silverling noun2 •Shekel or small silvern coin of little value.As for those Samnites, and the men of Uz, That bought my Spanish oils and wines of Greece, Here have I purs'd their paltry silverlings. Fie, what a trouble 'tis to count this trash! — 1589 •Baccharis halimifolia, a shrub of the aster family. formssilverlings