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Starlit :: Starling (n.) A structure of piles driven round the piers of a bridge for protection and support; -- called also sterling.

Stern :: Sterling (a.) Genuine; pure; of excellent quality; conforming to the highest standard; of full value; as, a work of sterling merit; a man of sterling good sense..

Portague :: Portague (n.) A Portuguese gold coin formerly current, and variously estimated to be worth from three and one half to four and one half pounds sterling..

Sterling :: Sterling (n.) A certain standard of quality or value for money.

Rial :: Rial (n.) A gold coin formerly current in England, of the value of ten shillings sterling in the reign of Henry VI., and of fifteen shillings in the reign of Elizabeth..

Testoon :: Testoon (n.) An Italian silver coin. The testoon of Rome is worth 1s. 3d. sterling, or about thirty cents..

Thaler :: Thaler (n.) A German silver coin worth about three shillings sterling, or about 73 cents..

Scute :: Scute (n.) An old French gold coin of the value of 3s. 4d. sterling, or about 80 cents..

Sequin :: Sequin (n.) An old gold coin of Italy and Turkey. It was first struck at Venice about the end of the 13th century, and afterward in the other Italian cities, and by the Levant trade was introduced into Turkey. It is worth about 9s. 3d. sterling, or about $2.25. The different kinds vary somewhat in value..

Twelvepence :: Twelvepence (n.) A shilling sterling, being about twenty-four cents..

Easterling :: Easterling (n.) A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. of England.

Sterling :: Sterling (n.) Any English coin of standard value; coined money.

Tester :: Tester (n.) An old French silver coin, originally of the value of about eighteen pence, subsequently reduced to ninepence, and later to sixpence, sterling. Hence, in modern English slang, a sixpence; -- often contracted to tizzy. Called also teston..

Plum :: Plum (n.) A handsome fortune or property; formerly, in cant language, the sum of £100,000 sterling; also, the person possessing it..

Pony :: Pony (n.) Twenty-five pounds sterling.

Sterling :: Sterling (a.) Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used..

Pardo :: Pardo (n.) A money of account in Goa, India, equivalent to about 2s. 6d. sterling. or 60 cts..

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

Crown :: Crown (n.) A coin stamped with the image of a crown; hence,a denomination 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..

Sesterce :: Sesterce (n.) A Roman coin or denomination of money, in value the fourth part of a denarius, and originally containing two asses and a half, afterward four asses, -- equal to about two pence sterling, or four cents..

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