far 
MHG. verre (MHG. rarely verne, G. always /mi, 
with adverbial -) = Icel. fjarri = Goth, fairra, 
far, at a distance ; partly merged in some lan- 
guages with the deriv. adv., AS. feorran, from 
far, from afar, from a distance. ME./erren,/eor- 
ren,ferrene,ferne, from far (with a prep., offer- 
rene, oferrom, fro feme, afar, from far), = OS. 
farran, ferrate, from far, = MHG. rente, G.fern, 
far (see above), = Sw.fjerran, afar, = Dtai.jjern, 
a., far, fjernt, adv., far ; = Gr. vepav, on the other 
side, across (L. trans), irepa, beyond, across, over 
(L. ultra), = Skt. paras, beyond, para, to a dis- 
tance. Remotely related to for, for-, fore, fore-, 
forth*-, etc., per-, tire-, pro-, etc. The normal 
compar.and superf.forms, namely, compar. far- 
rer (< ME./errer, really a double compar., more 
commonly ferre, firrc,furre,fyrre, rarely farrc, 
and in one syllable fir, fur, far (being thus 
identified in form with the positive), < AS. 
fyrre, fyr, fier, umlauted and abbr. from *feor- 
ror, compar. of feorr, fcor, far), and superl. /ac- 
res* (< M.E.ferrest, < AS.fyrrest, umlauted from 
"feorrost, superl. of feorr, feor, far), are rare 
or obs. in mod. E., their place being taken by 
farther and farthest, which are found only in 
mod. E., and are due to confusion with further 
and furthest : see farther, further. The adj. far 
is from the adv.] 1. At or by a great distance ; 
so as to be remote, or at a distant or advanced 
point, in place, time, progress, etc. : as, how far 
(by how great a distance) away is it? it is far 
(or not far) off; he is far along on his journey 
or in his studies. 
And the king went forth . . . and tarried in a place that 
was far off. 2 Sain. xv. 17. 
They sent back missives representing that they were 
far within the enemies' frontier, and it was dangerous 
either to pause or turn back. Ircinff, Granada, p. 51. 
2. To a great distance or extent; so as to at- 
tain or extend to a distant or advanced point; 
for, over, or through a long way: as, how far 
(to how great a distance) did you go? to travel 
far; to look/ar into the future; /or-reaching 
designs. 
Now have I tolde you of Wayes, by the whyche men gon 
ferrest and longest. Atandeville, Travels, p. 125. 
When unto the guid church she came, 
She at the door did stan' ; . . . 
She coudna come farer ben [in]. 
Youny Akin (Child's Ballads, I. 188). 
3. By a long interval or a great distance ; so as 
to be widely separated: as, their paths lay/ar 
apart; he iafar removed from want. 
Far, far removed, dark in the dreary grave. 
Charlotte Bronte. 
4. From a great distance; from afar: as in the 
compound far-fetched (which see). 5. At a 
great remove ; a long way ; very remote : used 
elliptical ly with reference to space, time, de- 
gree, scope, purpose, desire, etc. : as, it is far 
(distant or away) from here ; people both far 
(off) aud near (by or at hand); he was far 
(away) from the attainment of his object. 
The whiche is knowyn \iot\ieferrc and nere, 
A myghti prince, a man of gret powre. 
Oenerydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 622. 
Beante, Mygt, amyable chere 
To alle Men ferre and neere. 
Arthur (ed. Furnivall), 1. 34. 
The ferreste in his parissche, moche and lite. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 494. 
Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, 
Be it/ar from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. 
Mat. xvi. 22. 
Will you not speak at all? are you so far 
From kind words ? 
Beau, and Ft., King and No King, iii. 1. 
The nations .far and near contend in choice. Dryden. 
He was/or from approving his adoption of the monastic 
life. Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 5. 
6. To or by a great degree ; in a great propor- 
tion; by many degrees; very much; largely; 
widely: as,/ar better; far worse; far other; 
far different. 
Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far 
above rubies. Prov. xxxi. 10. 
The night is far spent, the day is at hand. Rom. xiii. 12. 
Some of them are so far gone with their private enthu- 
siasms and revelations that they are quite mad. 
Burton, Anat. of Mel., p. 627. 
So thou, fair city, . . . lovelier far 
Than in that panoply of war. 
Scott, Marmion, Int. to v. 
Far other was the song that once I heard 
By this huge oak. Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
7t. Long; a long time. 
Ac it is ferre agoo in seynt Fraunceys tyme. 
Piere Ploivman (B), xv. 226. 
As far as, to the distance, extent, or degree that : as, that 
is good as far as it goes. 
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Yet as ferre as y can or may 
Of here beaute sum-what too say 
I will applye my wittes all. 
Political Poems, etc. (ed. Furnivall), p. 49. 
In my last I fulfilled your Lordship's Commands, as far 
ajt my Reading and Knowledge could extend. 
Uomlt, Letters, ii. 66. 
As far as might be, to carve out 
Free space for every human donbt. 
Tennttson, Two Voices. 
By far, in a great degree ; very much. 
Ther is a surgisne in this sege that softe can handle, 
And more of phisyke uifer and fairer he plastreth. 
Piers Ploifman (B), xx. 312. 
And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far 
To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar." 
Scott, Young Lochinvar. 
Far away, far and away, see away. 
A manuscript by a new author, which he declared to be 
far and im-uii the best humorous story that had been 
written for years. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 16. 
Far forth. See far- forth. From far, from a great dis- 
tance ; from a remote place. 
Suinme ther ben that comen fro ferr, and in goynge 
toward this Ydole, at every thrydde pas that the! gon fro 
here Hows, thei knelen. MandevUle, Travels, p. 174. 
Madam, I see from farre a horseman coming; 
This way he bends his speed. 
Heywood, If you Know not Me, i. 
But now the trumpet, terrible from far, 
In shriller clangours animates the war. 
Addison, The Campaign. 
Ill be far (or farther) if I do. I will not do it : obsolete, 
the phrase now in use being I'll see J/OM farther first. See 
farther. In SO far as, in the degree that ; to such an 
extent as. 
In so far as the college teaches religion, it must do so 
with the utmost candor. The Atlantic, LXI. 725. 
To be far ben with one, to bring far ben. See&eni. 
far 1 (far), a. ; compar. farther and further, 
superl. farthest and furthest (see far 1 , adv.). 
[Also dial, fer, fur ; early mod. E. farre, < ME. 
fer, ferr, rarely far, < AS. feorr, feor, a., from 
the adv. , far, distant. The compar. and superl. 
farther and farthest are mod., as in the adv. 
forms. Compar. farrer (earlier farre, < ME. 
ferre, < AS. fyrra, firra) and superl. f arrest (< 
ME. ferreste, farreste, < AS. 'fyrresta) are now 
hardly to be found.] 1. Situated or being at 
a great distance in space or time; distant; re- 
mote; far off or away: as, a far place ; the far 
future. [Now rare with reference to place.] 
We he come from a/ar country. Josh. ix. 6. 
My blood 
Hath earnest in it of far springs to be. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
2. Extending to a great distance; prolonged 
or reaching to a distant point; protracted; 
long : as, far sight ; a/ar look ahead. 
O I am going a far journey, 
Some strange conntrie to see. 
LordLotxl (Child's Ballads, II. 162). 
3. Remote in degree or relation ; distantly con- 
nected. [Rare.] 
Sir Torre . . . 
Past up the still rich city to his kin, 
His own/r blood, which dwelt at Camelot. 
Tennyson, Lancelot and Elaine. 
4. More distant of the two : as, the far side of a 
horse (that is, the right or off side, as the rider 
always mounts on the left): sometimes used 
in place-names: as, Far Rockaway. A far cry. 
See en/. 
far 1 (far), v. t. ; pret. and pp. faired, ppr. far- 
ring. [< far 1 , adv.] To remove far distant; 
banish. [Prov. Eng.] 
I'm sure I wish the man were farred who plagues his 
brains wi' striking out new words. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, x. 
far 2 (far), . [E. dial., = farrow 1 , q. v.] The 
young of swine, or a litter of pigs. [Local, 
Eng.] 
far-aboutt (far'a-bout"), . A going far out 
of the way : used literally or figuratively. 
What need these far-abouts? Fuller, Holy War, p. 280. 
farad (far'ad), n. [So called in honor of the 
chemist Michael Faraday (1791-1867). Cf. am- 
pere, ohm, volt.~\ The electromagnetic unit of 
capacity of electricity. It is the capacity of a con- 
denser which when charged with a difference of potential 
of one volt has a charge of one coulomb. In practice the 
microfarad, the millionth of a farad, is more conveniently 
employed. The latter is the capacity of about three miles 
of an ocean cable. 
Faradaic (far-a-da'ik), a. [< Faraday + -ic: 
see faradism.] 1. Pertaining to Faraday, the 
English physicist. 2. [I. c.] Pertaining to the 
phenomena of electricity especially investi- 
gated by Faraday for example, the phenom- 
ena of induction. Seefaradic. 
Ferrier states that Faradaic irri tatiou causes movements 
of the eyeballs and other movements indicative of vertigo. 
Encyc. Brit., XIX. 38. 
farand 
Tetanus produced by faradaic electricity is not of the 
nature of an apparently single and prolonged contraction. 
0. J. Jtomanes, Jelly-fish, etc., p. 48. 
Faradaic current, in elect., an induced current, in con- 
tradistinction to a direct one. 
faradaism (far'a-da-izm), n. [< Faraday (see 
farad) + -ism.] Same M faradisation, 
faradic (fa-rad'ik), a. [< farad + -ic.] Per- 
taining to induced electric currents obtained 
from a variety of machines some of them 
magneto-electric, composed of a revolving mag- 
net and coils of wires, others of a cell (giving a 
galvanic current) and coils. The faradic machine 
now in common medical use is a form of induction coil 
consisting of a primary coil through which a current is 
sent from a voltaic cell, and a secondary coil surround- 
ing the primary, in which brief but intense cm-rents are 
induced in alternatingdirections by the automatic making 
and breaking of the primary urn-nut. See induction and 
induction-^oil. 
faradism (far'a-dizm), n. [< farad + -ism.] 
The form of electricity furnished by a faradic 
machine. 
faradization (far'a-di-za'shon), n. l<faradize 
+ -ation.] Inphysiol., the stimulation of a nerve 
with induced currents of electricity. 
faradize (far'a-diz), v. t. ; pret. and pp. fara- 
di:ed,\>fe.faradizing. [<Jarad-ic + -ize,] To 
stimulate, as a muscle, with induced electric 
currents. 
Muscles which were previously sluggish, after being 
thoroughly kneaded, would contract far more readily when 
faradizi'd. Weir Mitchell, Injuries of >"erves, p. 250. 
faradizer (far'a-di-zer), n. An instrument em- 
ployed in faradization. 
farallon (fa-ral-yon'), >; pi- farallones (-ydnz' 
or, in Sp. manner, -yo'nes). [Sp.] A lofty 
rocky islet rising precipitously from the sea. 
Generally used in the plural, because such islets frequent- 
ly occur in groups; and there are several such groups on 
the American coast bearing this name. That best known 
is the one called the Farallones, in the Pacific, about 35 
miles west of Sail Francisco. 
Farancia (fa-ran'si-a), n. [NL. (J. E. Gray, 
1842); prob. a nonsense-name.] A genus of 
innocuous serpents, of the family Colubridte 
and subfamily Calamariiiue. F. abaaira is a com- 
mon species in the southern United States, of a deep-red 
Wampum-snake (Farancia atracura). 
color below with dark spots, above bluish-black, with a 
row of square red spots on each side. It is called the horn- 
snake, red-bellied snake, and wampum-wake. 
farand (far'and), a. and n. [E. dial, alsofarant; 
< ME. farand, comely, handsome, i. e., appar. 
having a good favor or appearance, whence, in 
mod. Sc. use in comp. (see 2, below), appar. a 
contr. of ME. "favorand (E. favoring), ppr. of/- 
voren, favor, cf. Sc. far, fair, fere, appearance, a 
contr. of favor in that sense; cf. Sc.fard,fa'ard, 
favored ( ireel-fard is equiv. to iceel-farand) . The 
contracted inf. fare for favor is appar. later 
than the contracted ppr. : see /are 3 . The word 
seems to have been in part identical with ME. 
farand, farende (mod. E. faring), ppr. otfaren, 
E. fare, go ; evil- or ill-farand, weel-farand, be- 
ing equiv. to ill-faring, well-faring, referred to 
fare 1 .) I. a. 1. Well favored; comely; hand- 
some; goodly. [Prov. Eng.] 
This watz [the] kynges countenaunce, where he in court 
were, 
At vch farand fest among his fre meny. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 101. 
Quhar Nele and Bruyss come, and the Queyn, 
And othir ladyis fayr &n& farand. 
Barbour, ii. 614, MS. (Jamieson.) 
2. Having a certain specified favor or appear- 
ance; appearing; seeming: generally used in 
composition with a specific term, fair, foul, evil, 
ill, well (weel), old (auld), etc. : as, auld-farand, 
old-seeming: applied to a child who manifests 
more sagacity than could be expected at his 
time of life. [Scotch.] 
Lykly he was, rycht fair and weiil farrand. 
Wallace, vi. 781, MS. (Jamieson.) 
And he looks aye sae wistfu' the whiles I explain. 
He's as auld as the hills he's an auld-farrant wean. 
William Miller, The Womlerfu' Wean. 
II. n. Manners; humor. [Prov. Eng.] 
