mint

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A place where the coins of a country are manufactured by authority of the government.
2. n. A place or source of manufacture or invention.
3. n. An abundant amount, especially of money.
4. v. To produce (money) by stamping metal; coin.
5. v. To invent or fabricate: a phrase that was minted for one occasion.
6. adj. Undamaged as if freshly minted: The painting was in mint condition.
7. n. A member of the mint family.
8. n. 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.
9. n. The foliage of some of these plants.
10. n. Any of various similar or related plants, such as the stone mint.
11. n. A candy flavored with mint.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A coin; coin; coined money; money.
2. n. A place where money is coined by public authority. The coining of money is now considered a prerogative of government. In early times there were many mints in England, but now the only one in that country is the Royal Mint, Tower Hill. London. The United States Mint was established by act of April 2d. 1792, and located at Philadelphia. Other mints have since been established at San Francisco, New Orleans, Carson City, and Denver (but the last two are, properly speaking, assay offices). The United States Mint is a bureau of the Treasury Department, under the charge of an officer called the Director of the Mint.
3. n. Figuratively, a source of fabrication or invention.
4. n. A quantity such as a mint turns out; a great supply or store: as, a mint of money.
5. n. [capitalized] A place of privilege or asylum in Southwark, London, near the Queen's Prison, where persons sheltered themselves from justice, under the pretext that this place was an ancient palace of the crown. (Rapalje and Lawrence.) The privilege is now abolished.
6. To coin; stamp and convert into money.
7. To invent; forge; fabricate.
8. n. A plant of the genus Mentha. The most familiar species are the peppermint, M. piperita, and the spearmint (garden-mint, mackerelmint), M. viridis, well known as medicines and condiments. The bergamot-mint, affording a perfumers' oil, is M. aquatica, the crisped or curled mint, the variety crispa of the same. The water-mint (or brook-mint) of older usage was M. sylvestris, now called horsemint. The corn-mint is M. arvensis. The pennyroyal-mint or pennyroyal is M. Pulegium — that is, flea-mint. The whorled mint is M. sativa; the wild mint of the United States, M. Canadensis. See cut under Mentha.
9. n. One of several other, mostly labiate, plants with mint-like properties. Compare catmint.
10. To aim; purpose; endeavor.
11. To insinuate; hint.
12. n. The crisped or curled mint, Mentha crispa.
13. n. The catmint or catnip.
14. n. The horsemint, M. longifolia.
15. n. The bergamot-mint, M. citrata.
16. n. Spearmint.
17. n. The Oswego tea, Monarda didyma.
18. n. The wood-calamint, Clinopodium Calamintha.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland To try, attempt; take aim.
2. v. transitive, provincial, Northern England, Scotland To try, attempt, endeavor; to take aim at; to try to hit; to purpose.
3. v. intransitive To hint; suggest; insinuate.
4. n. provincial, Northern England, Scotland Intent, purpose; an attempt, try; effort, endeavor.
5. n. A building or institution where money (originally, only coins) is produced under government licence.
6. n. informal A large amount of money. A vast sum or amount, etc.
7. v. transitive To reproduce (coins), usually en masse, under licence.
8. adj. Of condition, as new.
9. adj. numismatics In near-perfect condition; uncirculated.
10. adj. philately Unused with original gum; as issued originally.
11. adj. slang Very good.
12. n. Any of several plants of the family Lamiaceae, typically aromatic with square stems.
13. n. The flavouring of the plant, either a sweet, a jelly or sauce.
14. n. A green colour, like that of mint.
15. n. A mint-flavored candy, often eaten to sweeten the smell of the breath.
16. adj. Of a green colour, like that of the mint plant.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See mentha.
2. n. A place where money is coined by public authority.
3. n. Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
4. n. A large quantity of money.
5. v. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
6. v. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
7. adj. Like new; in brand-new condition; unworn, as a coin recently made at a mint{1}.
8. adj. (Numismatics) Uncirculated; in the same condition as when it was freshly coined at the mint{1}.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. any north temperate plant of the genus Mentha with aromatic leaves and small mauve flowers
2. n. a plant where money is coined by authority of the government
3. v. form by stamping, punching, or printing
4. adj. as if new
5. n. any member of the mint family of plants
6. n. a candy that is flavored with a mint oil
7. n. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent
8. n. the leaves of a mint plant used fresh or candied