n. [ From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage. ] 1. The act or process of converting metal into money. [ 1913 Webster ]
The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place. [ 1913 Webster ]
3. The cost or expense of coining money. [ 1913 Webster ]
4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged. “Unnecessary coinage . . . of words.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
This is the very coinage of your brain. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
[きんめ, kinme](n) (1) (金目 only) Edo-period unit of gold coinage; (2) golden eyes (of a cat, etc.); (3) (abbr) (See 金目鯛) splendid alfonsino (Beryx splendens)[Add to Longdo]
[ぎんめ, ginme](n) (1) (銀目 only) Edo-period unit of silver coinage; (2) steel-blue eyes (e.g. of a cat); (3) (uk) (abbr) (See 銀目鯛) silver eye (species of beardfish, Polymixia japonica)[Add to Longdo]