FAR 
FA RAN', a valley of Arabia, which extends from the 
Red Sea to Mount Sinai. 
FA'RANDMAN, f. [Saxon.] A traveller or merchant 
ft ranger, to whom by the laws of Scotland juftice is to be 
done with all expedition, that his bufinefs or journey be 
not hindered. Skene, c. 104. 
FAR'BE, a town of Germany, itv the duchy of Hol- 
ftein : four miles weft-fouth-weil of Oldebnrg. 
To FARCE, v. a. \_farcio, Lat. farcin, Fr.] To fluff; 
to fill with mingled ingredients.—Wreftling is a paftime 
which either the Cornifh-men derived from Corineus, 
their firft pretended founder, or at lead it minifired Come 
fluff to the farcing of that fable. Carew. — To extend ; to 
fwell out : 
’Tis not the balm, the feeptre, and the ball, 
The fword, the mace, the crown imperial, 
The entertiffu’d robe of gold and pearl, 
The farced title running ’fore the king. Shakefpeare. 
FARCE, f [from the verb; or from farcer, Fr. to 
mock.] A dramatic reprefentation written without regu¬ 
larity, and fluffed with wild and ludicrous conceits.— 
There is yet a lower fort of poetry and painting, which is 
out of nature; fora farce is that in poetry which grotefque 
is in a picture : the perfons and actions of a jarce are all 
unnatural, and the manners falfe ; that is, inconfiftent 
with the characters of mankind : grotefque painting is 
the juft refemblance of this. Dryden. 
FAR'CICAL, adj. Belonging to a farce; appropri¬ 
ated to a farce.—They deny the characters to be farcical, 
becaufe they are actually in nature. Gay. 
FAR'CY , f. [farcina, Ital. farcin, Fr.] The leprofy 
of horfes. See the article Farriery. 
FARD, f. [French.] A kind of paint ; paint for the 
face. 
FAR'DAN, a town of Perfia, in the province of Se- 
geftan : 1 55 miles fouth-fouth-weft.of Zareng." 
FARD'ED, part. adj. [ farder, Fr.] Painted : 
There of the farded fop and elfenc’d beau, 
Ferocious with a floic’s frown difclole 
Thy manly (corn. Shenjlone. 
FAR'DEL, f \_fardello, Ital. fardeau, Fr.] A bun¬ 
dle ; a little pack.—Let us to the king : there is that in 
this fardel will make him fcratch his beard. Shakefpeare. 
FAR'DEL OF LAND, \_fardflla terra, Lat.] This 
is generally accounted the fourth part of a yard-land : 
but according to Noy, (in his Compl. Law. 57) it is an 
eighth part only ; for there he fays that two fardels of 
land make a nook, and four nooks a yard land. 
FAR'DING-DEAL, [ quadrantata terra, Lat.] The 
fourth part of an acre and befides quadrantata terra, we 
read of obolata, denariata, folidata, and librata terra, which 
probably arife in proportion of quantity from the farding- 
deal, as an half-penny, penny, (hilling, or pound, in mo¬ 
ney, rife in value ; and then mull obolata be half an acre, 
denariata an acre, folidata twelve acres, and librata terra 
twelve fcore acres of land : but forne bold obolata to be 
but half a perch, and dena'iata a perch ; and there is 
mentioned viginti libratas terra vel redditus, in Teg. Orig. 
94i2.iS, whereby it feems that librata terra is fo much as 
yields twenty drillings per annum. Spelm. Gloff. 
FAR'DJNGALE, f. See Farthingale. 
7 b FARE, v. n. [pajran, Sax. varen , Dut.] To go; 
to pafs ; to travel : 
Sa on he fares, and to the border comes 
Ot Eden. Milton. 
To be in any ftate good or bad.—A ftubborn heart (hail fare 
evil at the laft. Ecclef. —If you do as I do, you may fare 
a s I fare. Li FJlrange. 
So in this throng bright Sacharifta far'd, 
Opprefs’d by thofe who ftrove to be her guard : 
As (hips, though never fo obfequious, fall 
Foul in a temped on their admiral. Waller. 
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So fares the dag among th* enraged hounds; 
Repels their force,and wounds returns for wounds. Denham. 
To proceed in any train of confequence good or bad.— 
Thus it Jaretk when too much de/ire of contradiction 
caufeth our fpeeches rather to pafs-by number than to ftuy 
for weight. Hooker. —To happen to any one well or ill 5 
with ft preceding in an imperfonai form.—When the hand 
finds irlelf well warmed and covered, let it refufe the 
trouble of feeding the mouth, or guarding the head, ’till 
the body be ftarved or killed, and then we (hall fee how 
it will fare with the hand. South. —To feed ; to eat ; to 
be entertained with food.—The rich man fared fumptu- 
oitfiyevery day. Luke. —Men think they have fared hardly, 
if, in times of extremity, they have defeended fo low as to 
eat dogs; but Galen delivereth, that, young, fat, and 
gelded, they were the food of many nations. Brown. 
FARE, f. Price of pafiage in a vehicle by land or by 
water. Ufed only of that which is paid for the perfon, 
not the goods.—He found a (hip going to Tarfhiih ; fo he 
paid the fare thereof, and went down into it to go with 
them unto Tar(lii(h. Jonah. —Food prepared lor the ta¬ 
ble ; provifions : 
But fince among mankind fo few there are. 
Who will conform to philofophic fare, 
This much I will indulge thee for thy eafe, 
And mingle fomething of our times to pleafe. Dryden. 
Expedition.—That nought the morrow next mote flay 
llis fare. Spcnfer. 
FARE (Charles-Auguftus), marquis de la, a French 
poet, born at Val-gorge in the Vivarais, in 1644. He was 
captain of the guards to monfieur brother to Louis XIV. 
and to the duke of Orleans his fon, afterwards regent. 
Voltaire (in his Siecle de Louis XIV.) a (Tens, that his 
talent for poetry did not (hew itfelf till he was near 
(ixty, and that his firft verfes were an elegant compliment 
to mad. de Caylus. His poemsare printed after thofe of 
Chaulieu in St. Marc’s edition. La Farealfo wrote Me¬ 
moirs and Reflections on the principal Events of the Reign 
of Louis XIV. 12010. He died in 1712. 
FA'REHAM, a lively handfome town in the county 
of Hants, diftant twelve miles froth Southampton, five 
from Gofport, nine from Portfmouth by land, and feventy- 
fonr from London. It has a market on Tuefday,. and a 
fair on June 29, for cheefe, corn, &c. It has a well-en¬ 
dowed charity-fchool, and a very handfome church. Upon 
the eminence at the "entrance of this town on the London 
road, there is a fine profpeft of Portfmouth, Gofport, St. 
Helen’s, the Needles, Cowes Harbour, Iile of Wight, 
Spithead, Southampton Water, and of the country in a 
panorama every way. Here is alfo a lack manufactory, 
and another of ropes for (hipping. A great coal-trade is 
alfo carried on here ; vetfels of two hundred tons unload 
at the quay. 
FAR'EL (William), one of the firft minifters of the 
reformed church, fon of a gentleman of Dauphine in 
France, born at Gap in 14S9. He purfued liis academic 
(Indies at the univerlity of Paris, where he diftinguifhed 
himfelf by his proficiency in philofophy, and the Greek 
and Latin languages, until he obtained the appointment 
of tutor in the college of cardinal le Moine. In 1523* 
however; a perfecution was commenced at Meaux, by 
the Francifcans, againft all thofe of the reformed religion, 
which obliged Farel to provide for his fafety by quitting 
France. On this occafion he retired to Straftuirg, where 
lie was received by Bucer and Capito, and afterwards by 
Haller at Bern, and by CEcolampndius at Bafil, who ad- 
vifed him to undertake the reformation of Montbeliard. 
As he enjoyed the protection of the duke of Wirtemberg, 
he purfued the defign with fuccefs. In 1329 lie went to 
Neufchatel, where he combated the catholic party with 
fuch aCliviry and efficacy, that in the following year the 
refi rmed religion was eftabliffied in that city. He was 
then lent deputy to the fynod of the Vaudois, in the Val¬ 
ley of Angrogne ; and when that million was terminated 
