Mint \Mint\, n. [AS. mynet money, coin, fr. L. moneta the mint, coined money, fr. Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose at Rome money was coined; akin to monere to warn, admonish, AS. manian, and to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Money, Monition.]

1. A place where money is coined by public authority.

2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.

A mint of phrases in his brain. --Shak.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mint \Mint\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Minted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minting.]

[AS. mynetian.]

1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

Titles . . . of such natures as may be easily minted. --Bacon.

Minting mill, a coining press.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Mint \Mint\, n. [AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. ?, ?.]

(Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)