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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

... was caused amongst us as we received the respective coins to which we were entitled, each holding out his cap for them; for a sailor, you know, puts everything in his cap. Pocketing our coin as we went below, Mick created the greatest fun of all as he spit on his and spun it in the air. "Hooray!" he cried out, against the regulations, though, fortunately for himself, not too loud, as he skated down the hatchway. "Begorrah, it's the foorst money ...

— Young Tom Bowling - The Boys of the British Navy • J.C. Hutcheson

... of the field the Jefferson team was running through signals and trying punts and drop kicks. Simultaneously the teams ceased their practice and gathered at the two benches at opposite sides of the field. Neil Durant, Norris and the referee then met in mid-field and flipped a coin for choice of goals. There was little advantage, for almost no wind was stirring, but Norris, who won the toss, quickly chose the south goal and a moment later the two teams ran out and took their places. Ridgley was to kick ...

— The Mark of the Knife • Clayton H. Ernst

... than a largely attended game of pitch-and-toss, at which sometimes hundreds of pounds in gold or notes change hands. I remember one old man who had only one shilling between him and the grave, so he told me. He could not decide whether to invest his last coin in a gallon of water or in the "heading-school." He chose the latter and lost . . . subsequently I saw him lying peacefully drunk under a tree! I doubt if his intention had been suicide, but had it been he could hardly have chosen a more ...

— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie

... "You shall certainly leave," retorted the Capellmeister, "but you must be caned first." And so, having received his caning, Haydn was sent adrift on the streets of Vienna, a broken-voiced chorister, without a coin in his pocket, and with only poverty staring him in the face. ...

— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden

... public school systems of Geneva and Berlin; the higher education drew him through the chateau country of France; for three weeks the head-waiters of Paris (in the pedagogical district) were familiar with the clink of his coin; and August's first youth was gone before he was in London with the lake region a ...

— Queed • Henry Sydnor Harrison

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