Definition of Mint

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Definition of Mint

Mint

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

A place where money is coined by public authority.

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

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

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

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Mint Quotations

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint.
Billy Connolly

If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
Don Marquis

Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
Thomas B. Macaulay

Scoops of mint ice cream with chips of chocolate cows.
Jim Bishop

The world is not so much in need of new thoughts as that when thought grows old and worn with usage it should, like current coin, be called in, and, from the mint of genius, reissued fresh and new.
Alexander Smith

The world is like a little marsh filled with mint and white hawthorn.
Mary MacLane

The mint makes it first, it is up to you to make it last.
Evan Esar

My wife is one of the best wimin on this Continent, altho' she isn't always gentle as a lamb with mint sauce.
Charles Farrar Browne

Kleenex would have made a mint today.
Larry Harvey

Mint Translations

mint in Danish is mynte
mint in Dutch is pepermunt, kruizemunt, munt
mint in French is menthe
mint in German is Minze
mint in Italian is menta
mint in Spanish is menta

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