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ch used in a collective sense. It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam.

The act or process of converting metal into money. The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot.

as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne.

The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley.

Coincidence. [R.]

Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South.

Coincident.

With coincidence.

One who coincides with another in an opinion.

One of several signs or sumptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease.

One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money. Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay.

One who dwells with another, or with others. "Coinhabitants of the same element." Dr. H. More.

To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton.

Joint inheritance.

A coheir.

Having a common beginning.

Topollute. [Obs.] Skelton.

Defilement. [Obs.]

Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin.

Insurance jointly with another or others; specif., that system of fire insurance in which the insurer is treated as insuring himself to the extent of that part of the risk not covered by his policy, so that any loss is apportioned between him and the insurance company on the principle of average, as in marine insurance…