farrow1 (faro)

t. [= Sc. ferry, There were three sucking pigs serv'd vp in a dish, Ta'en from the sow as soon as farrowed . Mas singer, City Madam, ii. 1. In the thirteenth Year of this King, many Prodigies were seen; a Pig was farrowed with a Face like a Child, a Chicken was hatched with four Legs. Baker , Chronicles, p. 43. farrow2 (far'ō), a . [Always in reference to a cow, and prob. first in phrase farrow cow ; usually connected with D. vaarkoe , also simply vaars , a heifer, in OD. vers - kalf , verse , varse = MHG. verse , G. färse , a heifer, a fem.corresponding to a masc. form, D. var , varre , a bullock, = OHG. far , farro , MHG. var , varre , G. farre = Icel. farri , a bullock, = AS. fearr , a bull. The AS. word is not found later, and can hardly be the source of farrow ; it would have produced ME. * ferr , mod. E. * far .] 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 to go farrow. Wi' good white bread, and farrow -cow milk, He bade her feed me aft. Lord Randal (A) (Child's Ballads, II. 24). I wou'd feed ye with the ferra cow's milk, An' dre ye i' the finest silk. The Minister's Dochter o' Newarke (Child's Ballads, II. 377). farry (far'i), n. A dialectal variant of farrow1 . farset (färs), n . [ fars a , prop. fem. of fars us , pp. of L. farcire , stuff, fill up: see farce1 .] In some English churches before the reformation, a paraphrase or explanation of the Latin epistle in the vernacular tongue, read or sung for the benefit of the people immediately after the epistle. Then follows the le on from the Epistle of St. Paul to Titus, and then the farse proceeds, "St. Paul sent this ditty," etc. Dr. Burney, Hist. Music, II. 256. farset (färs), v . t . [Same as farcel , v .] Eccles ., to extend by interpolation, as a part of the prescribed service: a frequent practice in the middle ages. Thus, the Gloria in Excels is was sometimes farsed by interpolations in honor of the Virgin Mary. far-seeing (fär'sē"ing), a. Seeing far; having foresight or forethought. There was no Wolsey now, with a European policy, sagacious, farseeing , and patriotic. Athenœum, No, 3147, p. 209.