3. Like meal; mealy; pertaining to meal; as, a farinaceous taste,
smell, or appearance.
Far`i*nose" (?), a. [L. farinosus: cf. F. farineux.] 1. Yielding
farina; as, farinose substances.
2. (Bot. & Zoˆl.) Covered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the
leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
Farl (?), v. t. Same as Furl. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
Far"lie (?), n. [OE. ferlish wonder, as adj., strange, sudden, fearful,
AS. frlc sudden. See Fear.] An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
See Fearly. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drayton.
Farm (?), n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus
firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See Firm, a. & n.] 1. The
rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its
products. [Obs.]
2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
[Obs.]
It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to
their tenants.
Spenser.
3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of
cultivation.
4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the
management of a tenant or the owner.
In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in
a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as
they are entirely so from the legal sense. Burrill.
5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of
the revenues of government.
The province was devided into twelve farms.
Burke.
6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the
sugar farm, the silk farm.
Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks
per annum.
State Trials (1196).
Farm (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.] 1.
To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use
of to proceeds.
We are enforced to farm our royal realm.
Shak.
2. 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.
To farm their subjects and their duties toward these.
Burke.