What does "mint" mean?

Mint: A place where money is coined by public authority.

Additional senses

  1. 2.Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.
  2. 3.To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
  3. 4.To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion. Titles... of such natures as may be easily minted. Bacon. Minting mill, a coining press.

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