DEFINITION
COIN:
• (n.) A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and
Quoin.
• (n.) 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.
• (n.) That which serves for payment or recompense.
• (v. t.) 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.
• (v. t.) To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin
a word.
• (v. t.) To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
• (v. i.) To manufacture counterfeit money.