[koin] 
| 1. | a piece of metal stamped and issued by the authority of a government for use as money. |
| 2. | a number of such pieces. |
| 3. | Informal. money; cash: He's got plenty of coin in the bank. |
| 4. | Architecture. quoin (defs. 1, 2). |
| 5. | Archaic. a corner cupboard of the 18th century. |
| 6. | operated by, or containing machines operated by, inserting a coin or coins into a slot: a coin laundry. |
| 7. | to make (coinage) by stamping metal: The mint is coining pennies. |
| 8. | to convert (metal) into coinage: The mint used to coin gold into dollars. |
| 9. | to make; invent; fabricate: to coin an expression. |
| 10. | Metalworking. to shape the surface of (metal) by squeezing between two dies. Compare emboss (def. 3). |
| 11. | British Informal. to counterfeit, esp. to make counterfeit money. |
| 12. | coin money, Informal. to make or gain money rapidly: Those who own stock in that restaurant chain are coining money. |
| 13. | pay someone back in his or her own coin, to reciprocate or behave toward in a like way, esp. inamicably; retaliate: If they persist in teasing you, pay them back in their own coin. |
| 14. | the other side of the coin, the other side, aspect, or point of view; alternative consideration. |
| coin (koin) n.
[Middle English, from Old French, die for stamping coins, wedge, from Latin cuneus, wedge.] coin'a·ble adj., coin'er n. |
Coin
Before the Exile the Jews had no regularly stamped money. They made use of uncoined shekels or talents of silver, which they weighed out (Gen. 23:16; Ex. 38:24; 2 Sam. 18:12). Probably the silver ingots used in the time of Abraham may have been of a fixed weight, which was in some way indicated on them. The "pieces of silver" paid by Abimelech to Abraham (Gen. 20:16), and those also for which Joseph was sold (37:28), were proably in the form of rings. The shekel was the common standard of weight and value among the Hebrews down to the time of the Captivity. Only once is a shekel of gold mentioned (1 Chr. 21:25). The "six thousand of gold" mentioned in the transaction between Naaman and Gehazi (2 Kings 5:5) were probably so many shekels of gold. The "piece of money" mentioned in Job 42:11; Gen. 33:19 (marg., "lambs") was the Hebrew _kesitah_, probably an uncoined piece of silver of a certain weight in the form of a sheep or lamb, or perhaps having on it such an impression. The same Hebrew word is used in Josh. 24:32, which is rendered by Wickliffe "an hundred yonge scheep."
coin
In addition to the idiom beginning with coin, also see other side of the coin; pay back (in someone's own coin).
| COIN counterinsurgency |