Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for COIN
COIN, v.t.
- To stamp a metal, and convert it into money; to mint.
- To make; as, to coin words. – Shak.
- To make; to forge; to fabricate; in an ill sense; as, to coin a lie; to coin a fable. – Hudibras. Dryden.
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