MINT

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

2.
n.

A place where money is coined by public authority.

3.
n.

Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.

4.
v.

To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

5.
v.

To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. Titles... of such natures as may be easily minted. Bacon. Minting mill, a coining press.


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