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[mint] 
| 1. | any aromatic herb of the genus Mentha, having opposite leaves and small, whorled flowers, as the spearmint and peppermint. Compare mint family. |
| 2. | a soft or hard confection, often shaped like a wafer, that is usually flavored with peppermint and often served after lunch or dinner. |
| 3. | any of various flavored hard candies packaged as a roll of small round wafers. |
| 4. | made or flavored with mint: mint tea. |
bef. 1000; ME, OE minte (c. OHG minza) < L ment(h)a < Gk mínthē
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2 [mint] | 1. | a place where coins, paper currency, special medals, etc., are produced under government authority. |
| 2. | a place where something is produced or manufactured |
| 3. | a vast amount, esp. of money: He made a mint in oil wells. |
| 4. | Philately. (of a stamp) being in its original, unused condition. |
| 5. | unused or appearing to be newly made and never used: a book in mint condition. |
| 6. | to make (coins, money, etc.) by stamping metal. |
| 7. | to turn (metal) into coins: to mint gold into sovereigns. |
| 8. | to make or fabricate; invent: to mint words. |
bef. 900; ME mynt, OE mynet coin < L monēta coin, mint, after the temple of Juno Monēta, where Roman money was coined
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3 [mint] Scot. and North England| 1. | intent; purpose. |
| 2. | an attempt; try; effort. |
| 3. | to try (something); attempt. |
| 4. | to take aim at (something) with a gun. |
| 5. | to hit or strike at (someone or something). |
| 6. | to try; attempt. |
| 7. | to take aim. |
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| mint 1 (mĭnt) n.
[Middle English, from Old English mynet, coin, from Latin monēta; see money.] mint'er n. |
| mint 2 (mĭnt) n.
[Middle English minte, from Old English, from Germanic *minta, from Latin menta, possibly from Greek minthē.] mint'y adj. |
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Mint
Mint\, n. [AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. ?, ?.] (Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha. Note: Corn mint is Mentha arvensis. Horsemint is M. sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects. Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America. Peppermint is M. piperita. Spearmint is M. viridis. Water mint is M. aquatica. Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol. Mint julep. See Julep. Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.Mint
Mint\, n. [AS. mynet money, coin, fr. L. moneta the mint, coined money, fr. Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose at Rome money was coined; akin to monere to warn, admonish, AS. manian, and to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Money, Monition.]1. A place where money is coined by public authority. 2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. --Shak.Mint
Mint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minting.] [AS. mynetian.]1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money. 2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. Titles . . . of such natures as may be easily minted. --Bacon. Minting mill, a coining press.Cite This Source
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Main Entry: mint
Pronunciation: 'mint
Function: noun
: any of a family (Labiatae, the mint family) of aromatic plants with a square stem and a four-lobedovary which produces four one-seeded nutlets in fruit; especially : any of the genus Mentha of mints (as the spearmint, M. spicata; the peppermints, M. piperita andM. arvensis; and the European pennyroyal M. pulegium)
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MINT
Mint Is Not TRAC
MiNT operating system
(MinT is not TOS - a recursive acronym) A freeware, open source operating system for the Atari ST range of computers. MiNT was originally based on a port of BSD to Atari ST computers by Eric R. Smith. MiNT gave the Atari access to BSD's many network applications. A short (1992-94) romance between MiNT and Atari Corp., who decided to convert the system to the MultiTOS kernel, produced a unique TOS/Unix hybrid, which provides simultaneous access to both GEM and BSD application libraries.
Since MiNT is MultiTOS's kernel, it has kept all the features described above and, if an AES replacement is installed, it can show you a new face of MultiTOS. Unlike MultiTOS however, MiNT is based on a different file system, that is faster and more flexible than TOS's. Furthermore, thanks to the network support, MiNT allows an Atari to be an Internet server that can still run GEM and TOS applications! This has won MiNT many devotees ("MiNTquisitors"), making it the main competitor for ASH's MagiC.
Unlike Linux, MiNT can run on a Motorola 68000 with no FPU. It needs at least 4 MB of RAM, more to run multiuser or to run GEM applications at the same time.
(http://orient.uw.edu.pl/~conradus/docs/mint.html).
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Mint
(Gr. heduosmon, i.e., "having a sweet smell"), one of the garden herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matt. 23:23; Luke 11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species most common in Syria is the Mentha sylvestris, the wild mint, which grows much larger than the garden mint (M. sativa). It was much used in domestic economy as a condiment, and also as a medicine. The paying of tithes of mint was in accordance with the Mosiac law (Deut. 14:22), but the error of the Pharisees lay in their being more careful about this little matter of the mint than about weightier matters.
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