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

A sauce of vinegar and sugar flavored with spearmint leaves.

The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

One who mints.

One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.

Good against intestinal worms. -- An anthelmintic remedy. [Written also anthelminthic.]

A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.

See Water mint.

A genus of perennial plants (Calamintha) of the Mint family, esp. the C. Nepela and C. Acinos, which are called also basil thyme.

A well-know plant of the genus Nepeta (N. Cataria), somewhat like mint, having a string scent, and sometimes used in medicine. It is so called because cats have a peculiar fondness for it.

Intestinal worms. See Helminthes.

An intestinal worm, or wormlike intestinal parasite; one of the Helminthes.

A vermifuge.

group including a vast number of species, most of which are parasitic. Called also Enthelminthes, Enthelmintha.

A disease in which worms are present in some part of the body.

Of or relating to worms, or Helminthes; expelling worms. -- n.

One of the sinuous tracks on the surfaces of many stones, and popularly considered as worm trails.

Wormlike; vermiform.

Of or pertaining to helminthology.