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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.
     

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Farthing \Far"thing\, n. [OE. furthing, AS. fe['o]r[eth]ung, fr.
     fe['o]r[eth]a fourth, fe['o]r, fe['o]wer, four. See Four.]
     1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great
        Britain, being a cent in United States currency.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     2. A very small quantity or value. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              In her cup was no farthing seen of grease.
                                                    --Chaucer.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A division of land. [Obs.]
        [1913 Webster]
  
              Thirty acres make a farthing land; nine farthings a
              Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee.
                                                    --R. Carew.
        [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Farthing \Far"thing\, n. [OE. furthing, AS. fe['o]r[eth]ung, fr.
     fe['o]r[eth]a fourth, fe['o]r, fe['o]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 WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  farthing
       n : a former British bronze coin worth a quarter of a penny

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  farthing
     n.
     1 (lb en historical) Former British unit of currency worth
  one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
     2 (lb en figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least
  possible amount.
     3 (lb en obsolete) A division of land.

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Farthing
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  farthing
     n.
     1 (lb en historical) Former British unit of currency worth
  one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
     2 (lb en figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least
  possible amount.
     3 (lb en obsolete) A division of land.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Farthing
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  farthing
     n.
     1 (lb en historical) Former British unit of currency worth
  one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
     2 (lb en figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least
  possible amount.
     3 (lb en obsolete) A division of land.

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Farthing
     n.
     (surname: en).

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  farthing
     n.
     1 (lb en historical) Former British unit of currency worth
  one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this.
     2 (lb en figurative) A very small quantity or value; the least
  possible amount.
     3 (lb en obsolete) A division of land.

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Farthing
     n.
     (surname: en).

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  farthing
     Englanti n.
     vuoteen 1961 brittiläinen kolikko jonka arvo oli 1/4 pennyä

From German - English Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:deu-eng ]

  Farthing /fˈaɾtɪŋ/ 
  farthing 
     Synonym: Viertelpenny
  

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Farthing /fˈɑːθɪŋ/
  ربع البنس

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  farthing //ˈfɑː(ɹ).ðɪŋ// 
  фартинг
  former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  farthing /fˈɑːθɪŋ/
  čtvrtpenny

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  farthing /fˈɑːθɪŋ/
  Farthing , Viertelpenny 

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  farthing /fˈɑːθɪŋ/
  četvrt penija

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  farthing /fˈɑːθɪŋ/
  fitying

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  farthing /ˈfɑ:ðɪŋ/ 
    [dawne]  ćwierć pensa

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  farthing /fˈɑːθɪŋ/
  1. çeyrek peni (eski biringiliz parası) It isn't worth a farthing. Beş para etmez.

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈfɑɹðɪŋ/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  141 Moby Thesaurus words for "farthing":
     a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, ace, atom,
     bagatelle, bauble, bawbee, bean, bibelot, bit, brass farthing,
     button, cent, crown, curio, dab, dole, dollar, dot, dram, dribble,
     driblet, dwarf, farce, feather, fig, fiver, fleabite, fleck,
     florin, flyspeck, folderol, fourpence, fourpenny, fourth,
     fourth part, fragment, fribble, frippery, gaud, gewgaw, gimcrack,
     gobbet, grain, granule, groat, guinea, hair, half crown,
     half dollar, halfpenny, handful, hill of beans, iota, jest, joke,
     jot, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, little, little bit, mag,
     meg, minikin, minim, minimum, minutiae, mite, mockery, modicum,
     molecule, molehill, monkey, mote, new pence, np, nutshell,
     one-fourth, ounce, p, particle, pebble, pence, penny, peppercorn,
     picayune, pin, pinch, pinch of snuff, pinprick, pittance, point,
     pony, pound, quart, quarter, quartern, quarto, quid, rap, red cent,
     row of pins, rush, scruple, shilling, shit, sixpence, smidgen,
     smitch, snap, sneeshing, sou, speck, spoonful, spot, straw, tenner,
     thimbleful, threepence, threepenny bit, thrippence, tiny bit,
     tittle, toy, trifle, trifling amount, trinket, trivia, triviality,
     tuppence, twenty-five cents, twenty-five percent, two bits,
     two cents, twopence, whim-wham, whit
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  n. 1/4辨士,英国最小的钱币;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     n. 1/4便士,英国最小的钱币

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