Webster's Dictionary 1828

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FARMER

F'ARMER, noun1. In Great Britain, a tenant; a lessee; one who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground.2. One who takes taxes, customs, excise or other duties,...

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FARMHOUSE

F'ARMHOUSE, noun A house attached to a farm, and for the residence of a farmer.

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FARMING

F'ARMING, participle present tense1. Letting or leasing land on rent reserved, or duties and imposts at a certain rate per cent.2. Taking on lease.3. Cultivating land; carrying ...

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FARMOST

F'ARMOST, adjective [far and most.] Most distant or remote.

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FARMYARD

F'ARMYARD, noun The yard or inclosure attached to a barn; or the inclosure surrounded by the farm buildings.

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FARNESS

F'ARNESS, noun [from far.] Distance; remoteness.

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FARRAGINOUS

FARRAG'INOUS, adjective [Latin farrago, a mixture, from far, meal.]Formed of various materials; mixed; as a farraginous mountain.

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FARRAGO

FARRA'GO, noun [Latin from far, meal.] A mass composed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley.

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FARREATION

FARREATION. [See Confarreation.]

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FARRIER

FAR'RIER, noun [Latin ferrarius, from ferrum, iron.]1. A shoer of horses; a smith who shoes horses.2. One who professes to cure the diseases of horses.FAR'RIER, verb intransitiv...

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FARRIERY

FAR'RIERY, noun The art of preventing, curing or mitigating the diseases of horses.

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FARROW

FAR'ROW, noun A litter of pigs.FAR'ROW, verb transitive To bring forth pigs. [Used of swine only.]FAR'ROW, adjectiveNot producing young in a particular season or year; applied t...

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FARTHER

F'ARTHER, adjectivecomparative1. More remote; more distant than something else.Let me add a farther truth.2. Longer; tending to a greater distance.Before our farther way the fat...

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FARTHERANCE

F'ARTHERANCE, noun A helping forward; promotion. [Not used.]

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FARTHERMORE

F'ARTHERMORE, adverb Besides; moreover. [Little used.]

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FARTHEST

F'ARTHEST, adjectivesuperlative [See Furthest.]Most distant or remote; as the farthest degree.F'ARTHEST, adverb At or to the greatest distance. [See Furthest.]

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FARTHING

F'ARTHING, noun1. The fourth of a penny; a small copper coin of Great Britain, being the fourth of a penny in value. In America we have no coin of this kind. We however use the ...

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FARTHINGALE

F'ARTHINGALE, noun [This is a compound word, but it is not easy to analyze it.]A hoop petticoat; or circles of hoops, formed of whalebone, used to extend the petticoat.

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FARTHINGSWORTH

F'ARTHINGSWORTH, noun As much as is sold for a farthing.

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FASCES

FAS'CES, nounplural [Latin fascis.]In Roman antiquity, an ax tied with a bundle of rods, and borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.

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FASCIA

FAS'CIA, noun fash'ia. [Latin a band or sash.]1. A band, sash or fillet. In architecture, any flat member with a small projecture, as the band of an architrave. Also, in brick b...

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FASCIAL

FAS'CIAL, a fash'ial. Belonging to the fasces.

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FASCIATED

FAS'CIATED, adjective fash'iated. Bound with a fillet, sash or bandage.

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FASCIATION

FASCIA'TION, noun fashia'tion. The act or manner of binding up diseased parts; bandage.

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FASCICLE

FAS'CICLE, noun [Latin fasciculus, from fascis, a bundle.]In botany, a bundle, or little bundle; a species of inflorescence, or manner of flowering, in which several upright, pa...

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FASCICLED

FAS'CICLED, adjective [from fasciculus, supra.]Growing in bundles or bunches from the same point, as the leaves of the Larix or larch.

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FASCICULAR

FASCIC'ULAR, adjective [Latin fascicularis.] United in a bundle; as a fascicular root, a root of the tuberous kind, with the knobs collected in bundles, as in Paeonia.