See Also: easterling(medicine)
Easterling(dictionary)

PRIVY (law) and easterling (medicine)


PRIVY (law)


PRIVY. One who is a partaker, or has an interest in any action, matter or thing. thing.

easterling (medicine)


easterling


1. A native of a country eastward of another; used, by the English, of traders or others from the coasts of the Baltic. "Merchants of Norway, Denmark, . . . Called . . . Easterlings because they lie east in respect of us." (Holinshed)

2. A piece of money coined in the east by Richard II. Of England.

3. <zoology> The smew.

Origin: Cf. Sterling.

Source: Websters Dictionary