farmaryt, . 
farmary 
Same as infirmary. 
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The iiiuonke auon after went to the farmaric, & there 
died. Foxe, Martyrs, p. 238. 
or employing it for the purposes of husbandry ; 
agriculture; husbandry. 
II. a. Pertaining to farms or agriculture : as, 
farm-bailiff (farm'ba"lif), n. An overseer ap- farming tools. 
pointed by the possessor or proprietor of a farm farm-meal (farm'mel), n. Meal paid as part 
to direct and superintend the farming opera- of the rent of a farm: a part of the obsolescent 
tions. system of paying rent in kind. [Scotch.] 
farm-building (farm'bil*diug), n. One of the farm-office (farm'ofis), n. One of the out- 
buildings belonging to and used for the business buildings pertaining to a farm : generally used 
of a farm. in the plural as a collective name for all the 
farmer (far'mer), n. [<ME. *fermer,fermour, a buildings on a farm exclusive of the dwelling- 
steward, bailiff, collector of taxes, partly < OF. house. [Eng.] 
fermier, F. fermier, a farmer, a lessee, also a farmost (far' most), a. sitperl. [< far + -most.] 
chief husbandman, a bailiff or overseer of a farm Most distant or remote. [Rare.] 
(< ML. firmarius, one to whom land is rented for A spacious cave within its farmost part, 
a term of years, a collector of taxes, a deputy, Dryden, vEneid. 
< firma, farm, in its various senses : see/arm 1 ), farm-place (farm'plas), n. A farm; a farm- 
partly < AS. feormere, a purveyor (of a guild), stead. 
< feormian, purvey, Supply, etc. : see farml, n. And whan the niessagiers called vpon them, euery man 
and V.] 1. One who undertakes the collection made his excuse : one sayed, he must go se his mainour or 
of taxes, customs, excise, or other duties for a f"' M ~v^^ j* he lately bought. J. ifdall, On Mat. xxii. 
certain rate per cent., or pays a fixed sum for farmstead (farm'sted), . The collection of 
the privilege of collecting and retaining them : buildings belonging to a farm ; the homestead 
on a farm. 
I ... then went wandering away far along chausse'es, 
through fields, beyond cemeteries, Catholic and Protestant, 
beyond farmsteads, to laues and little woods. 
Charlotte Bronte, Villette, xv. 
But he, by farmstead, thorpe and spire, . . . 
Came crowing over Thames. 
Tennyson, Will Waterproof. 
When a territory was first occupied, the people did not 
settle in towns, nor even in villages, but in isolated farm- 
steads. D. W. Ross, German Landholding, p. 52. 
The village street is closed at the end by a wooden gate, 
. . . giving it something the look of a large farmstead, iu 
which a right of way lies through the yard. 
JKuskin, Elements of Drawing. 
farm- village (f&rm'vil'aj), n. A village of 
which the chief industry is farming. 
as, & farmer of the revenues. 
The farmers of the tax [hearth-money] were rigorous 
and unrelenting in their proceedings. 
S. Dowell, Taxes in England, II. 43. 
The equites also farmed the public revenues. Those 
who were engaged in this business were called publican! ; 
and, though Cicero, who was himself of the equestrian 
order, speaks of these farmers as "the flower of the Ro- 
man equites, the ornament of the state, the safeguard of 
the republic," it appears that they were a set of detesta- 
ble oppressors. Anthon's Classical Diet. 
A New England farm-village, where there is no distinct 
mass" to elevate. G. W. Cable, Home Culture Clubs, iv. 
A woman who farms ; a farmer's wife. [Rare.] 
Went to Margate ; and the following day was carried to 
see a gallant widow, brought up ufarmoresse, and I think 
2. In mining, the lord of the field, or one who 
farms the lot and cope of the crown. [Eng.] 
3. One who cultivates a farm, either as owner 
or lessee ; in general, one who tills the soil. 
Here's & farmer, that hanged himself on the expecta- 
tion of plenty. Shak., Macbeth, ii. 3. 
why are farmers made so coarse, 
Or clergy made so fine ? 
Cowper, The Yearly Distress, farm-yard (farm'yard), n. The yard or inclo- 
You did but come as goblins in the night, . . . sure surrounded by or connected with the farm- 
Nor robb'd the fanner of his bowl of cream. buildings 
Tennyson, Princess, v. farn jggjv . A dialectal variant of fernl. 
We are thus led to believe that the Engllsh/ttnnen were f arT1 pqo rfftr'npsl n Thn sratn nf hAin<y far 
at flrst joint-owners of all the arable land as well as of the Iar , ne ? jS >< " state OI Dem g lar 
pastures and waste-grounds in the township. " > distance ; remoteness. 
C. Elton, Origins of Eng. Hist., p. 400. So the matter was brought to thys passe, that Cesar 
4. The eldest son of the holder or occupier of a ^m^^^^tSSSS^ * "^ ally/a "" ! from 
farm ; anciently, a yeoman or country gentle- A _ dolding, tr. of Casar, fol. 119. 
man. [Prov. Eng.] -Farmer's satin. See satin. Tne equalitie or inequalitie of dayes, according to the 
farmeress (far mer-es), . [< farmer +_-CSS.] neernesse orfaniesse from the Equinoctial!. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 10. 
The measure of tne far-ness is therefore the measure of 
the force. S. Lamer, Sci. of Eng. Verse, p. 26. 
of gigantic race, rich, comely, and exceedingly'industrious. Farnovian (far-no'vi-an), a. and n I a Re- 
Evelyn, Memoirs, May 19, 1672. lating to Farnoviugj a "p o Hsh Unitarian o'f the 
farmer-general (far ' mer-jen 'e-ral), n. In sixteenth century, or to his doctrines. 
France, under the old monarchy, a member of a H. . A follower of Farnovius. 
privileged class which farmed certain branches farntickle, n. Seefernticle. 
of the revenue that is, contracted with the faro (fa'ro), n. [Also writtenpharao, pharaon, 
government to pay into the treasury a fixed after F. pliaraon ; said to be named from a fig- 
yearly sum, taking upon itself the collection ure formerly on one of the cards, representing 
and use of certain taxes as an equivalent. This 
system was intolerably oppressive, especially in the eigh- 
teenth century, when its members were united in an asso- 
ciation. It was swept away at the revolution, and about 
thirty farmers-general were executed in 1794. 
farmership (far'mer-ship), . [< farmer + 
-ship.'] The state or occupation of a farmer; 
management of a farm. 
These were the lucky flrst fruites that the Gospel 
brought forth for his rent and fermerhip. 
J. Udall, On Acts ii. 
farmery (fiir'mer-i), . ; pi. farmeries (-iz). [< 
fcarmfl- + -en/.] The assemblage of buildings 
andappurtenancesbelongingtoafarm. [Rare.] 
A. farmery, famous for its cider mill and the good cider 
made there. D. G. Mitchell, Bound Together, i. 
farm-hand (farm'hand), n. A hired laborer on 
a farm. 
farmhold (farm'hold), n. [Early mod. 'E.ferme- 
holde; </nl + holtfl-, n.] A farm-house with 
its out-buildings. [Obsolete or archaic.] 
Geue eare thou proud rich man what euer thou bee, that 
heapest together possessions and landes vpon landes : that 
art in euery corner a builder of houses, of fermeholdes, of 
mainours & of palacies. J. Udall, On Luke ii. 
Pharaoh, King of Egypt.] A game played by 
betting on the order in which certain playing- 
cards (with reference simply to face-value) will 
appear when taken singly from the top of the 
Sack. The players sit at one side of a table, and the 
ealer at the other. The dealer always represents the 
bank, having in charge the paying and claiming of bets. 
In the United States the table has on its center the "lay- 
out," or representation of thirteen cards, from the ace up 
to the king, in regular order. After bets have been placed 
on single cards or combinations, the dealer removes the 
top card from a complete pack placed face up in a box, 
which card does not count; he then withdraws the next 
one, leaving the third exposed, and claims all bets made 
on the card equal in value to the one withdrawn and pays 
those made on the other ; the appearance together of two 
cards of the same value is called a "split," and the better 
loses half of his stake. Any bet may be " coppered " by 
placing a button on top of the money or checks, and this 
changes the bet to one that the card will show for the 
dealer. The showing of two cards constitutes a "turn," 
and after each turn new bets are made for another, down 
to the last three cards of the pack ; the only betting al- 
lowed after this is on " calling the turn," or guessing which 
farm-house (farm ' hous), n. The principal 
will show flrst. The European game is essentially the 
same, except that the layout is arranged in a small book. 
Then he dashes into the vortex of Paris, where it is said 
that he introduced the game called Faro, and became still 
more conspicuous than at Brussels by his enormous gains 
at the gaming-table. Gayarre, Hist. Louisiana, I. 198. 
. An establishment 
farming (far'ming), n. and a. [Verbal n. of through which to slide the cards, and a spring 
./ari, .] I. n. 1. The practice of letting or which keeps the top card level with the slit and 
leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection. allows the removal of but one at a time. [U.S.] 
3. The business of collecting taxes. See/l, Faroese (far-o-es' or -ez,'), a. and n. [< Faroe 
v. t., 2. 3. The business of cultivating land, + -ese; less commonly Faroish, after Icel. .Re- 
farrier 
rcyxkr, adj. (cf. Feercyingar, pi., Dan. Faring, 
n.), < Fcereyjar = Dan. Fariier, the Faroe is- 
lands, lit. the sheep-islands, < Icel. fcer = Sw. 
far = Dan. faar, sheep, + Icel. ey = Sw. 6 = 
Dan. 6 = AS. eg, if/, island : see ait, inland."] I. 
o. Pertaining to the Faroe islands, or to their 
language or inhabitants. 
II. >i. 1. A native or an inhabitant of the Fa- 
roe islands, a group of islands belonging to Den- 
mark, lying midway between the Shetland is- 
lands and Iceland. 2. A Scandinavian dialect 
spoken in the Faroe islands, 
far-off (lar'of), a. [< far off, adv. phrase.] Far- 
away; distant; remote. 
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, 
I hear the/ar-o^'curfeu sound, 
Over some wide-water'd shore. 
ililtou, 11 Penseroso, 1. 74. 
One/ar-q/Tdivinc event, 
To which the whole creation moves. 
Tennyson, In Memoriam, Conclusion. 
Far-oftilnti and adumbrations. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 2d ser., p. 43. 
Faroish (far'o-ish), a. [< Faroe + -ishi. Cf. 
Faroese."} Same as Faroese. 
The Swedish, . . . Danish, and Faroish ballads. 
Child's Ballads, I. 315. 
farraget, [< OF. farrage, a mixture of grain, 
(.far, < L./ar, spelt: see farina.] A mixture of 
grain. 
As for that kind of dredge or fairage which commeth 
of the refuse and light corue purged from the red wheat 
far, it ought to be sowne very thicke with vetches, other- 
whiles mingled among. Uvllaiid, tr. of Pliny, xvlii. 16. 
farraginous (fa-raj'i-nus), a. [< L. farrago 
(farragin-) (see farrago) + -ovs.] Formed of 
various materials ; mixed; jumbled: as, & far- 
raginous discourse. [Rare.] 
A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, 
sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., i. 3. 
But the great farraginous body of Popish rites and cere- 
monies, the subject of my learned friend's letter from 
Rome, had surely a different original. 
Warburton, Divine Legation, notes. 
farrago (fa-ra'go), . [< L. farrago, mixed 
fodder for cattle, mash, hence also a medley, 
hodgepodge, < far (farr-), spelt : see farina.'] 
A mass composed of various materials con- 
fusedly mixed; a medley; a hodgepodge. 
A fai-rago, 
Or a made dish in Court ; a thing of nothing. 
/'. Jonson, Magnetick Lady, i. 1. 
Yet do I carry everywhere with me such a confounded 
farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy 
furniture of a country miss's brain ! 
Sheridan, Tile Rivals, ii. 1. 
How much superior Is one touch of nature ... to all 
this farrago of metaphor and mythology. 
Prescott, Ferd. and Isa., i. 1. 
= Syn. See mixture. 
farrand,o. Seefarand. 
farrandinet, " See ferrandine. 
farrantlyt, adv. Same asfarandly. 
Farrea (far'e-a), n. [NL.J The typical genus 
of Farreidai. "JiowerJtank, 1862. 
far-reaching (far're''ching), a. Tending to ex- 
ert an influence and produce an effect in remote 
quarters or for a long time. 
The ambiguity of the term [natural expectations] con- 
ceals a fundamental conflict of ideas, which appears more 
profound and farreaching in its consequences the more 
we examine it. //. Sidgieiclr, Methods of Ethics, p. 245. 
farreation (far-e-a'shon), w. [< LL. farrea- 
tto(n-), equiv. to L. cotifarreatie(n-) : see con- 
farreation.'] Same as conformation. 
Farreidae (fa-re'i-de), n.pl. [ML., < Farrea + 
-ida;.] A family of dictyonine hexactinellid 
silicious sponges in which the skeleton forms a 
single layer with uncinate and radially situated 
clavulte, typified by the genus Farrea. 
farrel (far'el), w. [A dial. var. of fardefi, far- 
thetf.] Same asfarP. 
farrier (far'i-er), n. [Formerly/erner, also (and 
still AM.) ferrer; < ME. "ferrer, < OF.ferrier, a 
farrier (Godefroy), also ferrier, a farriers' ham- 
mer (Roquefort), = Pr. ferrer, ironmonger, = 
OSp. ferrer, ferrere, Sp. Iterrero = Pg. ferreiro 
= It. ferraro, ferrajo, a smith, ironmonger, < L. 
ferrarius, a smith, blacksmith (ML. ferrarius 
equorum, a horseshoer) ; prop, adj., pertaining 
to iron, < L. ferrum, iron : see ferrary, ferreous, 
ferrum. The earlier E. form appears in ME. 
ferrour, < OF. ferreor, ferrour, ferreur, ferour, < 
ML/, ferrator, a blacksmith, farrier, < ferrare, 
bind or shoe with iron, shoe (a horse), < L. fer- 
rum, iron. Cf. OF. ferron, ferronier, a black- 
smith, farrier, ironmonger. The mod. F. term 
for 'farrier' is mareclial ferrant : see marshal.] 
1. A worker in iron ; a blacksmith. 
