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To free from the influence of a charm or spell; to disenchant. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Unharmonious; discordant. [Obs.] Hallywell.

Want of harmony; discord; incongruity. [R.] A disharmony in the different impulses that constitute it [our nature]. Coleridge.

A mark for identification; a distinguishing mark. Money is said to have no earmark. Wharton. Flying, he [a slave] should be described by the rounding of his head, and his earmark. Robynson (More's Utopia). A set of intellectual ideas . . . have earmarks upon them, no tokens of a particular proprietor. Burrow.…

Same as Armed, 3.

ng endeared; also, that which manifests, excites, or increases, affection. "The great endearments of prudent and temperate speech." Jer. Taylor. Her first endearments twining round the soul. Thomson.

Of or pertaining to that one of the three kinds of musical scale (diatonic, chromatic, enharmonic) recognized by the ancient Greeks, which consisted of quarter tones and major thirds, and was regarded as the most accurate.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

Producing mathematically perfect harmony or concord; sweetly or perfectly harmonious.

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.

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.