Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FARCE, v.t. [fàrs; L. farcio, Fr. farcir, to stuff, Arm. farsa.]

1. To stuff; to fill with mingled ingredients. [Little used.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Sanderson.
2. To extend; to swell out; as, the farced title. [Little used.] Shak.

FAR-CIC-AL, a.

1. Belonging to a farce; appropriated to farce. They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are actually in nature. Gay.
2. Droll; ludicrous; ridiculous.
3. Illusory; deceptive.

FAR'CIC-AL-LY, adv.

In a manner suited to farce; hence, ludicrously.

FAR'CI-CAL-NESS, n.

Quality of being ludicrous.

FAR'CI-LITE, n. [from farce.]

Pudding-stone. The calcarious farcilite, called amenla, is formed of rounded calcarious pebbles, agglutinated by a calcarious cement. [Obs.] Kirwan, Geol.

FAR'CIN, or FAR'CY, n.

A disease of horses, sometimes of oxen, of the nature of a scabies or mange. Encyc.

FAR'CING, n.

Stuffing composed of mixed ingredients. Carew.

FARC'TATE, a. [L. farctus, stuffed, from farcio.]

In botany, stuffed; crammed, or full; without vacuities; in opposition to tubular or hollow; as, a farctate leaf, stem or pericarp. Martyn.

FARD, v.t. [Fr.]

To paint. [Not used.] Shenstone.

FAR-DEL, n. [It. fardello; Fr. fardeau; Sp. fardel, fardo; Arm. fardell; probably from the root of L. fero, to bear, or of farcio, to stuff.]

A bundle or little pack. Shak.

FAR'DEL, v.t.

To make up in bundles. Fuller.

FARE, n.

1. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due, for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river, called also ferriage; the fare for conveyance in a coach; stage-fare. The price of conveyance over the ocean is now usually called the passage, or passage money. Fare is never used for the price of conveying goods; this is called freight or transportation.
2. Food; provisions of the table. We lived on coarse fare; or, we had delicious fare.
3. The person conveyed in a vehicle. [Not in use in the United States.] Drummond.

FARE, v.i. [Sax. faran, Goth. faran, to go; D. vaaren; G. fahren; Sw. fara; Dan. farer. This word may be connected in origin with the Heb. Ch. Syr. Sam. עבר, Ar. عَبَرَ abara, to go, to pass; or with اَفَرَ afara, to pass, or pass over, which seems to be radically the same word as نَفَرَ nafara, to flee. This coincides with the Eth. ወፈረ wafar, to go, to pass, Gr. πορευω, Ir. bara. Class Br, No, 23, 37, 41.]

1. To go; to pass; to move forward; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes / Of Eden. Milton. [In this literal sense the word is not in common use.]
2. To be in any state, good or bad; to be attended with any circumstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate. So fares the stag among th' enraged hounds. Denham. So fared the knight between two foes. Hudibras. He fared very well; he fared very ill. Go further and fare worse. The sense is taken from going, having a certain course; hence, being subjected to a certain train of incidents. The rich man fared sumptuously every day. He enjoyed all the pleasure which wealth and luxury could afford. Luke xvi.
3. To feed; to be entertained. We fared well; we had a good table, and courteous treatment.
4. To proceed in a train of consequences, good or bad. So fares it when with truth falsehood contends. Milton.
5. To happen well or ill; with it impersonally. We shall see how it will fare with him.

FARE-WELL, n.

1. A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; adieu.
2. Leave; act of departure. And takes her farewell of the glorious sun. Shak. Before I take my farewell of the subject. Addison.

FARE-WELL, v.

A compound of fare, in the imperative, and well. Go well; originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It expresses a kind wish, a wish of happiness to those who leave or those who are left. The verb and adverb are often separated by the pronoun; fare you well; I wish you a happy departure; may you be well in your absence. It is sometimes an expression of separation only. Farewell the year; farewell ye sweet groves; that is, I take my leave of you.

FAR-EX-TEND'ED, a.

Extended to a great distance.

FAR-FAM-ED, a.

Widely celebrated. Pope.

FAR-FETCH, n.

A deep laid stratagem. [Little used.] Hudibras.

FAR-FETCH-ED, a.

1. Brought from a remote place. Whose pains have earned the far-fetched spoil. Milton.
2. Studiously sought; not easily or naturally deduced or introduced; forced; strained. York with all his far-fetched policy. Shak. So we say, far-fetched arguments; far-fetched rhymes; far-fetched analogy. [Far-fet, the same, is not used.]

FAR-GLANC'ING, a.

Glancing to a great distance.

FAR'IN, or FA-RI'NA, n. [L. farina, meal.]

1. In botany, the pollen, fine dust or powder, contained in the anthers of plants, and which is supposed to fall on the stigma, and fructify the plant.
2. In chemistry, starch or fecula, one of the proximate principles of vegetables. Fossil farina, a variety of carbonate of lime, in thin white crusts, light as cotton, and easily reducible to powder. Cleaveland.

FAR-I-NA'CEOUS, a. [from L. farina, meal.]

1. Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet, which consists of the meal or flour of the various species of corn or grain.
2. Containing meal; as, farinaceous seeds.
3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous taste or smell.

FAR-LIES, n.

Unusual, unexpected things. [Not in use.] Cumberland.

FAR-LOOK-ING, a.

Looking to a great distance. Allen.

FARM, n. [Sax. farma, fearm, or feorm, food, provisions, board, a meal, a diner or supper, hospitality, substance, goods, use, fruit. Hence, feormian, to supply provisions, to entertain; also, to purge or purify, to expiate, to avail, to profit. Arm. ferm, or feurm; in ancient laws, firma; Fr. ferme, a farm, or letting to farm, whence affermer, to hire or lease. The sense of feorm seems to be corn or provisions, in which formerly rents were paid. The radical sense of feorm, provisions, is probably produce, issues, from one of the verbs in Br; produce and purification both implying separation, a throwing off or out.]

1. A tract of land leased on rent reserved; ground let to a tenant on condition of his paying a certain sum annually or otherwise for the use of it. A farm is usually such a portion of land as is cultivated by one man, and includes the buildings and fences. Rents were formerly paid in provisions, or the produce of land; but now they are generally paid in money. This is the signification of farm in Great Britain, where most of the land is leased to cultivators.
2. In the United State, a portion or tract of land, consisting usually of grass land, meadow, pasture, tillage and woodland, cultivated by one man and usually owned by him in fee. A like tract of land under lease is called a farm; but most cultivators are proprietors of the land, and called farmers. A tract of new land, covered with forest, if intended to be cultivated by one man as owner, is also called a farm. A man goes into the new states, or into the unsettled country, to buy a farm, that is, land for a farm.
3. The state of land leased on rent reserved; a lease. It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser.