(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) During her pregnancy, it is likely the duchess will be attended to by the Queen's gynaecologist, who is currently Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered television presenter Jill Dando.
(2) valedemoses.com B £ Wellbeing in the raw, North Yorkshire Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: PR The women-only Healthily Happy Retreat, led by raw food expert Dr Claire Maguire at Split Farthing Hall, the 18th-century countryside base of Raw Horizons , mixes a daily 90-minute class of kundalini yoga with two daily 90-minute sessions covering wellbeing coaching, chakra balancing, aromatherapy and healthy chocolate-making.
(3) The one at Blists Mill, part of the Ironbridge Gorge world heritage site in Shropshire, lets children pay in Victorian shillings and farthings (which you can get in the bank on arrival).
(4) Michael Farthing: 'I celebrate our active student body' Read more “Group work came up time and time again as a problem,” he says.
(5) She is being treated by the Queen's current surgeon-gynaecologist, Alan Farthing, and his predecessor, Marcus Setchell.
(6) On 5 August 1878, the Bicycle Touring Club – one of Britain's first cycling clubs – was formed inside the pub when a Scotsman called Stanley Cotterell pedalled his penny farthing all the way from Edinburgh to meet like-minded "velocipede enthusiasts" from around the UK.
(7) Barrow, who also pressed by another Conservative MP, Jacob Rees-Mogg, to say whether the UK would pay “a brass farthing” to the EU, replied that a recent Lords committee report asserting there was no legal need to pay any exit fee to the EU was “very helpful and had been noticed in Brussels”.
(8) Clearly customers need to take advice, but millennials are not going to take kindly to the authorities using a law that pre-dates the penny-farthing to tell them what they can or can’t do on the streets of Britain”.
(9) "Direct response television campaigns such as the one featuring baby Miles in a cot, that clearly and simply state the problem of child abuse and the need for people to donate in a clear and powerful way, have been proven to resonate most with our donors," Farthing says.
(10) Whistler won, but was awarded risible damages of one farthing.
(11) But director of fundraising Paul Farthing says the charity has tested a range of approaches and advertising styles for television and its observations are conclusive.
(12) Sophie Farthing from the civil rights pressure group Liberty said the recommendations appeared "very strong".
(13) Walsh added: "The boys in the band didn't receive a farthing, the Christian Brothers pocketed the money.
(14) In 1961, the farthing ceased to be legal tender in the UK.
(15) Also in attendance were Marcus Setchell, the Queen's former gynaecologist, who delivered both the Earl and Countess of Wessex's children, and also performed the Duchess of Cornwall's hysterectomy, and Alan Farthing, the current Queen's gynaecologist.
(16) The high-wheel bicycle, called the penny-farthing in Britain, had wire spoke tension wheels and proved hugely popular with the Victorians.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Cyclists prepare their penny-farthings for the Great Knutsford Penny Farthing Race.
(18) The Queen's gynaecologist, who is treating the duchess, is Alan Farthing, the former fiance of the murdered TV presenter Jill Dando.
(19) This flow--not taken into consideration so far--may explain caloric nystagmus in weightlessness as well as some difficult problems in caloric excitability on farth.
Mite
Definition:
(n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
(n.) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
Example Sentences:
(1) Where the guanine content was more than or equal to 0.25% in the dry dust, mite numbers were higher than 10 mites per 0.1 g dust in 43 of the 44 samples.
(2) The mites were resistant to coumaphos and sensitive to lindane.
(3) A more regular distribution of these mites on the animals points to the mixing of the mites population that effects the dissemination of agents.
(4) Mattress dusts from the beds of 51 asthmatic children with positive skin tests to house dust mite were assayed for Der p I, Fel d I and certain viable fungi.
(5) According to the quantitative analysis between threshold titers of skin test and RAST titers using house dust and HD mites allergens, specific IgE production shall be decreased in the patients over 40 years old.
(6) The heads were examined for adult and larval meningeal worms (Parelaphostrongylus tenuis) by physical examination of the brain surfaces, and the Baermann technique, respectively, and for ear mites by examination of ear scrapings.
(7) Female Coquillettidia perturbans collected in northern Florida were commonly parasitized by 2 species of water mites.
(8) Fifty asthmatics, candidates for hyposensitization with the house dust mite Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (Dp), went through a series of allergy tests to evaluate the sensitivity of different organs to Dp.
(9) Mite size was only one of the determinants of intermediate host efficiency.
(10) Inhalant allergens as mite house dust, animal danders, pollens, molds and food allergens are considered, now, to be the most sensitizing agents.
(11) Most patients showed several positive skin tests to common allergens particular to grass pollen, house dust and mites (Dermatophagoides pteronyssimus).
(12) Densities of mites were much higher in skin regions with severe dermatitis.
(13) The pathogenesis of the prolific mite population is unclear, but either a specific immunologic deficit or the inability to effectively eliminate the mites by scratching is a plausible possibility.
(14) Egg (embryo) production was normal for mites treated with 0.50 krad, but significantly curtailed by doses of 0.75 krad and greater.
(15) Serum was obtained from patients with nasal allergy receiving specific immunotherapy for housedust and mites.
(16) The frequency of mites in dust from farmers' homes was three times higher and that of pyroglyphids ten times higher than in other dwellings.
(17) The radioallergosorbent inhibition test, however, suggested that there may be no cross-reactivity or, if any, only very low cross-reactivity between midge allergens and mite, house dust (HD), silk, shrimp, or mosquito allergens.
(18) This impressive immunological effect was not associated with any changes in the radio-allergo-sorbent assay (RAST) to house dust mite, or symptom scores; peak expiratory flow rates or histamine induced bronchial reactivity.
(19) In addition to mesophilic species, xerophilic moulds appear to be common, often developing together with mites.
(20) Radioallergosorbent test (RAST) studies showed that IgE antibodies to Dermatophagoides pteronyssinus (house dust mite), Aspergillus fumigatus and bovine beta-lactoglobulin were significantly elevated in the sera of infants who died as a result of the sudden death in infancy syndrome (SDIS).