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<hw>Coi"lon</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. See <er>Cullion</er>.]</ety> <def>A testicle.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Coin</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Coin</hw> <tt>(koin)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>coin</ets>, formerly also <ets>coing</ets>, wedge, stamp, corner, fr. L. <ets>cuneus</ets> wedge; prob. akin to E. <ets>cone</ets>, <ets>hone</ets>. See <er>Hone</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. <er>Coigne</er>, <er>Quoin</er>, <er>Cuneiform</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A quoin; a corner or external angle; a wegde. See <er>Coigne</er>, and <er>Quoin</er>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>It is alleged that it [a subsidy] exceeded all the current <b>coin</b> of the realm. <i>Hallam.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That which serves for payment or recompense.</def>

<blockquote>The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid in a nobler <b>coin</b>. <i>Hammond.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Coin balance</col>. <cd>See <i>Illust<i>. of <er>Balance</er>.</cd> -- <col>To pay one in his own coin</col>, <cd>to return to one the same kind of injury or ill treatment as has been received from him. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd></cs>

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<hw>Coin</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Coined</er> <tt>(koind)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Coining</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make of a definite fineness, and convert into coins, as a mass of metal; to mint; to manufacture; <as>as, to <ex>coin</ex> silver dollars; to <ex>coin</ex> a medal.</as></def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make or fabricate; to invent; to originate; <as>as, to <ex>coin</ex> a word</as>.</def>

<blockquote>Some tale, some new pretense, he daily <b>coined</b>, To soothe his sister and delude her mind. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To acquire rapidly, as money; to make.</def>

<blockquote>Tenants cannot <b>coin</b> rent just at quarter day. <i>Locke.</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Coin</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To manufacture counterfeit money.</def>

<blockquote>They cannot touch me for <b>coining</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coinage</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Coin"age</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Coin</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>, cf. <er>Cuinage</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or process of converting metal into money.</def>

<blockquote>The care of the <b>coinage</b> was committed to the inferior magistrates. <i>Arbuthnot.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Coins; the aggregate coin of a time or place.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The cost or expense of coining money.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The act or process of fabricating or inventing; formation; fabrication; that which is fabricated or forged.</def> "Unnecessary <i>coinage</i> . . . of words."

<i>Dryden.</i>

<blockquote>This is the very <b>coinage</b> of your brain. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Coincide</h1> <Xpage=276>

<hw>Co`in*cide"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Coincided</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Coinciding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>co-</ets> + <ets>incidere</ets> to fall on; <ets>in + cadere</ets> to fall: cf. F. <ets>co\'8bncider</ets>. See <er>Chance</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.</def>