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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Mint

Mint, n.

noun

n. [A-S. mynet, money, coin, mynet smidhthe, a money smithy, mint, Icel. mynt, money, coin, Sw. mynt, coin, myntet, mint, Dan. mynt or mynet, D. munt, N. H. Ger. münze, O. H. Ger. münize, coin, mint, from Lat. moneta, the mint, coined money, from Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose temple at Rome money was coined.]

  1. The place where money is coined; a factory of coin.
  2. A place of invention, fabrication, or production; source of unlimited supply; hence, colloquially, unlimited supply.

He has a mint of reasons. Tennyson.

Mint, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. MINTED; p. pr. & vb. n. MINTING.] [A-S. mynetian, O. H. Ger. münizôn, N. H. Ger. münzen, L. Lat. monetare.]

  1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
  2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion; to produce.

Mint, n.

noun

n. [A-S. minte, Dan. mynte, Sw. mynta, D. munte, O. H. Ger. munzā, minzā, M. H. Ger. minze, N. H. Ger. münze, minze, from Lat. mentha, L. Lat. menta, Gr. μίνθα, μίνθη; whence also It., Sp., & Pr. menta, Fr. mente.] (Bot.) An aromatic plant of the genus Mentha, of various species, producing, by distillation, a highly odoriferous and pungent essential oil.