Careful Words

mint (n.)

mint (v.)

mint (adj.)

  Woe unto you, . . . for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin.

New Testament: Matthew xxiii. 23.

A man in all the world's new fashion planted,

That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.