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FAR 
FAR 
cant word in the time of Shakefpeare.— The gentleman 
had drunk himfelf out of his five fentences; and being 
faf); fir, was, as they fay, cafhiered. Shakefpeare. 
FAPES'MChy. in logic, one of the modes of imper¬ 
fect fyllogifms. 
FAQUI'ER, a county of the American States in Vir¬ 
ginia, bounded north by Loudon and eaft by Prince Wil¬ 
liam. It is about fifty-five miles long and twenty broad, 
and, by the cenfus of 1796, contains 17,892 inhabitants. 
FAQUI'R. See Fakeer. 
FAR, adv. [peojr, Sa x.fatt, Erfe.] To great extent 
in length : 
Pay facred rev’rence to Apollo’s fong. 
Left wrathful the/«r-ihooting god emit 
His fatal arrows. Prior. 
To a great extent every way. This is lefs proper : 
From the fame lineage fiern /Eaetes came, 
The far- fam’d brother of th’ enchantrefs dame. Pope. 
To a great diftance progreflively : 
Is it far you ride ? 
—As far, my lord, as will fill up the time 
’"Twix t this and fupper. Shakefpeare. 
Remotely; at a great diftance.—In a kingdom rightly or¬ 
dered, after a law is once publiftied, it prefently takes 
effeCt fur and wide ; all ftates'framing themfelves there¬ 
unto. Hooker. 
But from the reading of my book and me, 
Be far, ye foes of virtuous poverty ! 
Who fortune’s fault upon the poor can throw, 
Point at the tatter'd coat and ragged fhoe. Dryden. 
To a diftance.—As far as the Eaft is from the Weft, 
fo far hath lie removed our tranfgrefiions from us. 
Pfal. ciii. 12. 
A lion’s hide around his loins he wore : 
The well poiz’d javelin to the field he bore, 
Inur’d to blood ; theyizr-deltroying dart, 
And the beft weapon, an undaunted heart. Addifon. 
In a great part.—When they were by Jebus the day was 
far (pent. Judges. —In a great proportion ; by many de¬ 
grees. It is commonly ufed with fome word noting the 
comparative, but Dryden has ufed it abfolutely.—Who 
can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above ru¬ 
bies. Prov. xxxi. 10.—Latin is a mote fuccinft language 
than the Italian, Spanifh, French, or even than the Eng- 
lifh, which, by reafonof its monofyllables, is far the mod 
compendious of them. Dryden. 
The field is fpacious I defign to fow, 
With oxen far unfit to draw the plough. Dryden. 
Befides, he’s lovely far above the reft, 
With youth immortal, and with beauty bleft. Pope. 
Ah ! hope not yet to breathe thy native air ; 
Far other journey fir It demands thy care. Pope. 
To a great height ; magnificently. This is perhaps only 
■in Shakefpeare ; 
I do not think 
So fair an outward, and luch fluff within, 
Endows a man but him. 
•-You fpeak him far. 
- -ft don’t extend him, fir. Cymbeline. 
To a certain point; to a certain degree.—Not to refolve, 
is to refolve ; and many times it breeds as many neceffi- 
ties, and engageth as far in fome other fort, as to refolve. 
Bacon. 
Far off. At a great diftance : 
For though T flee him angry, yet recall’d 
To life prolong’d, and promis’d race, I now 
Giadly behold, though but his utmoft fkirts 
Of. glory, and far off his fteps adore. Milton. 
To a great diftance ; 
Cherubic watch, and of a fword the flame 
Wide-waving, all approach far off to fright, 
And guard all paffage to the tree of life. Milton , 
Off is joined with far, when far, noting diftance, is not 
followed by a prepofition : as, / Jet the beat far off, / fet the 
boat far from vie .—Far. is often ufed in compofition ; as, 
far-fiooting, far-feeing, &c. 
FAR-FE'TCH, f. A deep ftratagem. Aludicrous word: 
But Jefuits have deeper reaches. 
In all their politic far-J'etchcs ; 
And from their Coptic prieft, Kircherus, 
Found out this myllic way to jeer us. Hudibras, 
FAR-FETCHED, adj. Brought from places remote . 
Of thefe things others quickly will difpofe, 
Whole pains have earn’d the far-fetch'd fpoil. Milton. 
Studioufly fought; elaborately drained ; not eafily or na¬ 
turally introduced.—York, with all his far-fetch'd policy 
Shakefpeare. 
For far-j'etch’’d rhymes make puzzled angels drain, 
And in low profe dull Lucifer complain. Smith. 
FAR-PIERCING, adj. Striking, or penetrating a 
great way : 
Atlas, her fire, to whofe far-piercing eye, 
The wonders of the deep expanded lie ; 
Th’ eternal columns which on earth lie rears, 
End in the ftarry vault and prop the fpheres. Pope. 
FAR-SHOOTING, adj. Shooting to a great diftance ; 
Then loud he call’d /Eneas thrice by name ; 
Tiie loud repeated voice to glad /Eneas came ; 
Great Jove he faid, and the farf looting god, 
lufpire thy mind to make thy challenge good. Dryden. 
FAR, adj. Diftant ; remote.-—A man taking a far 
journey. Mark. 
But we mud beg our bread in climes unknown, 
Beneath the fcorching or the freezing zone ; 
And fome to far Oaxis {hall be fold, 
To try the Lybian heat, or Scythian cold. Dryden. 
It was formerly ufed not o.nly as an adverb but an adjec¬ 
tive, with off. —If we may behold in any creature any one 
fparkof that eternal fire, or any far-ff dawning of God’s 
glorious brightnefs, the fame in the beauty, motion, and 
virtue, of this light may be perceived. Raleigh. — From 
Far. In this fenfe it is ufed eliiptically for njar, or ie- 
niote, place.—The Lord fhall bring a nation againft thee 
fromj'ar, from the end of the earth. Deut. xxviii. 49.— 
Remoter of the two ; in horfemanfbip, the right fide of 
the horfe, which the rider turns from him when he mounts; 
No true Egyptian ever knew in horfes 
The far fide from the near. Dryden. 
It is often not eafy to difiinguilh whether it be adiedlive 
or adverb ; as, The nations far and near center’d in choice. 
Dryden. 
FAR,_/i [contracted Dorn farrow. ] The offspring of a 
fow ; young pigs ; 
Sows, ready to farrow at this time of the year, 
Are for to be made of and counted full dear ; 
For now is the lofs of the far of the fow 
More great than the lofs of two calves of the cow. Puffer. 
FA'RA, one of the fmaller Orkney iflands, between 
Eaa and Weftra. 
FA'RA, or Farra, one of the fmaller Orkney ifiands, 
one mile eaft from the ifland of Hoy. 
FA'RA, a town of Arabia Felix: 230 miles weft of 
Cathem. 
FARADEE'SE, a town of Africa, in the country of 
Tunis, thirty-two miles ioutn ot t unis. 
FARAN', a country of Africa, in the interior parts o 
Negroland. _ 
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