Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FAR'IN, or FA-RI'NA
FAR'IN, or FA-RI'NA, n. [L. farina, meal.]
- 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.
- 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.
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