(Gr. heduosmon, i.e., "having a sweet smell"), one of the garden herbs of which the Pharisees paid tithes (Matthew 23:23; Luke 11:42). It belongs to the labiate family of plants. The species most common in Syria is the Mentha sylvestris, the wild mint, which grows much larger than the garden mint (M. sativa). It was much used in domestic economy as a condiment, and also as a medicine. The paying of tithes of mint was in accordance with the Mosiac law (Deuteronomy 14:22), but the error of the Pharisees lay in their being more careful about this little matter of the mint than about weightier matters.

Noah Webster's New International Dictionary of the English Language

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

2. (n.) A place where money is coined by public authority.

3. (n.) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.

4. (v. t.) To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

5. (v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.