far-forth 
1. Far on; far forward; in an advanced degree 
or extent. 
Now be we so far-forthe come, 
Spfke mute we of the dome. 
.,>'. Lilldl, 416, f. 11B. (Hall/mil.} 
Xe none agayne luifarrefiiortlie in her fauour 
That is full satisfyed with her behauiour. 
Sir T. More, To Them that Seke Fortune. 
He sayd not such words, nor spake so far-furth in tin- 
matter, without commission. Ilakluyt's Voiia'jen, II. 88. 
So long these knights discoursed diversly 
Of straunge affaires, and noble hardline nt, . . . 
That now the humid night was farforth spent. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. ix. 53. 
2. Far; to or in such a degree or extent: in 
the adverbial conjunctive phrases as, or so, far- 
furth as, where the words are now usually sepa- 
rated, forth being expletive. 
Youre bak eke in no way 
Turue on no wihte, asferforthe as ye may. 
Babeei Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 4. 
He is descendid of an high lenage, 
And as fer furth an I canne fele and see, 
He waytith after right grete heritage. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 2439. 
So far.foorth as those writers which are come to our 
hands haue left recorded. Haklmjt'a Vuijayei, I. 553. 
farin (far'in), n. [< F. farine, < L. farina : see 
farina.'] Same as farina. 
farina (fa-re'na or -ri'na), n. [= F. farine = 
Pr. Sp. It. farina = Pg. farinha, < L. farina, 
ground corn, meal, flour, < far (furr-), a sort of 
grain, spelt, also coarse meal, grits, = AS. bere, 
E. bear 3 , barley: see bear 3 , barley^.] 1. In a 
general sense, meal or flour. Specifically 2. 
A soft, tasteless, and commonly white flour, 
obtained by trituration of the seeds of cereal 
and leguminous plants, and of some roots, as 
the potato. It consists of gluten, starch, and 
mucilage. 3. A preparation of white maize 
in granular form, coarser than meal, but finer 
than hominy. It is used for puddings, etc. 
[U. S.] 4. In bot., the pollen of flowers. 
This is divided into many cells which contain a great 
number of small seeds covered with a red farina. 
Granger, The Sugar-Cane, iv. , note. 
5. In entom., a mealy powder found on some 
insects. See farinose, 3 Fossil farina, a variety 
of calcium carbonate, in thin white crusts, light as cotton, 
and easily reducible to powder. 
farina-boiler (fa-re'na-boi*ler), n. A saucepan 
or kettle used for cooking farinaceous articles, 
or any delicate food liable to scorch, it consists 
of two vessels, the outer one for water, and the inner 
one for the article to be cooked. [U. S.] 
farinaceous (far-i-na'shius), a. [= Sp. farind- 
ceo = It. farinaceo, < LL. farinaceus, < farina, 
meal: see farina.] 1. Consisting or made of 
meal or flour : as, & farinaceous diet, which con- 
sists of articles prepared from the meal or flour 
of the various species of corn or grain. 
When one huge wooden bowl before them stood, 
Fill'd with huge balls at farinaceous food. 
Crabbe, Works, IV. 154. 
2. Containing starch : as, farinaceous seeds. 
3. Pertaining to meal ; of the nature of meal ; 
mealy: as, a, farinaceous taste or quality. 4. 
Haying a mealy appearance ; covered with or 
as if with meal; characterized by something 
resembling meal: applied in pathology to cer- 
tain eruptions in which the epidermis exfoliates 
in fine scales resembling farina. . 
Some fly with two wings, as birds and many insects; 
some with four, as all farinaceous or mealy-winged ani- 
mals, as butter-flies and moths. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., 111. 15. 
farinaceously (far-i-na'shius-li), adv. With fa- 
rina : as, farinaceously tomentose. 
faring (far'ing), a. [Prop. ppr. of fare 1 , mixed 
with farand, orig. ppr. of fare 3 : see farand, 
fare 1 , fare 3 .] 1. Seeming; looking: in com- 
position, as ill-faring, well-faring. 2. Doing; 
going: in composition, as seafaring. 
farinose (far'i-nps), a. [= F. farineitx = Pg. 
farinhoso = lt,.farinoso, <.IAj.farinosus,mealy, 
< L. farina, meal: see farina.] 1. Yielding 
farina: as, farinose plants. 2. In bot., cov- 
ered with a meal-like powder, as the leaves of 
Primula farinosa and other plants. 3. In 
entom. : (a) Floury : applied to a white secre- 
tion found on various parts of the body in many 
Homoptera and a few other insects, it is often 
produced in such quantities as to hide the surface, and 
project in long masses or fllaments, which fall off at the 
least touch, (ft) Covered with the matter de- 
scribed above, as the abdomens of certain 
leaf-hoppers, (c) Covered with minute dots 
resembling white or yellow powder, or with a 
fixed whitish powder on a dark surface, as spots 
on the elytra of certain beetles. Also/ari/ra- 
lent. 
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farinosely (far'i-nos-li), noY. In a farinose 
manner, 
farinulent (fa-rin'u-lent), a. [< farina + 
-uli'iit.] Same as farinose, 3. 
farkleberry (far'kl-ber'i), n. The Vacciniinn 
arborciim. a shrub or small tree of the southern 
United States, bearing a small, black, many- 
seeded berry, witli a dry and rather astringent 
pulp. The wood is hard and very close-grained, 
and is used to some extent in turning. 
farlH (farl), v. t. [A contr. of fardle, fardel 1 , 
pack up ; corruptly/M/r/fe, contr. furl, the pres- 
ent form : see furl. ] To furl. 
Hey-day, hey-day, how she kicks and yerks ! 
Down with the main-mast ! lay her at hull ! 
Farl up all her linens, and let her ride it out ! 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, i. 1. 
farl 2 (farl), n. [Sc., a contr. of fardel?, fartheP, 
lit. a fourth part: see fardel 2 . For the con- 
traction, of. farl 1 .] A quarter or third part of 
a thin circular cake of flour or oatmeal. Also 
farrel. 
Then let his wisdom girn and snarl 
O'er a weel-tostit girdle farle. 
Feryusson, Poems, II. 78. 
farleu (fiir'lo), . In Scots law, money paid 
by tenants in lieu of a heriot : often applied to 
the best chattel, as distinguished from heriot, 
the best beast. 
farlie, farly, a., n., and adv. Seeferly. 
farm 1 (farm), n. [Early mod. E. also farme, 
ferme; < ME. ferme, rent, revenue, particular- 
ly as collected by a ' farmer,' factor, or steward, 
hence also stewardship ; also a meal, a feast ; 
< AS. feorm (fern., gen. ace. etc., feorme), pro- 
vision, food, supplies ; provisions, etc., sup- 
plied by a vassal or tenant to his lord, esp. to 
the king ; hence an estate from which such sup- 
plies are due (cyninges feorm, late AS. cynges 
feorme-hdm, 'king's farm'); hence also a meal, 
a feast, and, generally, entertainment (of a 
guest or, as a tenant's duty, of his lord), har- 
boring (of a fugitive) ; also, rarely, use, advan- 
tage (> feormian, ge-feormian, supply with food, 
sustain, entertain, receive (a guest), harbor 
(a fugitive), etc., > feormere, a purveyor (of a 
guild), feornmng, and fyrmth, a harboring (of 
fugitives), etc.) ; orig. perhaps 'a living, means 
of subsistence,' connected with feorh, life, = 
OS. ferah, ferh = OHG. ferah, ferh, MHG. 
verch = Icel. fjor, life, = Goth, fairhwus, the 
world. But as AS. feorm is always rendered 
in ML. by firma or ferma, which is formally 
identical with the fern, of L.ltrmtM, ML. often 
spelled fer in us (> OF. ferme, ME. ferme, > mod. 
E., with restored L. vowel, firm), most writers 
have assumed the actual identity of the two 
words (L. firma, fern, adj., and ML. firma or 
ferma, n.), "either because the farms were at 
first inclosed or fortified with walls, or because 
the leases were confirmed or made more certain 
by signature": see firm, a., firm, v., firm, n. 
But the AS. form appears to be the original. 
The ML. ferma, firma has the AS. senses, and, 
later, the senses of rent, revenue, particularly 
as collected by a farmer or factor, also in gen- 
eral a tax, tribute, impost. Hence OF. ferme, 
F. ferme = Pr. ferma, in same senses, the OF. 
being partly the source of the ME. form. The 
mixture of forms and senses has confused the 
history of the word. The purely agricultural 
sense is comparatively modern.] 1. In old 
English use, the revenue or rent from lands un- 
der lease ; revenue, rent, or income in general, 
but originally chiefly in the form of natural 
products. 
He ... yaf a certeyn ferine for the graunt. 
Chaiuxr, Gen. Prol. to C. T. (ed. Tyrwhitt), 1. 253. 
Fermes thyk are comyng, my purs is bot wake. 
Toumeley Mysteries, p. 84. 
The impost continued to be levied, and was included, 
with the imposts upon wines, in the farm termed "the 
petty farm." S. Dowell, Taxes In England, I. 216. 
The profits of the King's land in the shire, his various 
dues and rights in kind and in money, were commuted 
for a fixed sum, the farm of the shire. 
E. A. Freeman, Norman Conquest, V. 294. 
2. The state of land leased on rent reserved ; 
a lease ; possession under lease : as, in law, to 
farm let, or let to farm. 
He sette hys tounes and hys londes to ferme. 
Robert of Gloucester, p. 378. 
The Earl of Wiltshire hath the realm in farm. 
Shak., Rich. II., ii. 1. 
It is greate wilfulnes in ... land-lordes to refuse to 
make any longer faruuis unto theyr tenauntes. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
3. The system, method, or act of collecting 
revenue by letting out a territory in districts. 
farmage 
Under an ordinance of September 20, 1649, the commis- 
sioners had power to let out to farm the excise upon all 
or any commodities. S. Dowell, Taxes in England, II. 10. 
The first farm of postal income was made in 1672, and 
by farmers it was administered until June, 1790. 
Eneyc. llrit., XIX. 680. 
4. A country or district let out for the collec- 
tion of revenue. [Rare.] 
The province was divided into twelve farms. Burke. 
5. A tract of land devoted to general or spe- 
cial cultivation under a single control, whether 
that of its owner or of a tenant: as, a small 
farm; a wheat-, fruit-, dairy-, or market-/am. 
Cato would have this point especially to l>e considered, 
that the soil of a farme (situate as hath been said) be 
good of itselfe, and fertile. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xvii. 5. 
At my /arm, 
I have a hundred milch-kine to the pail. 
Shak., T. of theS.,ii. 1. 
Then the great Hall was wholly broken down, 
And the broad woodland parcell'd into farms. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
6f. A farm-house ; a grange ; a granary. 
As for example : farmes or granges which conteine 
chambers in them, more than flftie cubits in length. 
Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 577. 
7t. A dwelling; a habitation; a lodging. 
His sinfull sowle with desperate disdaine 
Out of her fleshly ferme fled to the place of paine. 
Sjiewer, F. Q., III. v. 23. 
Blanch farm. See blanch-farm. Home farm, (a) The 
farm on an English manor not held by tenants, but re- 
served for the immediate use of the lord. (6) A farm or 
portion of a farm nearest to or surrounding the home. 
To farm let. See def. 2. 
farm 1 (farm), v. [< ME. fermen, take on lease, 
< ferme, n. : see farm 1 , n.] I. trans. 1. To 
lease, as land, at a stated rent; give a lease 
of, as land ; let to a tenant on condition of 
paying rent : as, to farm a manor. 
We go to gain a little patch of ground 
That hath in it no profit but the name. 
To pay five ducats, five, I would not farm it. 
Shak., Hamlet, iv. 1. 
Specifically 2. To lease or let (taxes, imposts, 
or other duties) for a term at a stated rental: 
generally with out. It was formerly customary in 
some European countries, and is still in some eastern 
ones, for the ruler or government to farm the revenues 
(taxes or rents, imposts, and excise) to individuals for a 
certain percentage on the amount collected, or for the 
payment of fixed sums, the farmers of the revenue retain- 
ing the surplus of their collections. 
But I believe he (the king] must /arm out your Warwick- 
shire benevolence for the payment thereof. 
Donne, Letters, i. 
The farming out of the defence of a country, being 
wholly unprecedented and evidently abused, could have 
no real object but to enrich the contractor at the Com- 
pany's expense. Burke, Charge against Warren Hastings. 
The older sources of income were, according to the later 
use of an ancient English word, farmed by the Sheriff. 
E. A. Free-man, Norman Conquest, V. 294. 
3. To take at a certain rent or rate ; take a lease 
of ; pay a stated sum or percentage for the use, 
collection, etc., of. 
The lewes/arme the Custome of the Kings. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 161. 
4. To cultivate, as land ; till and plant. 
I am but a silly old man, 
Who/ori a piece of ground. 
Saddle to Hags (Child's Ballads, VIII. 266). 
II. intrans. To be employed in agriculture ; 
cultivate the soil. 
I grant indeed that flocks and fields have charms 
For him that grazes or for him that /<. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 4. 
farm 2 t (farm), n. [ME.ferme, later/anwe, < AS. 
feorm, a meal; ult. the same as farm 1 , n., q. v.] 
Food ; a meal. 
This hastie farme hadde bene a feast. 
Ballad of Our Lady, 1752. 
farm 3 (farm) , v. t. [E. dial. ; < ME. "fermen (not 
found), < AS. feormian, also in comp. a-feormi- 
an, ge-feormian, cleanse, polish, prob. altered 
(by confusion with the quite different word 
feormian, supply, entertain, etc.: see farm 1 ) 
from *feorbian, *furbian = O~HG.furbjan, MHG. 
viirben, cleanse, polish, rub bright, > OF.furbir, 
fourbir (fotirbiss-), whence ME. fourbishen, E. 
furbish: see furbish.] To cleanse or empty. 
Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
farmable (far'ma-bl), a. [< farm! + -able.] 
Capable of being farmed, in any sense. Cot- 
grave. 
farmaget (far'maj), w. [</rml + -age.] The 
management of farms. Davies. 
They do by fannafie 
Brynge the londe into a rearage, 
Contempnynge the state temporal!. 
Hoy and Barlow, Rede me and Be uott Wroth, p. 102. 
