Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 9

Farm (v. t.) To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

Farm (v. t.) To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes.

Farm (v. t.) To take at a certain rent or rate.

Farm (v. t.) To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

Farm (v. i.) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

Farmable (a.) Capable of being farmed.

Farmer (n.) One who farms

Farmer (n.) One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant.

Farmer (n.) One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman.

Farmer (n.) One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.

Farmer (n.) The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.

Farmeress (n.) A woman who farms.

Farmership (n.) Skill in farming.

Farmery (n.) The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead.

Farmhouse (n.) A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

Farming (a.) Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

Farming (n.) The business of cultivating land.

Farmost (a.) Most distant; farthest.

Farmstead (n.) A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm.

Farmsteading (n.) A farmstead.

Farmyard (n.) The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

Farness (a.) The state of being far off; distance; remoteness.

Faro (n.) A gambling game at cardds, in whiich all the other players play against the dealer or banker, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack.

Faroese (n. sing. & pl.) An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

Far-off (a.) Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

Farraginous (a.) Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain.

Farrago (n.) A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture.

Farrand (n.) Manner; custom; fashion; humor.

Farreation (n.) Same as Confarreation.

Farrier (n.) A shoer of horses; a veterinary surgeon.

Farrier (v. i.) To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier.

Farriery (n.) The art of shoeing horses.

Farriery (n.) The art of preventing, curing, or mitigating diseases of horses and cattle; the veterinary art.

Farriery (n.) The place where a smith shoes horses.

Farrow (n.) A little of pigs.

Farrowed (imp. & p. p.) of Farfow

Farrowing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Farfow

Farfow (v. t. & i.) To bring forth (young); -- said only of swine.

Farrow (a.) Not producing young in a given season or year; -- said only of cows.

Farry (n.) A farrow.

Farse (n.) An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; -- common in English before the Reformation.

Farseeing (a.) Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.

Farseeing (a.) Having foresight as regards the future.

Farsighted (a.) Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

Farsighted (a.) Hypermetropic.

Farsightedness (n.) Quality of bbeing farsighted.

Farsightedness (n.) Hypermetropia.

Farstretched (a.) Streatched beyond ordinary limits.

Farther (superl.) More remote; more distant than something else.

Farther (superl.) Tending to a greater distance; beyond a certain point; additional; further.

Farther (adv.) At or to a greater distance; more remotely; beyond; as, let us rest with what we have, without looking farther.

Farther (adv.) Moreover; by way of progress in treating a subject; as, farther, let us consider the probable event.

Farther (v. t.) To help onward. [R.] See Further.

Fartherance (n.) See Furtherance.

Farthermore (adv.) See Furthermore.

Farthermost (a.) Most remote; farthest.

Farthest (Superl.) Most distant or remote; as, the farthest degree. See Furthest.

Farthest (adv.) At or to the greatest distance. See Furthest.

Farthing (n.) The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being a cent in United States currency.

Farthing (n.) A very small quantity or value.

Farthing (n.) A division of land.

Farthingale (n.) A hoop skirt or hoop petticoat, or other light, elastic material, used to extend the petticoat.

Fasces (pl.) A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

Fascet (n.) A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.

Fasciae (pl. ) of Fascia

Fascia (n.) A band, sash, or fillet; especially, in surgery, a bandage or roller.

Fascia (n.) A flat member of an order or building, like a flat band or broad fillet; especially, one of the three bands which make up the architrave, in the Ionic order. See Illust. of Column.

Fascia (n.) The layer of loose tissue, often containing fat, immediately beneath the skin; the stronger layer of connective tissue covering and investing all muscles; an aponeurosis.

Fascia (n.) A broad well-defined band of color.

Fascial (a.) Pertaining to the fasces.

Fascial (a.) Relating to a fascia.

Fasciate (a.) Alt. of Fasciated

Fasciated (a.) Bound with a fillet, sash, or bandage.

Fasciated (a.) Banded or compacted together.

Fasciated (a.) Flattened and laterally widened, as are often the stems of the garden cockscomb.

Fasciated (a.) Broadly banded with color.

Fasciation (n.) The act or manner of binding up; bandage; also, the condition of being fasciated.

Fascicle (n.) A small bundle or collection; a compact cluster; as, a fascicle of fibers; a fascicle of flowers or roots.

Fascicled (a.) Growing in a bundle, tuft, or close cluster; as, the fascicled leaves of the pine or larch; the fascicled roots of the dahlia; fascicled muscle fibers; fascicled tufts of hair.

Fascicular (a.) Pertaining to a fascicle; fascicled; as, a fascicular root.

Fascicularly (adv.) In a fascicled manner.

Fasciculate (a.) Alt. of Fasciculated

Fasciculated (a.) Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

Fasciculi (pl. ) of Fasciculus

Fasciculus (n.) A little bundle; a fascicle.

Fasciculus (n.) A division of a book.

Fascinated (imp. & p. p.) of Fascinate

Fascinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fascinate

Fascinate (v. t.) To influence in an uncontrollable manner; to operate on by some powerful or irresistible charm; to bewitch; to enchant.

Fascinate (v. t.) To excite and allure irresistibly or powerfully; to charm; to captivate, as by physical or mental charms.

Fascination (n.) The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence.

Fascination (n.) The state or condition of being fascinated.

Fascination (n.) That which fascinates; a charm; a spell.

Fascine (n.) A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Fascinous (a.) Caused or acting by witchcraft.

Fasciolae (pl. ) of Fasciola

Fasciola (n.) A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution.

Fasciole (n.) A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

Fashed (imp. & p. p.) of Fash

Fashing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fash

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