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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

... in arm, talking of many things, and soon were standing on the white bridge that spanned a little stream, which flowed between green banks, fragrant with mint. Here and there were patches of green rushes and beds of ...

— The Moving Picture Girls at Oak Farm - or, Queer Happenings While Taking Rural Plays • Laura Lee Hope

... was bright, thriving, and well kept; acres of glass-houses stretched down the inclines to the copses at their feet. Everything looked like money—like the last coin issued from the Mint. The stables, partly screened by Austrian pines and evergreen oaks, and fitted with every late appliance, were as dignified as Chapels-of-Ease. On the extensive lawn stood an ornamental tent, its door being ...

— Tess of the d'Urbervilles - A Pure Woman • Thomas Hardy

... bridegroom whose early love has jilted him, but agrees to marry him when she is an elderly widow and he an old bachelor, and who appals the marriage party by coming to the church in his shroud, with the bell tolling as for a funeral—all these bear the unmistakable stamp of Hawthorne's mint, and each is a study of his favourite subject, the border-land between reason and insanity. In many of these stories appears the element of interest, to which Hawthorne clung the more closely both from early associations and because it is the one undeniably poetical element in the American character. ...

— Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) • Leslie Stephen

... you in the way of making a mint of money. There's only one thing: you must give up the baby and never let anybody know you ever had it. Don't freeze up and turn away. There are so many ways of disposing of a baby. Send it to a foundling asylum. No questions will be asked. The baby will ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

... adopting another British measure. The bill passed; but it was a different matter to enforce it, as many an excise officer reflected, uncheerfully, whilst riding a rail. On the 28th of January Hamilton sent in his Report in favour of the establishment of a mint, with details so minute that he left the framers of the necessary bill little excuse for delay; but it had the same adventurous and agitated experience of its predecessors, and only limped through, ...

— The Conqueror • Gertrude Franklin Atherton

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