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Any English coin of standard value; coined money. So that ye offer nobles or sterlings. Chaucer. And Roman wealth in English sterling view. Arbuthnot.

others from the coasts of the Baltic. Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us. Holinshed.

A foster child.

A young oyster.

Willing to yield or submit; responsive; tractable. Sterling . . . always was amenable enough to counsel. Carlyle.

Feeding upon onions. [R.] Sterling.

enomination of money; as, the English crown, a silver coin of the value of five shillings sterling, or a little more than $1.20; the Danish or Norwegian crown, a money of account, etc., worth nearly twenty-seven cents.

one country when expressed in the coin or standard of another, as the value of the pound sterling in the currency of France or the United States. The par of exchange rarely varies, and serves as a measure for the rise and fall of exchange that is affected by the demand and supply. Exchange is at par when, for example,…

An ancient gold coin of the time of Edward III., of six shillings sterling value. Camden.

r mode of originating; production; formation; origination. The origin and genasis of poor Sterling's club. Carlyle.

A gold coin of England current for twenty-one shillings sterling, or about five dollars, but not coined since the issue of sovereigns in 1817. The guinea, so called from the Guinea gold out of which it was first struck, was proclaimed in 1663, and to go for twenty shillings; but it never went for less than twenty-one s…

An English gold coin, of the value of twenty-five shillings sterling, struck in the reign of James I.

mmonly having a diminutive or a depreciatory force; as in duck-ling, dosling, hireling, fosterling, firstling, underling.

Formerly, a gold coin of France nominally worth twenty shillings sterling, but of varying value; -- first struck in 1640.

A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.

The coin, or other production, made in a mint. Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage. Sterling.

A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.

An English money of account, and, formerly, a gold coin, of the value of 6 s. 8 d. sterling, or about $1.61.

A money of account among the Anglo-Saxons, valued, in the Domesday Book, at twenty pence sterling.