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The governor of a province or people. Lew Wallace.

The dominion of an ethnarch; principality and rule. Wright.

, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc.

The office or the province of an exarch. Jer. Taylor.

gredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. Chaucer.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are Gay. -- Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n.

Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.

Same as Farcy.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]

he head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen.

A genus of plants, including the mangosteen tree (Garcinia Mangostana), found in the islands of the Indian Archipelago; -- so called in honor of Dr. Garcin.

A boy; fellow; esp., a serving boy or man; a waiter; -- in Eng. chiefly applied to French waiters.

A land crab of the genus Gecarcinus, or of allied genera.

The chief of a family or tribe.

British or British colonial architecture of the period of the four Georges, especially that of the period before 1800.

See Gynarchy.

An Athenian officer who superintended the gymnasia, and provided the oil and other necessaries at his own expense.

Government by a woman. Chesterfield.