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One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. [R.]

A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume.

Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke.

An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.

in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er, to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" so intent on raking up muck that he could not see a celestial crown held above him.

A French gold coin of twenty francs, or about $3.86.

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. fized. Hall.

A small coin made of or containing nickel; esp., a five-cent piece. [Colloq. U.S.] Nickel silver, an alloy of nickel, copper, and zinc; -- usually called german silver; called also argentan.

An old English silver coin, worth nine pence.

An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.

Of or pertaining to coins; relating to the science of coins or medals.

The science of coins and medals.

A treatise on, or description of, coins and medals.

The science which treats of coins and medals, in their relation to history; numismatics.

Of or relating to coins or money.

Of or pertaining to coin or money; pecuniary; as, the nummulary talent.

The arrangement of the red blood corpuscles in rouleaux, like piles of coins, as when a drop of human blood is examined under the microscope.

To cut with reeding or fluting on the edge of, as coins, the heads of screws, etc.; to knurl.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished. [R.] Lamb.

A copper coin, used in the Ionian Islands, about one cent in value.