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A bundle or little pack; hence, a burden. [Obs.] Shak. A fardel of never-ending misery and suspense. Marryat.

The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen.

A farthingale. [Obs.]

The fourth part of an acre of land. [Obs.] [Written also farding dale, fardingale, etc.]

To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden. Milton.

p. p. of Fare, v. i. Chaucer.

both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear. Milton. Fare thee well! and i…

Farfetched. [Obs.] York with his farfet policy. Shak.

To bring from far; to seek out studiously. [Obs.] To farfetch the name of Tartar from a Hebrew word. Fuller.

Brought from far, or from a remote place. Every remedy contained a multitude of farfetched and heterogeneous ingredients. Hawthorne.

A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery.

Consisting or made of meal or flour; as, a farinaceous diet.

Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances.

Same as Furl. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Drayton.

cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser.

Capable of being farmed.

One who farms; as:

A woman who farms.