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Coilon
(Coi"lon) n. [F. See Cullion.] A testicle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Coin
(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.
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.
It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current coin of the realm.
Hallam.
3. That which serves for payment or recompense.
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler coin.
Hammond.
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.]
Coin
(Coin), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coined (koind); 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.
2. To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; as, to coin a word.
Some tale, some new pretense, he daily coined,
To soothe his sister and delude her mind.
Dryden.
3. To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.
Tenants cannot coin rent just at quarter day.
Locke.
Coin
(Coin), v. i. To manufacture counterfeit money.
They cannot touch me for coining.
Shak.
Coinage
(Coin"age) n. [From Coin, v. t., cf. Cuinage.]
1. The act or process of converting metal into money.
The care of the coinage was committed to the inferior magistrates.
Arbuthnot.
2. Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.
3. The cost or expense of coining money.
4. The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.
"Unnecessary coinage . . . of words." Dryden.
This is the very coinage of your brain.
Shak.
Coincide
(Co`in*cide") 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.]
