noun.
A quince.
To stamp and convert into money; mint: as, to coin gold.
To make by coining metals: said of money.
To represent on a coin.
To make; fabricate; invent: as, to coin words.
In tin-works, to weigh and stamp (tin blocks).
To yield to the process of minting; be suitable for conversion into metallic money; be coinable.
noun.
In architecture, a corner or an angle. See quoin.
noun.
The specific name given to various wedge-shaped pieces used for different purposes, as—
noun.
for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance;
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for locking a printers' form;
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for fixing casks in their places, as on board a ship. See quoin.
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A die employed for stamping money.
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Hence A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, or some alloy, converted into money by impressing on it officially authorized marks, figures, or characters: as, gold coins; a copper coin; counterfeit coins.
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Collectively, coined money; coinage; a particular quantity or the general supply of metallic money: as, a large stock of coin; the current coin of the realm.
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Figuratively, anything that serves for payment, requital, or recompense.
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[F.] The clock of a stocking.