Farthing : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Farthing	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Farthing
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
farthing n a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Farthing \Far"thing\, n. [OE. furthing, AS. fe[a2]r[edh]ung, fr. fe[a2]r[edh]a fourth, fe[a2]r, fe[a2]wer, four. See {Four}.] 1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency. 2. A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. --Chaucer. 3. A division of land. [Obs.] Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee. --R. Carew.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Farthing (1.) Matt. 10:29; Luke 12:6. Greek assarion, i.e., a small _as_, which was a Roman coin equal to a tenth of a denarius or drachma, nearly equal to a halfpenny of our money. (2.) Matt. 5:26; Mark 12:42 (Gr. kodrantes), the quadrant, the fourth of an _as_, equal to two lepta, mites. The lepton (mite) was the very smallest copper coin.