonted lines of half-weary, half-sorrowful dejection. "I know not how it may be," he said to himself, smiling whimsically, ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1920 - and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

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