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haracter or fame; honorable estimation; distinction. What men of name resort to him Shak. Far above ... every name that is named, not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. Eph. i. 21. I will get me a name and honor in the kingdom. 1 Macc. iii. 14. He hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin. Deut. xx…

Not to step out enough to the one hand or the other; as, a horse narrows. Farrier's Dict.

b) A proximal bone on the radial side of the carpus; the scaphoid. -- Navicular disease (Far.), a disease affecting the navicular bone, or the adjacent parts, in a horse's foot.

A decree of the Congregation of the Council declaring invalid [so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are concerned] any marriage of a Roman Catholic, or of a person who has ever been a Roman Catholic, if not contracted before a duty qualified priest (or the bishop of the diocese) and at least two witnesses. T…

A person who never does, or fares, well; a good for nothing.

Closely; intimately. Shak. Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region. -- To come near to, to want but little of; to approximate to. "Such a sum he found would go near to ruin him." Addison. -- Near the wind (Naut.), close to the wind; closehauled.

. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.

s affair; to bargain or trade; as, to negotiate with a man for the purchase of goods or a farm.

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. Chaucer. Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak.

ation that takes no part in a contest between others; one who is neutral. The neutral, as far as commerce extends, becomes a party in the war. R. G. Harper.

To make noble; to ennoble. [Obs.] Thou nobledest so far forth our nature. Chaucer.

Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.

Farthest north.

Lying farthest north; northernmost. Northmost part of the coast of Mozambique. De Foe.

A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north. Faraday.

kout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. Farrow.

d in the adult. -- Occipital point (Anat.), the point of the occiput in the mesial plane farthest from the ophryon.

he several formations, preparatory to marching to the general parade for field exercises. Farrow. -- To be well off, to be in good condition. -- To be ill off, To be badly off, to be in poor condition.

Not young; advanced far in years or life; having lived till toward the end of the ordinary term of living; as, an old man; an old age; an old horse; an old tree. Let not old age disgrace my high desire. Sir P. Sidney. The melancholy news that we grow old. Young.

A single farmhouse; a steading. [Prov.Eng. & Scot.] Grose. Jamieson.