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One who farms; as:

A woman who farms.

Skill in farming.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]

A dwelling house on a farm; a farmer's residence.

Pertaining to agriculture; devoted to, adapted to, or engaged in, farming; as, farming tools; farming land; a farming community.

Most distant; farthest. A spacious cave within its farmost part. Dryden.

A farm with the building upon it; a homestead on a farm. Tennyson. With its pleasant groves and farmsteads. Carlyle.

A farmstead. [Scot.] Black.

The yard or inclosure attached to a barn, or the space inclosed by the farm buildings.

The state of being far off; distance; remoteness. [R.] Grew.

taking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack. Faro bank, the capital which the proprietor of a farotable ventures in the game; also, the place where a game of faro is played. Hoyle.

An inhabitant, or, collectively, inhabitants, of the Faroe islands.

Formed of various materials; mixed; as, a farraginous mountain. [R.] Kirwan. AA farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages. Sir T. Browne.

A mass ccomposed of various materials confusedly mixed; a medley; a mixture. A confounded farrago of doubts, fears, hopes, wishes, and all the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

Same as Confarreation.

To practice as a farrier; to carry on the trade of a farrier. [Obs.] Mortimer.

The art of shoeing horses.

A little of pigs. Shak.