farming (farming)

and a. [Verbal n. of farm1, v.] I. n. 1. The practice of letting or leasing taxes, revenue, etc., for collection.2. The busine of collecting taxes. See farm1, v. t., 2.-3. The busine of cultivating land, 2144 or employing it for the purposes of husbandry; agriculture; husbandry. II. a . Pertaining to farms or agriculture: as, farming tools. farm-meal (färm'mēl), n. Meal paid as part of the rent of a farm: a part of the obsolescent system of paying rent in kind. [Scotch.] farm-office (färm'of is), n. One of the outbuildings pertaining to a farm: generally used in the plural as a collective name for all the buildings on a farm exclusive of the dwelling house. [Eng.] farmost (fär most), a. superl. [ A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden, Æneid. farm-place (färm'plās), n. A farm; a farmstead. And whan the me agiers called vpon them, euery man made his excuse: one sayed, he must go se his mainour or far me - place , yt he lately bought. J. Udall , On Mat. xxii. farmstead (färm's ted), n. The collection of buildings belonging to a farm; the homestead on a farm. I... then went wandering away far along chau ées, through fields, beyond cemeteries, Catholic and Protestant, beyond farmsteads , to lanes and little woods. Charlotte Brontë , Villette, xv. But he, by farmstead , thorpe and spire, Came crowing over Thames. Tennyson, Will Waterproof. When a territory was first occupied, the people did not settle in towns, nor even in villages, but in isolated farm . steads. D. W. Ro , German Landholding, p. 52. The village street is closed at the end by a wooden gate, giving it something the look of a large farmstead , in which a right of way lies through the yard. Ruskin , Elements of Drawing. farm-village (färm'vil"āj), n. A village of which the chief industry is farming. A New England farm - village , where there is no distinct "ma " to elevate. G. W. Cable , Home Culture Clubs, iv. farm-yard (färm'yärd), n. The yard or inclosure surrounded by or connected with the farm buildings.