MINT
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
mint
adj 1: as if new; "in mint condition"
n 1: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or
extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot
of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the
rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must
have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of
money" [syn: {batch}, {deal}, {flock}, {good deal}, {great
deal}, {hatful}, {heap}, {lot}, {mass}, {mess}, {mickle},
{mint}, {mountain}, {muckle}, {passel}, {peck}, {pile},
{plenty}, {pot}, {quite a little}, {raft}, {sight}, {slew},
{spate}, {stack}, {tidy sum}, {wad}]
2: any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic
leaves and small mauve flowers
3: any member of the mint family of plants
4: the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied
5: a candy that is flavored with a mint oil [syn: {mint}, {mint
candy}]
6: a plant where money is coined by authority of the government
v 1: form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins";
"strike a medal" [syn: {mint}, {coin}, {strike}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mint \Mint\ (m[i^]nt), n. [AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. mi`nqa,
mi`nqh.] (Bot.)
The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the
genus {Mentha}, yielding odoriferous essential oils by
distillation. See {Mentha}.
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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}.
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{Mint camphor}. (Chem.) See {Menthol}.
{Mint julep}. See {Julep}.
{Mint sauce}, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
mint \mint\, a.
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.
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2. Specifically: (Numismatics) Uncirculated; in the same
condition as when it was freshly coined at the mint[1].
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mint \Mint\, n. [AS. mynet money, coin, fr. L. moneta the mint,
coined money, fr. Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose at Rome
money was coined; akin to monere to warn, admonish, AS.
manian, and to E. mind. See {Mind}, and cf. {Money},
{Monition}.]
1. A place where money is coined by public authority.
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2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply;
the supply itself.
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A mint of phrases in his brain. --Shak.
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3. Specifically: A large quantity of money; as, to make a
mint in stock trading.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Mint \Mint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Minted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Minting}.] [AS. mynetian.]
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1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp
into money.
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2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
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Titles . . . of such natures as may be easily
minted. --Bacon.
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{Minting mill}, a coining press.
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from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
MiNT
<operating system> (MinT is not TOS - a {recursive acronym}) A
freeware, {open source operating system} for the {Atari ST}
range of computers. MiNT was originally based on a {port} of
{BSD} to {Atari ST} computers by Eric R. Smith. MiNT gave the
Atari access to BSD's many network applications. A short
(1992-94) romance between MiNT and {Atari} Corp., who decided
to convert the system to the {MultiTOS} {kernel}, produced a
unique TOS/Unix hybrid, which provides simultaneous access to
both {GEM} and BSD application libraries.
Since MiNT is MultiTOS's kernel, it has kept all the features
described above and, if an {AES} replacement is installed, it
can show you a new face of MultiTOS. Unlike MultiTOS however,
MiNT is based on a different {file system}, that is faster and
more flexible than TOS's. Furthermore, thanks to the network
support, MiNT allows an Atari to be an {Internet} {server}
that can still run GEM and TOS applications! This has won
MiNT many devotees ("MiNTquisitors"), making it the main
competitor for {ASH}'s {MagiC}.
Unlike {Linux}, MiNT can run on a {Motorola 68000} with no
{FPU}. It needs at least 4 MB of RAM, more to run multiuser
or to run GEM applications at the same time.
(http://orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/docs/mint.html).
(1999-07-20)
from
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
Mint
(Gr. heduosmon, i.e., "having a sweet smell"), one of the garden
herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matt. 23:23; Luke
11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species
most common in Syria is the Mentha sylvestris, the wild mint,
which grows much larger than the garden mint (M. sativa). It was
much used in domestic economy as a condiment, and also as a
medicine. The paying of tithes of mint was in accordance with
the Mosiac law (Deut. 14:22), but the error of the Pharisees lay
in their being more careful about this little matter of the mint
than about weightier matters.
from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
MINT. The place designated by law, where money is coined by authority of the
government of the United States.
2. The mint was established by the Act of April 2, 1792, 1 Story's L.
U. S. 227, and located at Philadelphia, where, by virtue of sundry acts of
congress, it still remains. Act of April 24, 1800, 1 Story, 770; Act of
March 3, 1801, 1 Story, 816; Act of May 19, 1828, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story's
L. U. S. 2120.
3. Below will be found a reference to the acts of congress now in force
in relation to the mint. Act of January 18, 1837, 4 Sharsw. cont. of Story,
L. U. S. 2120; Act of May 19, 1828, 4 Id. 2120; Act of May 3, 1835; Act of
February 13, 1837; Act of March 3, 1849; Act of March 3, 1851, s. 11. Vide
Coin; Foreign Coin; Money.
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
264 Moby Thesaurus words for "mint":
armory, arsenal, assembly line, assembly plant,
atomic energy plant, batch, beget, bindery, block out, boatyard,
boilery, bomb, boodle, bookbindery, brand-new, breed, brewery,
brickyard, bright, bring forth, bring into being, bundle,
call into being, cannery, carve, cast, chisel, coin, conceive,
concoct, considerable, contrive, cook up, counterfeit, creamery,
create, cut, dairy, deal, defense plant, design, develop, devise,
die, discover, distillery, dockyard, dream up, earn, efform,
engender, evolve, extra, fabricate, factory, factory belt,
factory district, factory-new, fashion, feeder plant, figure,
fire-new, fix, flour mill, forge, form, formalize, found, frame,
fresh, generate, give being to, give rise to, gobs, good deal,
good sum, great deal, harmless, hatch, heap, heaps, heaps of gold,
held back, held in reserve, held out, hew, improvise, in abeyance,
in hand, in mint condition, inaugurate, industrial park,
industrial zone, innovate, intact, intaglio, invent, inviolate,
knead, knock out, large sum, lashings, last, lay out,
lick into shape, like new, loads, lot, lots, main plant, make,
make do with, make up, manufactory, manufacturing plant,
manufacturing quarter, matrix, mature, mess, mill, millions,
mint of money, model, mold, munitions plant, negative, neologize,
neoterize, new, new-begotten, new-built, new-fledged, new-grown,
new-laid, new-made, new-minted, new-model, new-mown, new-wrought,
newborn, oil refinery, oodles, original, originate, pack, packet,
packing house, peck, perfect, pile, piles, plan, plant, pot,
potful, pots, pottery, power of money, power plant, pretty penny,
pristine, procreate, produce, production line, punch,
push-button plant, put aside, put by, quite a little, raft, rafts,
refinery, renew, renovate, reserve, roll, rough out, roughcast,
roughhew, saved, sawmill, scads, scatheless, sculpt, sculpture,
seal, set, shape, shipyard, shoe last, shove the queer, sight,
slew, slews, spare, spate, spawn, spick-and-span, stack, stacks,
stamp, stored, strike out, subassembly plant, sugar refinery,
suspended, tailor, tannery, template, thermoform, think out,
think up, thousands, tidy sum, to spare, ton, unapplied, unbeaten,
unbroken, unbruised, uncirculated, unconsumed, undamaged,
undefaced, undeformed, undemolished, undestroyed, unemployed,
unexercised, unexpended, unfaded, unhandled, unharmed, unhurt,
unimpaired, uninjured, unmaimed, unmangled, unmarked, unmarred,
unscarred, unscathed, unscratched, unshattered, unspent, unspoiled,
untapped, untorn, untouched, untrodden, unused, unutilized,
unwithered, unworn, utter, virgin, wad, wads, waived, whole slew,
winery, work, yard, yards
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