farenut, varenut

Bot.: Bunium flexuosum . (Britten & Holland .) färe-folk, fä re-folks ( l silent), s. [Etymology doubtful; prob. for fairy - folk .] Fairies, elves. "With Nymphis and Faunis apoun enery syde, Quhilk fare folk is or than elf is clepin we.' pine, pit, sire, sir, Douglas: Virgil, 252, 45. marine; gō, pět, IMG:content-1436.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: Covered with a mealy kind of down. ( Pax- ton.) făr-I-nose, a. [Lat. farinosus , from farina .] 1. Ord. Lang.: Yielding or containing farina. 2. Bot ., Entom ., .: Covered with a light dust or powdery substance, like meal. farm, *far me, v. t . & i. [FARM, 8.] A. Transitive : grees. In the first place lands were let on condition of supplying the lord with so many nights' enter- tainment for his household. Thus the Saxon Chron ., A. D. 775, mentions land let by the Abbot of Peter- borough, on condition that the tenant should an- nually pay £50, and anes nihtes feorme, one night's entertainment. This mode of reckoning constantly appears in Domesday Book : "Reddet firm am trium noctium-i.e., 100 libr." The inconvenience of pay- ment in kind early made universal the substitution of a money payment, which was called firm a alba or blanche fer me , from being paid in silver or white money instead of victuals. Sometimes the rent was called simply firm a , and the same name was given to the farm , or land from whence the rent accrued. From A. S. the word seems to have been adopted in Fr. fer me a farm, or anything held in farm; a lease. ( Wedgwood .)] *3. Rent or money paid for land hired for cultiva- tion. "Please you to wet that, Will. Jeney and Debham came to Calcote and ther they spake with Rysyng and John Smythe, and haskyd hem rente and fer me. 'Sir,' quod Rysyng, 'I toke the fer me of my mas- ter. " -Paston Letters, iii. 431. 4. A tract or piece of land cultivated by a single person, whether owner or tenant. "At my farm I have a hundred milch-kine." Shakesp .: Taming of the Shrew, ii. *5. The state of land leased or let on rent; a lease. "The lords of lands in Ireland do not use to set up their ser: State of Ireland. IMG:content-1437.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1438.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1439.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1440.png:[blocks in formation] 1. The letting out on hire or leasing of taxes, duties, ., for collection; the contracting to collect taxes, duties, ., at a certain rate per cent. 2. The occupation or profe ion of the cultivation of land; agriculture. far-most, a. [Eng. far - most.] Most distant or remote; farthest.