Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An old standard of value in silver; a piece of silver money; in the passage cited from the Bible, either a shekel or a half-shekel.
- noun The tarpon, Tarpon atlanticus, a large silvery game-fish of the Atlantic coast of America, known from Long Island to Brazil, and common on the southeastern coast of the United States. Also
silver-fish .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A small silver coin.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a small
silver coin
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Examples
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It is a kind of silverling of sorts that despicable Selig Harrison, the leftwing political hack who has been a tireless apologist for N. Korea, is no longer solicited for his opinion in MSM.
Latest Articles 2009
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It is a kind of silverling of sorts that despicable Selig Harrison, the leftwing political hack who has been a tireless apologist for N. Korea, is no longer solicited for his opinion in MSM.
Latest Articles 2009
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Slightly higher sandy areas are covered by shrub thicket characterized by wax myrtle, silverling, red cedar, yaupon and Hercules 'club.
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But "crusions" are golden carp, and when I was a child the Devonshire fishermen used to call the long white fish with argent stripes (whose proper name, I think, is the launce) a silverling.
Gossip in a Library Edmund Gosse 1888
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The vineyard had a thousand vines probably; a vine at a silverling (Isa 7: 23), referring to this passage.
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Then they would sleep, again awaking at day-dawn when they would arise and seek for spoil, according to their custom, and ransack the heaps where at times they would hit upon a silverling of five dirhams and at other times a piece of four; and at eventide they would meet to spend together the dark hours, and they would expend everything they came by every day.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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The Minister took the ducat and leaving his lord went up to her and placed it in her palm; and, when she closed her fingers thereupon, she felt that the coin was bigger than a copper or a silverling, so she looked thereat and saw that it was of gold.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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Common Name: Groundsel tree; Salt marsh elder; Sea myrtle, groundsel bush, consumption weed, cotton-seed tree, groundsel tree or silverling, Eastern Baccharis,
Find Me A Cure 2010
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They are known by the common names salt bush, groundsel bush, silverling and sea myrtle.
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