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mint noun1.
[Old English mynet, corresp. (with variation of gender) to Old Frisian menote, munte, Old Saxon munita (Dutch munt), Old High German munia, muni (German Munze), from Germanic, from Latin moneta: see MONEY noun.]
A coin; money. Now rare or obsolete. OE.
A place where money is coined, usu. under the authority and direction of the State. LME.
b. fig. A place where something originates or is generated; a source, a fount, (of). M16.
H. Sacheverell The Pulpit, and the Press, those Mints of Atheism. Tennyson But thou and I are one in kind, As moulded like in Nature's mint.
Coinage. L15-E17.
A set of machines for coining. L16.
A vast sum of or of money. M17.
M. M. R. Khan How elegantly she dresses...Must have cost her husbands a mint.
Comb.: mint-bill Hist. a bill or promissory note given by an officer of the mint to an importer of bullion deposited for coining; mint condition the condition of a freshly minted coin, as-new condition; chiefly in in mint condition; mint-mark a mark on a coin indicating the mint at which it was struck; mint par, mint parity (more fully mint par of exchange, mint parity of exchange) (a) the ratio between the gold equivalent of the currency units of two countries; (b) the rate of currency exchange between two countries based on this ratio; mint master (a) the superintendent of coinage at a mint; (b) a person who coins new ideas, words, etc.; mint price the standard price of bullion as recognized at a mint; mint state = mint condition above.