coin

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. i. To manufacture counterfeit money. [ 1913 Webster ]

They cannot touch me for coining. Shak. [ 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 ]