Farthing
['fɑːðɪŋ] or ['fɑrðɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny.
Typed by Geraldine--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
(n.) A very small quantity or value.
(n.) A division of land.
Typed by Keller
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fourth part of a penny.
Typist: Remington
Definition
n. the fourth of a penny: anything very small: (B.) the rendering for two names of coins one the fourth part of the other—assarion used as the Gr. equivalent of the L. as and kodrantes (L. quadrans) a coin equivalent to two lepta.—n. Far′thingful.
Editor: Verna
Examples
- The times are as tight as can be; everybody is being ruined; and I don't believe Lydgate has got a farthing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mr. Ablewhite, senior, refused to lend his son a farthing. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And yet they hang about my uncle like vultures, and are afraid of a farthing going away from their side of the family. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Since that imprudent transaction, they have received from it--not one farthing! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Not lost,' said Jingle hastily, 'Pay it all--stick to business--cash up--every farthing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Yet of course, her cynicism knew well enough that, in a world where spurious coin was current, a bad sovereign was better than a bad farthing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- No, said her father; Wickham's a fool if he takes her with a farthing less than ten thousand pounds. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- There was something quite diabolical in not leaving him a farthing after all. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Not a farthing more,' was the firm reply of Mr. Limbkins. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- I believe Mrs. Bardell specially said, however,' observed Fogg, glancing at Dodson, 'that she would not compromise for a farthing less. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- She shall never leave me, until we are ruined utterly ourselves, which does not seem far off, or until I can pay her the utmost farthing. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She hasn't a farthing. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Not a copper farthing's worth of it! Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- That is to say, not one farthing of the twenty thousand pounds was to go to Miss Halcombe, or to any other relative or friend of Lady Glyde's. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Take care of your farthings, old Tinker, and your guineas will come quite nat'ral. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You may be sure it's Sir Pitt Crawley, young woman, said Mrs. Tinker, surlily; because he looks to his farthings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Checker: Trent