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A very small quantity or value. [Obs.] In her cup was no farthing seen of grease. Chaucer.

end the petticoat. We'll revel it as bravely as the best, . . . With ruffs and cuffs, and farthingales and things. Shak.

A small portion of bread or beer; the quantity bought with a farthing or half farthing. [Obs.]

A small Dutch coin, worth about half a farthing; also, a similar small coin once used in Scotland; hence, any small piece of money. Shak.

A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. [Eng.] Smart.

A farthingale. [Obs.]

Hearth money. Fumage, or fuage, vulgarly called smoke farthings. Blackstone.

A Venetian coin, worth about three English farthings, or one and a half cents. [Obs.]

A suffix formerly used to form diminutives; as, lording, farthing.

A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)

A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ. Two mites, which make a farthing. Mark xii. 49.

ow of bronze, the twelfth part of an English shilling in account value, and equal to four farthings, or about two cents; -- usually indicated by the abbreviation d. (the initial of denarius).

about it. "To play pitch and toss with the property of the country." G. Eliot. -- Pitch farthing. See Chuck farthing, under 5th Chuck.

The fourth of a penny; a farthing. See Cur.

A small piece of money, in value about a farthing, or a half cent. [Obs.]

A half farthing. [Obs.]

cting buildings; construction. [R.] His son builds on, and never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent. J. Dryden, Jr.

An anglo-Saxon copper coin of the lowest value, being worth half a farthing. S. M. Leake.

See Farthingale. [Spelled also verdingall.] [Obs.]