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"La province ne lui avait jamais semble qu' une ferme avec 

 grange, pressoir et basse-cour, chargee de fournir ^ la consom- 

 mati on de Paris." Souvestre; Trois Mois de Vacances, 



Examples ; — 



Clifford's Farm. 



Castle Farm. 



Streatlam Farm — see Streatlam. 



Raby Farm — see Raby. 



Raby West Farm — cum multis aliis. 



Fell. 



Icel. '■'■ fjall, -pi. Jj'dll, a fell, mountain, a chain of mountains." 

 Cleasby. Dan. Jield, mountain ; ^'celd in Cleasby. 



Sw. fidll, alps, chain of mountains ; but in Ger. feld, is a field, 

 plain, and fels, rock ; Dut. veld, field, plain. 



A.-S. feld, fild, a field, pasture, plain; Fold, terra, solum, 

 humus, the ground. 



Fell does not occur in the Latin or Celtic languages ; and is a 

 purely northern word. Icel. and Scandinavian. It is frequent in 

 North England and Scotland. 



The Ger. feld, the Dut. veld, and the A.-S. feld, fild, fold, in- 

 dicate a flat place, a plain. 



" Fell, a precipitous rock, a wild rocky hill. Scotland and 

 North England." Jamieson. 



" High land, only fit for pasture. In plur. it denotes a chain 

 of steep hills. The whole of the tract of land throughout the 

 Cheviot Hills which is not ploughed is called ' the fells.'' " Ibid. 

 Suppl. 



" Fell. 2. A hill or mountain. North. Also a moor or open 

 waste ground, pasture, or any unenclosed space without many 

 trees." Halliwell. 



" Fell, a rocky hill, a mountain or common, scarcely admit- 

 ting of cultivation — frequently used for any moor or open waste, 

 though properly a high and alpine tract only." Brockett. 



" Fjcdl, rupes, petra; dicitur proprie de jugo montium et ru- 

 pium, atque in specie illorum qui hodie Norrwegiam a Suecia 



