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n. [ F. coin, formerly also coing, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. cuneus wedge; prob. akin to E. cone, hone. See Hone, n., and cf. Coigne, Quoin, Cuneiform. ] 1. A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wedge. See Coigne, and Quoin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A piece of metal on which certain characters are stamped by government authority, making it legally current as money; -- much used in a collective sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is alleged that it [ a subsidy ] exceeded all the current coin of the realm. Hallam. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which serves for payment or recompense. [ 1913 Webster ]

The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

Coin balance. See Illust. of Balance. --
To pay one in his own coin, to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Coined p. pr. & vb. n. Coining. ] 1. To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; as, to coin silver dollars; to coin a medal. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,
To soothe his sister and delude her mind. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make. [ 1913 Webster ]

Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Coincided p. pr. & vb. n. Coinciding. ] [ L. co- + incidere to fall on; in + cadere to fall: cf. F. coïncider. See Chance, n. ] 1. To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other. [ 1913 Webster ]

If the equator and the ecliptic had coincided, it would have rendered the annual revoluton of the earth useless. Cheyne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide. [ 1913 Webster ]

The rules of right jugdment and of good ratiocination often coincide with each other. Watts. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. coïncidence. ] 1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Exact correspondence in nature, character, result, circumstances, etc.; concurrence; agreement. [ 1913 Webster ]

The very concurrence and coincidence of so many evidences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

Those who discourse . . . of the nature of truth . . . affirm a perfect coincidence between truth and goodness. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Coincidence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One of two or more coincident events; a coincidence. [ R. ] “Coincidents and accidents.” Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. coïncident. ] Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. [ 1913 Webster ]

Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well-inclined man. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Coincident. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With coincidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who coincides with another in an opinion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. coïdication. ] One of several signs or symptoms indicating the same fact; as, a coindication of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who makes or stamps coin; a maker of money; -- usually, a maker of counterfeit money. [ 1913 Webster ]

Precautions such as are employed by coiners and receivers of stolen goods. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inventor or maker, as of words. Camden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who dwells with another, or with others. “Coinhabitants of the same element.” Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To inhere or exist together, as in one substance. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Joint inheritance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A coheir. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Math.) Having a common beginning. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. coinquinatus, p. p. of coinquinare to defile. See Inquinate. ] To pollute. [ Obs. ] Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Defilement. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Happening at the same instant. C. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Co- + insurance. ] 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 or between other insurers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Equal in intensity or degree; as, the relations between 6 and 12, and 8 and 16, are cointense. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition of being of equal in intensity; -- applied to relations; as, 3:6 and 6:12 are relations of cointension. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cointension . . . is chosen indicate the equality of relations in respect of the contrast between their terms. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

. In the fullest sense, the conversion of bullion (of any specified metal) into legal-tender coins for any person who chooses to bring it to the mint; in a modified sense, such coinage when done at a fixed charge proportionate to the cost of the operation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. pl. See Gaskins, 1. Lyly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being incoincident; lack of coincidence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not coincident; not agreeing in time, in place, or principle. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }. Silver coins or money of the nominal value of 1d., 2d., 3d., and 4d., struck annually for the Maundy alms. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Lack of coincidence. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not coincident. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To coin anew or again. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act of coining anew. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is coined anew. [ 1913 Webster ]