Coin

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To manufacture counterfeit money.

II. Coin ·noun That which serves for payment or recompense.

III. Coin ·vt To acquire rapidly, as money; to Make.

IV. Coin ·noun A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. ·see Coigne, and Quoin.

V. Coin ·vt To make or fabricate; to Invent; to Originate; as, to coin a word.

VI. Coin ·noun 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.

VII. Coin ·vt 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.

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