Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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 petticout was first worn by pregnant women.]

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

FAR-THINGS-WORTH, n.

As much as is sold for a farthing. Arbuthnot.

FAS'CES, n. [plur. L. fascis, W. fasg, a bundle; fascia, a band. See Class Bz, No. 24, 35, 60.]

In Roman antiquity, an ax tied up with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority. Dryden.

FAS'CI-A, n. [fash'ia; L. a band or sash.]

1. A band, sash, or fillet. In architecture, any flat member with a small projecture, as the band of an architrave. Also, in brick buildings, the jutting of the bricks beyond the windows in the several stories except the highest. Encyc.
2. In astronomy, the belt of a planet.
3. In surgery, a bandage, roller or ligature. Parr.
4. In anatomy, a tendinous expansion or aponeurosis; a thin tendinous covering which surrounds the muscles of the limbs, and binds them in their places. Parr. Cyc.

FAS'CI-AL, a. [fash'ial.]

Belonging to the fasces.

FAS'CI-A-TED, a. [fash'iated.]

Bound with a fillet, sash or bandage.

FAS-CI-A'TION, n. [fashia'tion.]

The act or manner of binding up diseased parts; bandage. Wiseman.

FAS'CI-CLE, n. [L. fasciculus, from fascis, a bundle.]

In botany, an aggregate of fastigiate flowers whose foot stalks or peduncles spring irregularly from the top of the main stem, not from one point, but from several. Decand. Wiled

FAS-CIC'U-LAR, a. [L. fascicularis.]

United in a bundle; as, a fascicular root, a root of the tuberous kind, with the knobs collected in bundles, as in Pæonia. Martyn.

FAS-CIC'U-LAR-LY, adv.

In the form of bundles. Kirwan.

FAS-CIC'U-LATE, or FAS-CIC'U-LA-TED, a. [or FAS'CI-CLED. from fasciculus, supra.]

Growing in bundles or bunches from the same point, as the leaves of the Larix or larch. Martyn.