coil 
coil 3 (koil), . [E. dial. Of. coiU, .] A hen- 
coop. Also called hen-coil. [Prov. Eng.] 
coil* (koil), . [E. dial., var. of cote 3 , q. v.] 
A cock, as of hay ; a haycock. 
O bonny, bonny, sang the bird, 
Sat on the coil o' hay. 
Clerk Saunders (Child's Ballads, II. 324). 
coillont, coilont, coillent, See million. 
coil-plate (koil'plat), . A plate having hooks 
or rings by means of which it sustains the 
horizontal coils of a radiator, or an evaporator, 
or a condenser, etc. 
coin 1 (koin), n. [< ME. coyn, coyne, coigne, coin, 
money, < OF. coin, a wedge, stamp, coin, later 
coing, corner, F. coin, wedge, stamp, die, usu- 
ally corner, = Pr. cunh, conh, cony = Sp. cuno, 
cuila = Pg. cunho = It. conio, < L. cuneus, a 
wedge, akin to Or. /cuwf, a peg, cone (> ult. E. 
cone), and to E. hone, q. v. In the senses 
'corner, angle,' which are later in E., the word 
is often spelled coign (after later OF. coing, 
coign) or quoin.~\ 1. In arch., a corner or an 
angle. See quoin. 
Another, leveld by the Lesbian Squire, 
Deep vnder ground (for the Foundation) joins 
Well-polisht Marble, in long massie Coins. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Magnificence. 
2. The specific name given to various wedge- 
shaped pieces used for different purposes, as 
(a) for raising or lowering a piece of ordnance ; 
(6) for locking a printers' form; (c) for fix- 
ing casks in their places, as on board a ship. 
See quoin. 3. A die employed for stamping 
money. Hence 4. A piece of metal, as gold, 
silver, copper, or some alloy, converted into 
money by impressing on it officially authorized 
marks, figures, or characters: as, gold coins; a 
copper coin ; counterfeit coins. 
Whanne the puple aposed [questioned] hym of a peny in 
the temple, 
And god askede of hem whas [whose] was the coygne. 
Piers Plowman (C), ii. 46. 
5. Collectively, coined money; coinage ; a par- 
ticular quantity or the general supply of me- 
tallic money: as, a large stock of coin; the 
current coin of the realm. 
All the coin in thy father's exchequer. 
Shak., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 2. 
6. Figuratively, anything that serves for pay- 
ment, requital, or recompense. 
The loss of present advantage to flesh and blood is repaid 
in a nobler coin. Hammond, Fundamentals. 
7. [F.] The clock of a stocking. Aryandic 
coin. See Aryandic. Coin-cup, a metal cup or tankard 
in which coins of silver or gold are inserted, in the bottom, 
Bides, or cover, as ornaments. Current coin, coin in 
general circulation. Defaced coin, coin on which any 
name or words have been stamped other than those im- 
pressed by the mint in accordance with statute. Any per- 
son who defaces coin of the United States, or foreign coin 
that passes current in the United States, is punishable by 
law. Obsidional coins, coins of various base metals, 
struck in besieged places, as a substitute for current money. 
To pay one in his own coin, to treat a person as he 
has treated you ; give him tit for tat. 
I was acquainted with the danger of her disposition ; 
and now have fitted her a just payment in her own coin. 
Ford, 'Tis Pity, iv. 1. 
coin 1 (koin), v. [< ME. coynen, coignen; from the 
noun.] I. trans. 1. To stamp and convert 
into money ; mint : as, to coin gold. 
The kynge's side salle be the hede, & his name written, 
The croyce side, what cite [city] it was in coyned & smyteu. 
Langtoft'e Chronicle (ed. Hearne), p. 239. 
2. To make by coining metals : said of money. 
He caused the Laws of England to be executed in Ire- 
land, and Money to be coined there according to the 
Weight of English Money. Baker, Chronicles, p. 74. 
3f. To represent on a coin. [Rare.] 
That emperor whom no religion would lose, Constantine, 
... that emperor was coined praying. Donne, Sermons, xi. 
4. To make; fabricate; invent: as, to coin 
words. 
Some tale, some new pretext, he daily coined 
To soothe his sister and delude her mind. 
Dryden, jEneid, i. 484. 
5. In tin-works, to weigh and stamp (tin blocks). 
[Cornwall.] To coin money, figuratively, to make 
money rapidly ; be very successful in business. 
The owners of horses and mules were coining money, 
transporting people to the fair-ground. 
C. D. Warner, Roundabout Journey, p. 199. 
II. intrans. To yield to the process of mint- 
ing; be suitable for conversion into metallic 
money; be coinable. [Rare.] 
Their metal is so soft that it will not coin without alloy 
to harden it. Dri/den, Epick Poetiy. 
coin 2 !, [ME., < OF. coin, coing, mod. F. coing 
= Pr. codoing = It. codogna, cotogna, < ML. 
*codonium,*codonia, cotoneum, cotonea, etc., var. 
1094 
of cidon .ium, cidonia, cydonium, cydonia, ult. < L. 
cydonia, cotonia, cotonea, a quince. From a late 
form of coin, namely quine, quyne, is derived 
the present E. form quince : see quince, codiniac, 
quiddany.'] A quince. Bom. of the Rose. 
coinable (koi'na-bl), a. [<co(H 1 , v., + -able.~\ Ca- 
pable of being converted into coins. 
We might more simply say, that the material of money 
should be coinable, so that a portion, being once issued ac- 
cording to proper regulations, may be known to all as good 
and legal currency. Jevons, Money and Mech. of Ex., p. 40. 
coinage (koi'naj), . [< coin 1 + -age.~\ 1. The 
act, art, or process of making coins. 2. Coin; 
money coined; pieces of metal stamped by 
the proper authority for use as a circulating 
medium. 
The archaic coins of Magna Gnecia have a local peculi- 
arity of fabric which distinguishes them from the other 
early coinages of Hellas. 
C. T. Newton, Art and Archffiol., p. 406. 
3. The charges or expense of coining money. 
Cheapness of coinage in England, where it costs nothing, 
will indeed make money be sooner brought to the mint. 
Locke, Considerations of Interest, etc. 
4. The act or process of forming or producing; 
invention; fabrication. 
Unnecessary coinage ... of words. 
Dryden, Ded. of Juvenal's Satires. 
5. That which is fabricated or produced. 
This is the very coinage of your brain. 
Shale., Hamlet, ill. 4. 
Bronze Coinage Act, an English statute of 1859 (22 and 
23 Viet., c. 30), making the coinage laws applicable to 
bronze or mixed metal coins. Garbling the coinage. 
See garble. 
coin-assorter (koin'a-sor'ter), n. A machine 
or device for separating coins according to their 
weight or size. 
coin-balance (koin'bal"ans), n. A very accu- 
rate and sensitive balance for weighing coins. 
coincide (ko-in-sid ' ), v. i. ; pret. and pp. coin- 
cided, ppr. coinciding. [= F. coincider = Sp. 
Pg. coincidir = It. coincidere, < ML. "coincidere, 
< L. co-, together, + incidere, fall on, < in, on, 
+ cadere, f all : see cadent ana incident.] 1. To 
occupy the same place in space, the same point 
or period in time, or the same position in a scale 
or series : as, a temperature of 25 on the cen- 
tigrade scale coincides with one of 77 on the 
scale of Fahrenheit ; the rise of the church coin- 
cides with the decline of the Roman empire. 
If the equator and the ecliptick had coincided, it would 
have rendered the annual revolution of the earth quite use- 
less. Dr. Q. Cheyne, Phil. Prin. of Natural Religion, I 26. 
2. To concur; agree; correspond exactly: as, 
the judges did not coincide in opinion ; that did 
not coincide with my views. 
The rules of right judgment and of good ratiocination 
often coincide with each other. Watts, Logic. 
The interests of the subjects and the rulers never abso- 
lutely coincide till the subjects themselves become the 
rulers, that is, till the government be either immediately 
or mediately democratical. 
ilacaulay, Mitford's Hist. Greece. 
coincidence (ko- in 'si- dens), n. [= F. coinci- 
dence = Sp. Pg. coincidencia = It. coincidema, 
< ML. "coincidentia, < *coinciden(t-)s : see coin- 
cident.'] 1. The fact of being coincident, or of 
occupying the same place in space or the same 
position in a scale or series; exact correspon- 
dence in position : as, the coincidence of equal 
triangles. 
The want of exact coincidence between these two notes 
is an inherent arithmetic imperfection inthemusical scale. 
Whewell. 
2. A happening at the same time or existence 
during the same period; contemporaneousness. 
When A is constantly happening, and also B, the occur- 
rence of A and B at the same moment is a mere coinci- 
dence, which may be casualty. 
De Morgan, Budget of Paradoxes, p. 280. 
Nevertheless it is evident that denials of the received 
morality and revolutionary views of morality have ap- 
peared perhaps only by a coincidence at the time and 
in the circles where religious belief has been shaken most 
violently. J. R. Seeley, Nat. Religion, p. US. 
Hence 3. Concurrence; agreement in circum- 
stance, character, etc. ; more or less exact cor- 
respondence generally, or an instance of exact 
correspondence; especially, accidental or in- 
cidental concurrence; accidental agreement: 
as, the coincidence of two or more opinions. 
Is there not a true coincidence between commutative 
and distributive justice ? 
Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 150. 
The very concurrence and coincidence of so many evi- 
dences . . . carries a great weight. Sir M. Hale. 
The actual coincidence* that sometimes happen between 
dreams and events. Chambers'! Encyc. 
Formula Of coincidence, a formula which expresses 
how many coincidences occur under certain general con- 
ditions. Point of coincidence, a point where two or 
coinheritance 
more points coincide. Line and plane of coincidence are 
similarly defined. Principle of coincidence, the prin- 
dple expressed by a formula of coincidence. 
coincidency (ko-in'si-den-si), n. Coincidence. 
ll'arbiirtun. [Rare.] 
coincident (ko-in'si-dent), a. and n. [= F. co- 
incident = Sp. Pg. It. coincidente, < ML. "coinci- 
den(t-)s, ppr. of "coincidere, coincide : see coin- 
cide.'] I. a. 1. Occupying the same place in 
space, or the same position in a scale or series ; 
Coinciding. In yeom. , two figures are coincident which 
are everywhere infinitely near to each other ; but two 
coincident points often lie upon a definite right line, etc. 
When two sets of waves are coincident, the height of 
the wave or extent of vibration is doubled. 
Spottiswoode, Polarisation, p. 31. 
2. Happening at the same time; coexistent: 
with with. 
Their international communication was greatly facili- 
tated by several useful inventions coincident with this 
period. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 1. 
Shakspeare, too, saw that in true love, as in fire, the 
utmost ardor is coincident unth the utmost purity. 
ilarg. Fuller, Woman in 19th Cent., p. 68. 
Ignorance and crime are not cause and effect ; they are 
coincident results of the same cause. 
H. Spencer, Social Statics, p. 379. 
3. Concurrent; exactly corresponding; in all 
respects conformable ; consistent. 
Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly . . . 
coincident with the ruling principles of a virtuous man. 
South. 
II. n. A concurrence ; a coincidence. [Rare.] 
Lay wisdom on thy valour, on thy wisdom valour, 
For these are mutual co-incidents. 
tliddleton and Rowley, World Tost at Tennis. 
coincidental (ko-in-si-den'tal), a. [< coinci- 
dent, n., + -a?.] Pertaining to, characterized 
by, or of the nature of coincidence or a coinci- 
dence ; happening at or about the same time 
as another event to which it is in some notable 
way related. 
I have myself . . . noted a considerable number of 
very striking coincidental dreams. 
N. and Q., 6th ser., X. 358. 
COincidentally (ko-in-si-den'tal-i), adv. In a 
coincident manner; with coincidence. 
Coimidentally with these changes, an active fermenta- 
tion is excited. Huxley, Biology, v. 
coincidently (ko-in'si-dent-li), adv. In a coin- 
cident manner ; with coincidence. 
Now it is certain that two different buildings . . . could 
not be 'coincidently erected on a site that would certainly 
not suffice in its dimensions for more than one of the two. 
N. and Q., 6th ser., X. 462. 
coincider (kp-in-si'der), n. One who or that 
which coincides or concurs. 
coin-counter (koin'koun"ter), n. A mechani- 
cal device for facilitating the counting of coins. 
A common coin-counter is a flat tray having a fixed num- 
ber of depressions on the surface. By throwing the coins 
on the tray and filling the depressions with them, a large 
number of pieces can be counted at one time. 
coindicant (ko-in'di-kant), a. and n. [< co- 1 + 
indicant; = F. coindicant, etc.] I. a. Fur- 
nishing an additional symptom or indication; 
confirming other signs or indications : as, a co- 
indicant symptom. 
II. n. A coindicant symptom. 
coindication (ko-in-di-ka'shon), n. [< co- 1 4- 
indication; = F. coindication, etc.] A concur- 
rent indication, sign, or symptom. 
coiner (koi'ner), n. 1. One who stamps coins; 
a minter; a maker of money. 
There is reason to believe that the reproach against 
Frederick of being a false coiner arose from his adopting 
the Eastern device of plating copper pieces to pass for 
silver. J. A, Symonds, Italy and Greece, p. 161. 
Specifically 2. A maker of base or counter- 
feit coins ; a counterfeiter. 
My father was I know not where 
When I was stamp'd ; some coiner with his tools 
Made me a counterfeit. Shak., Cymbeline, ii. 5. 
3. An inventor or maker, as of words. 
Dionysius a coiner of etymologies. Camden, Remains. 
COinhabitant (ko-in-hab'i-tant), n. [< co-1 + 
inhabitant.'] One who dwells with another or 
with others. Dr. H. More. 
coinhabiting (kd-in-hab'i-ting), n. [< co- 1 + 
inhabiting.] A dwelling together; a cohabit- 
ing. Mttton. 
coinhere (ko-in-her'), v. i. ; pret. and pp. coin- 
hered, ppr. coinhering. [< co- 1 + inhere.'] To 
inhere together; be included or exist together 
in the same thing. 
We can justify the postulation of two different sub- 
stances, exclusively on the supposition of the incompati- 
bility of the double series of phenomena to coinhere in 
one. Sir W. Hamilton. 
coinheritance (ko-in-her'i-tans), n. [< co- 1 + 
inheritance.] Joint inheritance. 
