Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
quaint .
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Examples
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No more searching through my pockets for that miniscule 1 forint coint!
War on the Penny Continues Unabated - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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No more searching through my pockets for that miniscule 1 forint coint!
War on the Penny Continues Unabated - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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We have to remember this - unless their designers and other personnel have been emailing, texting, or takin suspect 780 page dossiers off rivals then Ferrari cannot - as yet - know who has done what with their diffusers. they can know, however, that the regulations are - to coint a phrase - 'open to interpretation'.
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French it became _coint_, which was treated as if from Lat. _comptus_, neat; hence the word is frequent in the sense of neat, exact, or delicate.
Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
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Every decision of a coint of justice, ought to be made according to the law of the land; whether it is pronounced upon the opinion of the judges, or by the verdict of a jury.
Journal of the Senate of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania. General Assembly. Senate 1791
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