'Coin' definitions:

Definition of 'coin'

From: WordNet
noun
A flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
verb
Make up; "coin phrases or words"
verb
Form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins"; "strike a medal" [syn: mint, coin, strike]

Definition of 'Coin'

From: GCIDE
  • Coin \Coin\, v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money. [1913 Webster]
  • They cannot touch me for coining. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Coin'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. --Hallam. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. That which serves for payment or recompense. [1913 Webster]
  • The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. --Hammond. [1913 Webster]
  • 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.] [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Coin'

From: GCIDE
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. [1913 Webster]
  • Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. [1913 Webster]
  • Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. --Locke. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Coin'

From: 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."

Synonyms of 'coin'

From: Moby Thesaurus

Coin, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa

From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Coin, IA -- U.S. city in Iowa
Population (2000) :
252
Housing Units (2000) :
118
Land area (2000) :
0.801642 sq. miles (2.076243 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.801642 sq. miles (2.076243 sq. km)
FIPS code :
14970
Located within :
Iowa (IA), FIPS 19
Location :
40.656943 N, 95.234142 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
51636
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.

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