silverling

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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.

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  1. 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. Here have I purst their paltry silverlings. Marlowe, Jew of Malta, i. 1. There were a thousand vines at a thousand silverlings. Isa. vii. 23. The canon's talk about “the censer and olive branch stamped upon a shekel” is as unwarranted as his name for the silverlings of the traitor [Judas]. N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 365.
  2. 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.

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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
  • 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
  • And eat what liketh thee of dainty cake, * And take thy due of fee in silverling, —  Arabian nights. English
  • 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
  • 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
 

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  1. Early modern English silverling (=D. zilverling =G. silberling); from silver + -ling.
 

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