6 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coin \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coin \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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coin \Coin\, v. i.
To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for coining. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
coin
n : a metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
v 1: of phrases or words
2: form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins";
"strike a medal" [syn: {mint}, {strike}]
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Coin, IA (city, FIPS 14970)
Location: 40.65588 N, 95.23523 W
Population (1990): 278 (135 housing units)
Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
Zip code(s): 51636
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Coin
Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They
made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they
weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the
silver ingots used in the time of Abraham may have been of a
fixed weight, which was in some way indicated on them. The
"pieces of silver" paid by Abimelech to Abraham (Gen. 20:16),
and those also for which Joseph was sold (37:28), were proably
in the form of rings. The shekel was the common standard of
weight and value among the Hebrews down to the time of the
Captivity. Only once is a shekel of gold mentioned (1 Chr.
21:25). The "six thousand of gold" mentioned in the transaction
between Naaman and Gehazi (2 Kings 5:5) were probably so many
shekels of gold. The "piece of money" mentioned in Job 42:11;
Gen. 33:19 (marg., "lambs") was the Hebrew _kesitah_, probably
an uncoined piece of silver of a certain weight in the form of a
sheep or lamb, or perhaps having on it such an impression. The
same Hebrew word is used in Josh. 24:32, which is rendered by
Wickliffe "an hundred yonge scheep."