Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

FAR-RUL'ING, a.

Ruling to a great extent of country.

FAR-SEE'ING, a.

Seeing to a great distance.

FAR-SHOOT'ING, a.

Shooting to a great distance. Great Jove, he said, and the far-shooting god. Dryden.

FAR-SIGHT-ED, a.

Seeing to a great distance.

FAR-SIGHT-ED-NESS, n.

The power of seeing far.

FAR-STRETCH'ED, a.

Stretched far.

FAR-THER, a. [comp. Sax. forther, from forth, from the root of faran, to go; D. verder. Farther is corrupt orthography. The genuine word is further.]

1. More remote; more distant than something else. Let me add a farther truth. – Dryden.
2. Longer; tending to a greater distance. Before our farther way the fates allow. – Dryden.

FAR-THER, adv.

1. At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond. Let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.
2. Moreover; by way of progression in a subject. Farther, let us consider the probable event.

FAR-THER, v.t.

To promote; to advance; to help forward. [Little used.]

FAR-THER-ANCE, n.

A helping forward; promotion. [Not used.]

FAR-THER-MORE, adv.

Besides; moreover. [Little used.] Instead of the last three words, we now use further, furtherance, furthermore, – which see.

FAR-THEST, a. [superl. Sax. feorrest; D. verst. See Furthest.]

Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree.

FAR-THEST, adv.

At or to the greatest distance. [See Furthest.]

FAR'THING, n. [Sax. feorthung, from feorth, fourth, from feower, four.]

1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value. In America we have no coin of this kind. We however use the word to denote the fourth part of a penny in value, but the penny is of different value from the English penny, and different in different states. It is becoming obsolete with the old denominations of money.
2. Farthings, in the plural, copper coin. – Gay.
3. Very small price or value. It is not worth a farthing, that is, it is of very little worth, or worth nothing.
4. A division of land. [Not now used.] Thirty acres make a farthing-land; nine farthings, a Cornish acre; and four Cornish acres a knight's fee. – Carew.

FAR-THIN-GALE, n. [This is a compound word, but it is not easy to analyze it. The French has vertugadin; the Sp. verdugado; Port. verdugada; which do not well correspond with the English word. The Italian has guardinfante, infant-guard; and it has been said that the hoop petticoat was first worn by pregnant women.]

A hoop petticoat; or circles of hoops, formed of whalebone, used to extend the petticoat.