coine

English

Noun

coine (plural coines)

  1. Obsolete spelling of coin
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I‎, 1921 ed. edition:
      XXVII And greedy Avarice by him did ride, 235 Upon a Camell[*] loaden all with gold; Two iron coffers hong on either side, With precious mettall full as they might hold; And in his lap an heape of coine he told; For of his wicked pelfe his God he made, 240 And unto hell him selfe for money sold; Accursed usurie was all his trade, And right and wrong ylike in equall ballaunce waide.

Anagrams

Walloon

Etymology

Old French corne < Vulgar Latin *corna (taken as a feminine singular), from Classical Latin cornua, nominative plural of cornū.

Noun

coine f

  1. horn
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