coin

coin
    n 1: a flat metal piece (usually a disc) used as money
    v 1: make up; "coin phrases or words"
    2: form by stamping, punching, or printing; "strike coins";
       "strike a medal" [syn: {mint}, {coin}, {strike}]
    

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}.
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   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.
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            It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the
            current coin of the realm.            --Hallam.
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   3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
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            The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is
            repaid in a nobler coin.              --Hammond.
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   {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.
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Coin \Coin\, v. i.
   To manufacture counterfeit money.
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         They cannot touch me for coining.        --Shak.
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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.
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   2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin
      a word.
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            Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,
            To soothe his sister and delude her mind. --Dryden.
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   3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
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            Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
                                                  --Locke.
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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."
    

Coin, IA (city, FIPS 14970)
  Location: 40.65588 N, 95.23523 W
  Population (1990): 278 (135 housing units)
  Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
  Zip code(s): 51636
    

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.
   Headwords:
    Coin, IA
    Coin
    

COIN, commerce, contracts. A piece of gold, silver or other metal stamped by 
authority of the government, in order to determine its value, commonly 
called money. Co. Litt. 207; Rutherf. Inst. 123. For the different kinds of 
coins of the United States, see article Money. As to the value of foreign 
coins, see article Foreign Coins. 
    

132 Moby Thesaurus words for "coin":
      L, angle, apex, beget, bend, bifurcation, bight, bread, breed,
      bring forth, bring into being, call into being, cant, cash, change,
      chevron, chips, conceit, conceive, conceptualize, concoct,
      contrive, cook up, corner, counterfeit, crank, create, crook,
      crotchet, crown, currency, deflection, design, develop, devise,
      discover, dogleg, double eagle, doubloon, dough, dream up, ducat,
      eagle, elbow, ell, engender, evolve, experience imaginatively,
      fabricate, fancy, fantasize, fictionalize, five-dollar gold piece,
      forge, fork, frame, furcation, generate, give being to,
      give rise to, gold piece, guinea, half crown, half eagle,
      hard money, hatch, hook, ideate, imagine, improvise, inaugurate,
      inflection, innovate, introduce, introduce new blood, invent, jack,
      knee, legal tender, make do with, make innovations, make money,
      make up, mature, mazuma, mint, moidore, mold, money, napoleon,
      neologize, neoterize, nook, originate, piece, piece of money,
      piece of silver, pioneer, plan, point, pound sovereign, procreate,
      produce, quoin, renew, renovate, revolutionize, roll of coins,
      rouleau, scratch, shape, shekels, shove the queer, silver,
      sovereign, spawn, specie, stamp, start, strike out, suppose,
      swerve, ten-dollar gold piece, think out, think up,
      twenty-dollar gold piece, utter, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag