Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FARM, v.t.

1. To lease, as land, on rent reserved; to let to a tenant on condition of paying rent. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. Shak. [In this sense, I believe, the word is not used in America.]
2. To take at a certain rent or rate. [Not used in America.]
3. To lease or let, as taxes, impost or other duties, at a certain sum or rate per cent. It is customary in many countries for the prince or government to farm the revenues, the taxes or rents, the imposts and excise, to individuals, who are to collect and pay them to the government at a certain per centage or rate per cent.
4. To take or hire for a certain rate per cent.
5. To cultivate land. To farm let, or let to farm, is to lease on rent.

FARM-A-BLE, a.

That may be farmed. Sherwood.

FARM-ED, pp.

Leased on rent; let out at a certain rate or price.

FARM-ER, n.

1. In Great Britain, a tenant; a lessee; one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground. Shak.
2. One who takes taxes, customs, excise or other duties, to collect for a certain rate per cent.; as, a farmer of the revenues.
3. One who cultivates a farm; a husbandman; whether a tenant or the proprietor. United States.
4. In mining, the lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the king. Encyc.

FARM'ER-Y, n.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm. [Eng.]

FARM-HOUSE, n.

A house attached to a farm, and for the residence of a farmer.

FARM-ING, n.

The business of cultivating land.

FARM-ING, ppr.

1. Letting or leasing land on rent reserved, or duties and imposts at a certain rate per cent.
2. Taking on lease.
3. Cultivating land; carrying on the business of agriculture.

FARM-OF-FICE, n.

Farm-offices, are the out buildings pertaining to a farm.

FAR-MOST, a. [far and most.]

Most distant or remote. Dryden.

FARM-YARD, n.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn; or the inclosure surrounded by the farm buildings.

FAR-NESS, n. [from far.]

Distance; remoteness. Carew.

FA'RO, n.

A species of game.

FAR-PIER-CING, a.

Striking or penetrating a great way; as, a far-piercing eye. Pope.

FAR-RAG'I-NOUS, a. [L. farrago, a mixture, from far, meal.]

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. Kirwan.

FAR-RA'GO, n. [L. from far, meal.]

A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley.

FAR'RAND, or FA'RAND, n.

Manner; custom; humor. [Local.] Grose.

FAR-RE-A'TION, n. [See CONFARREATION.]

FAR-RE-SOUND'ING, a.

Resounding to a great distance.

FAR'RIER, n. [Fr. ferrant; It. ferraio; Sp. herrador; L. ferrarius, from ferrum, iron. Fr. ferrer; It. ferrare, to bind with iron; “ferrare un cavallo,” to shoe a horse. Ferrum is probably from hardness; W. fer, dense, solid; feru, to harden or congeal; feris, steel. A farrier is literally a worker in iron.]

1. A shoer of horses; a smith who shoes horses.
2. One who professes to cure the diseases of horses.

FAR'RIER, v.i.

To practice as a farrier.

FAR'RIER-Y, n.

The art of preventing, curing or mitigating the diseases of horses. Encyc. This is now called the veterinary art.

FAR'ROW, a. [D. vaare; “een vaare koe,” a dry cow; Scot. ferry cow. Qu. the root of bare, barren.]

Not producing young in a particular season or year; applied to cows only. If a cow has had a calf, but fails in a subsequent year, she is said to be farrow, or go farrow. Such a cow may give milk through the year. New England.

FAR'ROW, n. [Sax. fearh, færh; D. varken; G. ferkel.]

A litter of pigs. Shak.

FAR'ROW, v.t.

To bring forth pigs. [Used of swine only.] Tusser.