farandly 
farandly, farantly (far'and-li, -ant-li), adv. [< 
ME. faraiidely ; ( farand + -ty 2 .] In an orderly 
manner; decently. Haltiwell. Alsofarrantly. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
farandola, farandole (fa-ran'do-la,-d61),. [= 
F.faraitdo/c, a rapid dance of Pr. origin, = mod. 
Pr. farandolo = Sp. fardndiila, a mean trade or 
calling, = Pg.farandtila,faraiidiilagcni,a,t\-itie, 
a gang of vagabonds, = It. dial, farandola.} 
A rapid dance, of Romance origin, consisting 
of various figures, based upon a circle of dan- 
cers facing alternately in and out and clasp- 
ing hands : much used in excited gatherings in 
France and in northern Italy. 
farantly, adv. See farandly. 
far-away (far'a-wa"), a. [= Sc. far-awa'; < 
faraway, adv.'phrase.] 1. Distant; remote. 
Far-awa' fowls hae fair feathers. Scotch proverb. 
Pate's mfar-awa' cousin o' mine. Scott, Rob Roy, xiv. 
The deacon had passed away a year before ; only Mrs. 
Tall and a far-away cousin were occupying the house. 
Itarper's May., LXXVII. 549. 
2. Abstracted; absent-minded; pensive. 
From that time there began to grow into his eyes & far- 
away look, as seeing the invisible. 
The Conyreyationalitt, July 14, 1887. 
far-between (fiir'be-twen*),a. Isolated; wide- 
ly separated in space or time : applied to several 
individuals. [Kare.] 
The peppering of fancy sportsmen, that have followed 
the far-between but more effectual shots of the borderer's 
rifle. JVeio Mirror (New York), III. (1843). 
farce 1 (fars), . t. ; pret. and pp. farced, ppr. 
farcing. [Early mod. E. also farse; < ME. far- 
cen (= D/Yarcecen = G. farciren = Dan. far- 
cere), < OF. farsir, farcir, F. farcir = Pr. far- 
sir, frasir, ( L. farcire, pp. fartus, sometimes 
farctus, later farcitus, and farsus, stuff, cram, 
fill full, = Gr. Qpdaoetv, shut in, inclose. Cf. 
/orceS.] If. To stuff; cram. 
His typet was ayfarsed fill of knyves 
And pinnes for to geven fayre wy ves. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 233. 
Specifically 2. In cookery, to stuff, as a pud- 
diug, fowl, or roast, with various meats, oysters, 
bread, or other ingredients, variously flavored 
or spiced ; fill with stuffing. 
If Any fame a Henue, the needle must be threeded the 
day before, and the threed must be burned, not bitten or 
broken asunder. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 207. 
3. Figuratively, to fill, as a speech or written 
composition, with various scraps of wit or hu- 
mor; make "spicy." 
They could wish your poets would leave to be promot- 
ers of other men's jests, and way-lay all the stale apoph- 
thegms or old books they can hear of (in print or other- 
wise), to farce their scenes withal. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, Ind. 
These invectives were well farced for the gross taste of 
the multitude. /. D' Israeli, Calam. of Authors, II. 374. 
4f. To extend ; swell out. 
'Tls not . . . 
The farced title running 'fore the king, 
The throne he sits on, nor the tide of pomp 
That beats upon the high shore of this world. 
Shale., Hen. V., iv. 1. 
5f. To fatten. 
If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs with it too, they 
would not, like ragged laths, rub out so many doublets as 
they do. B. Jowon, Every Man out of his Humour, v. 4. 
farce 1 (fars), n. [= G. Dan. farce = Sw. fars, 
< F. farce, stuffing, a farce (> Sp. It. farsa = 
Pg./arja, a farce), < farcer, stuff: see farce 1 , v.'] 
1. A secular dramatic composition of a ludi- 
crous or satirical character ; low comedy, ori- 
ginally the name (/nrsta) was applied to a canticle in a 
mixture of Latin and French, sung in many churches at the 
principal festivals, especially on Christmas. The modern 
farce is: (a) A dramatic composition of a broadly comic 
character, differing from other comedy chiefly in the gro- 
tesqueness and exaggeration of its characters and inci- 
dents, (o) An opera in one act, of an absurd, extravagant, 
or ludicrous character. 
Counsale flndis it necessar and expedient that the litill 
farsche. and play maid be William Lander be playit afoir 
the Quenis Grace. 
Quoted in Lander's Dewtle of Kyngis (E. E. T. S.), Pref., 
[p. vi. 
Farce is that in poetry which grotesque is in a picture ; 
the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and 
the manners false. 
Dryden, Parallel of Poetry and Painting. 
My notion of a/rerce is a short piece in one act, contain- 
ing a single comic idea, of course considerably expanded, 
but without anything that can really be called a plot. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 129. 
The Egyptians are often amused by players of low and 
ridiculuus/arrcu, who are called Mohhabbazee'n. 
K. Vi. Lane, Modern Egyptians, II. 111. 
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2. Ridiculous parade ; absurd pageantry; fool- 
ish show. 
Let her see 
That all this mingled Mass which she, 
Being forbidden, longs to know, 
Is a dull farce and empty show. 
1'riur, An English Padlock. 
For Swift and him [ParnellJ, [thou hast] despised the/arce 
of state, 
The sober follies of the wise and great. 
Pope, Epistle to Earl of Oxford. 
3. A ridiculous sham. 
farce 2 t (fars), v. t. [A particular use of farce 1 
(ME./orce), or an error for fard. See fard, .] 
To paint. 
Farce not thy visage in no wise. 
Rom. of the Rote, 1. 2285. 
farcementt (fars'ment), n. [(farce + -went.] 
Stuffing for meat; 'force-meat. 
They often spoil a good dish with improper sawce and 
unsavoury farcements. FMham, Resolves. 
farceur (far-ser'), n. [= Sw.farsor, < F. far- 
ceur, ( farce, a farce: see/arce 1 .] A writer or 
player of farces ; a joker; a wag. 
farcical 1 (far'si-kal), a. [< farce 1 + -ic-al, after 
comical, etc.] Pertaining to or of the nature of 
a farce; droll; ludicrous; ridiculous; absurd. 
So that, whether the "Alchemist" be farcical or not, it 
will appear at least to have this note of farce, " that the 
principal character is exaggerated." 
Dp. Hurd, Province of the Drama, iv. 
They deny the characters to be farcical, because they 
are actually in nature. Gatj, What d'ye Call 't, Pref. 
He [the Bedouin] neither unfits himself for walking, nor 
distorts his ankles, by turning out his toes according to 
the/araco( rules of fashion. 
11. F. Burton, El-Medinah, p. 321. 
farcical 2 ! (far'si-kal), a. [(farcy + -ic-al, af- 
ter farcical 1 .'] Pertaining to farcy. [Rare.] 
I wish from my soul that every imitator in Great Britain, 
France, and Ireland, had the farcy for his pains ; and that 
there was a gooAfarcieal house large enough to hold, aye, 
and sublimate them ... all together. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, iv. 4. 
farcicality (far-si-kal'i-ti), n. ; pi. farcicalities 
(-tiz). [( farcical 1 + -ity.'] The character or 
quality of being farcical ; absurdity; something 
farcical or ridiculous. 
farcically (far'si-kal-i), adv. In a farcical man- 
ner; ludicrously. 
It is not necessary that, in order to do this, he should have 
recourse to images that are farcically low. Langhorne. 
farcicalness (far'si-kal-nes), . Same as farci- 
cality. 
farcilitet (far'si-Ht), n. [Irreg. < K farce 1 (with 
ref. to force-meat.) + Gr. Ai'Sof, a stone.] Pud- 
ding-stone. Kirwan. 
farciment (far'si-men), n. [< LL. farciminum, 
a disease of horses and other animals, supposed 
to be costiveness (f), (farcire, stuff, cram: see 
farce 1 . Cf. farcin.] Same &s farcy. 
farcint (far'sin), n. [Also, and now usually, 
farcy, dial, corruptly fashion; ( WE.farcin,far- 
syn, ( OF. farcin, F. farcin = It. farcino, farcy, 
< LL. farciminum, a disease of horses: see/ar- 
cimen.'] Same as farcy. 
It cometh moste comuneliche aboute the houndes ers 
an yn hure legges, than yn any other places, as ttiefarsyn, 
and sit this is wors to be hool. 
Bodl. MS., 546. (Halliwell.) 
farcingt (far'sing), . [Early mod. Fj.farsyng; 
verbal n. of farce 1 , v. t.~] Stuffing composed of 
mixed ingredients ; force-meat. 
Neuer was there puddyng stuffed so full of farsynge as 
his holye feelynge faythefull folke are farsed full of here- 
sies. Sir T. More, Works, p. 614. 
farctate (fark'tat), a. [< NL. farctatus, ( L. 
farctus, stuffed, pp. otfarcire, stuff : see/arce 1 .] 
In bot,, stuffed; crammed or full; without va- 
cuities: opposed to tubular or hollow: as, a farc- 
tate leaf, stem, or pericarp. Also applied to 
the stipes of Agaricini. [No longer technically 
used.] 
farcy (far'si), n. [Early mod. E. also farcie; 
abbr. of farcin, q. v.] A disease of horses ; a 
form of equinia. See equinia. 
Fire is good for the farcie. 
Ray, Proverbs, 2d ed., p. 367. 
farcy-bud (far'si-bud), n. A swollen lymphatic 
gland, as in farcy. 
fardt (fard), n. [< F. fard, paint, rouge, < OHG. 
farawa, MHG. varwe, G. farbe (= AS. fterlie = 
D. vervi = Dan. farve = Sw. fiirg), color, hue, 
< OHG. faro (faraw-), MHG. var (varw-), a., 
colored.] Color; paint, as applied to the com- 
plexion. 
A certain gay glosse or/arrfc. 
Palsgrave, Acolastus (1540). 
fare 
These present us with the Skeleton of History, not mere- 
ly clothed with muscles, animated with life, . . . but . . . 
rubbed with Spanish woul, painu-il with Fix-rich /arrf. 
Wlutaker, Review ol 'Gibbon's Hist. 
fardt (fard), v. t. [< F. farder = Pr. fardar, 
paint, rouge, < F. fard, n., paint, rouge : see 
fard, .] To paint, as the cheeks: as, "the 
fardcd t'op," Shenstone. 
He founil that beauty which he had left innocent/arded 
and sophisticated with some court-drug. 
A. Wilson, Hist. James I. 
fardage (fftr'daj), n. [< F. fardage (= Sp. far- 
dajc = Pg.fardagem = It.fardaggio, luggage), 
(fardeau, a load (see fardel 1 ), + -age.'] Want., 
loose wood or other substances, as horns, ratan, 
coir, etc., stowed among the parts of a cargo to 
chock it, or placed below dry cargo to keep it 
from bilge-water; dunnage. 
far-dayt (far'da), n. The advanced part of the 
day. 
The manna was not good 
After sun-rising ; far-day sullies Mowers. 
II. Vaughan, Silex Scintillans, Rules and Lessons. 
far-death (far'deth), n. Natural death. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
fardelif, fardlet (far'del, -dl), n. [< ME. far- 
del, < OF. fardel, F. fardeau = Pr. fardel = 
It. fardello (ML. fardelhts), < Sp. Pg. fardel, 
a pack, bundle, dim. of Sp. Pg. fardo, a pack, 
bundle: said to be of Ar. origin, < fardah, a 
package (Devic).] A bundle or pack; aburden; 
hence, anything cumbersome or irksome. 
Who would fardels bear, 
To grunt and sweat under a weary life? 
Shak., Hamlet, HI. 1. 
They took out of the foresaid ship from Roger Hood 
one fardel of cloth, and one chest with diners goods. 
Hakhiyt's Voyages, I. 170. 
Under one of these arches we reposed ; the stones our 
beds, am fardels the bolster. Sandys, Travailes, p. 90. 
fardel 1 !, fardlet (far'del, -dl), r. t. [< OF. far- 
dcler, fardeller, bundle, (fardel, a bundle: see 
fardel 1 , fardle, n. Hence, by contra/art 1 , q.v.] 
To make up in packs or bundles. 
Things orderly fardled up under heads are most porta- 
ble. Fuller, Holy State, p. 164. 
farde! 2 t (far'del), n. [Al 
a corruption of ME. fertile (orfeorthe) del (= D. 
vierendeel = MHG. vierteil, G. viertel = ODan. 
fjerddel, Dan. fjerdedel = Sw. fjerdedel), fourth 
part : see fourth and deal 1 .'] A fourth part : an 
old law term Fardel of land, a measure of land, 
the fourth part of a yard-land. 
fardel-bound (far'del-bound), a. [Also, cor- 
ruptly, farthing-bound; appar. < fardel 1 , a load, 
-t- bound 3 .'] Costive; specifically, in vet. surg., 
affected, as cattle and sheep, with a disease 
caused by the retention of food in the many- 
plies or third stomach, between the numerous 
plaits of which it is impacted. The organ becomes 
gorged, and ultimately affected with chronic inflamma- 
tion. Over-ripe clover, rye-grass, or vetches are likely to 
produce the disease. Also clue-bound, 
farder, fardest. Obsolete or dialectal forms 
of farther, farthest. 
farding 1 (far'ding), n. [See farthing, farding- 
deal.] An obsolete or dialectal form of far- 
thing. 
farding 2 t (far'ding), n. [Verbal n. of fard, .] 
Painting the face; the use of cosmetics. 
Truth is a matron ; error a curtizan ; the matron cares 
onely to concile love by a grave and gracefnll modesty, 
the curtizan with philtres and fardinq. 
Up. Hall, Sermon at Thebald, Sept. 15, 1628. 
fardingale 1 (far'ding-gal), n. Same as farthin- 
gale. 
fardingale"t, A corrupt form of fardingdeal. 
farding-bag (fiir'ding-bag), n. The first stom- 
ach of a cow or other ruminant, where green 
food lies until it is regurgitated to be chewed 
again ; the paunch or rumen. 
fardingdealt (ftir'ding-del), n. [Also written 
fardingdale, farthingdale, fartlieiidele, farundel 
(audfardel 2 , q. v.); < farding 1 (ME.ferding, ML. 
ferdingun), or farthing, + deal 1 , ME. del, part 
(seefarthing, 2, and deal 1 ), but orig. (ME. ) fertile 
del, i. e., fourth ideal: see fardel 2 .'] A measure 
of land, one fourth of an acre, now a rood. 
Ifarthendele or rood of land. 
T. Hill, Arithmetic (1600), fol. 67 a, 
fardlet, n. and v. See fardel 1 . 
fare 1 (far), v. i. ; pret. and pp. fared, ppr. far- 
ing. [< ME. faren (pret. for, pp. faren), go (in 
the widest use), be in a particular condition, < 
AS. faran (pret. for, pl.foron, pp. faren), go, 
travel, etc., be in a particular condition, fare, 
= OS. faran = OFries. fara = D. raren = MLG. 
LG. faren = OHG. faran, MHG. faren, raren, 
G. fahren = Icel. fnrn = Sw. fara = Dan. fare 
