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he harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of live stock; tillage; husbandry; farming.

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

Pertaining to agronomy, of the management of farms.

In some provinces of Russia, one who farms the rents or revenues.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

A covered building used chiefly for storing grain, hay, and other productions of a farm. In the United States a part of the barn is often used for stables. Barn owl (Zoöl.), an owl of Europe and America (Aluco flammeus, or Strix flammea), which frequents barns and other buildings. -- Barn swallow (Zoöl.), the common A…

A farmyard. [Eng.] Southey.

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

ottier. The cottar, the bordar, and the laborer were bound to aid in the work of the home farm. J. R. Green.

A wooden hut or humble cot, esp. a rude hut or barrack for unmarried farm servants; a shepherd's or hunter's hut; a booth. [Scot.]

A farm or plantation with its buildings. [U.S.Hist.] The emigrants [in New York] were scattered on boweries or plantations; and seeing the evils of this mode of living widely apart, they were advised, in 1643 and 1646, by the Dutch authorities, to gather into "villages, towns, and hamlets, as the English were in the ha…

ometimes followed by up. But no care was taken to breed him a Protestant. Bp. Burnet. His farm may not remove his children too far from him, or the trade he breeds them up in. Locke.

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

al powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.

and usually are, budded upon the peach; the plum and the peach are budded on each other. Farm. Dict.

merchandise, etc., from one time to another; as, a merchant is carrying a large stock; a farm carries a mortgage; a broker carries stock for a customer; to carry a life insurance. Carry arms (Mil. Drill), a command of the Manual of Arms directing the soldier to hold his piece in the right hand, the barrel resting agai…

A small job; in the pl., the regular or daily light work of a household or farm, either within or without doors. [U. S.]

To underlet a proportion of, for a single crop; -- said of a farm. [Ireland]

A small house; a cottage or hut. The sheltered cot, the cultivated farm. Goldsmith.