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mint

1[mint]
–noun
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.
–adjective
4. made or flavored with mint: mint tea.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME, OE minte (c. OHG minza) < L ment(h)a < Gk mínthē

mint

2[mint]
–noun
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.
–adjective
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.
–verb (used with object)
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.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME mynt, OE mynet coin < L monēta coin, mint, after the temple of Juno Monēta, where Roman money was coined


minter, noun

mint

3[mint] Scot. and North England
–noun
1. intent; purpose.
2. an attempt; try; effort.
–verb (used with object)
3. to try (something); attempt.
4. to take aim at (something) with a gun.
5. to hit or strike at (someone or something).
–verb (used without object)
6. to try; attempt.
7. to take aim.

Origin:
bef. 900; (v.) ME minten, OE (ge)myntan to intend; akin to mind; (n.) ME, deriv. of the v.
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mint 1   (mĭnt)   
n.  
  1. A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.

  2. A place or source of manufacture or invention.

  3. An abundant amount, especially of money.

tr.v.   mint·ed, mint·ing, mints
  1. To produce (money) by stamping metal; coin.

  2. To invent or fabricate: a phrase that was minted for one occasion.

adj.  Undamaged as if freshly minted: The painting was in mint condition.

[Middle English, from Old English mynet, coin, from Latin monēta; see money.]
mint'er n.
mint 2   (mĭnt)   
n.  
  1. A member of the mint family.

    1. Any of various plants of the genus Mentha, characteristically having aromatic foliage and nearly regular flowers. Some plants are cultivated for their aromatic oil and used for flavoring.

    2. The foliage of some of these plants.

  2. Any of various similar or related plants, such as the stone mint.

  3. A candy flavored with mint.


[Middle English minte, from Old English, from Germanic *minta, from Latin menta, possibly from Greek minthē.]
mint'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Slang Dictionary
mint

  1. n.
    a lot of money. : He makes a mint. He can afford a little generosity.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

mint  (1)
"aromatic herb," O.E. minte, from W.Gmc. *minta (cf. O.H.G. minze, Ger. Münze), from L. menta, mentha "mint," from Gk. minthe, personified as a nymph transformed into a herb by Proserpine, probably a loan-word from a lost Mediterranean language.

mint  (2)
"place where money is coined," O.E. mynit "coin," from W.Gmc. *munita, from L. moneta "mint" (cf. O.Fris. menote, M.Du. munte, Ger. münze; see money). It meant "coin" at first in Eng.; sense of "place where money is made" first recorded 1423. General sense of "a vast sum of money" is from 1655. The verb is 1546, from the noun. The adj. meaning "perfect" (like a freshly minted coin) is from 1902.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

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)
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Computing Dictionary

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).
(1999-07-20)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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Bible Dictionary

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.

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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