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Of all varieties, forms, or kinds. "Omnifarious learning." Coleridge.

A fife; also, a rude kind of oboe or a bagpipe with an inflated skin for reservoir.

Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.

Arranged in four rows or ranks; as, quadrifarious leaves. Loudon.

Arranged in five vertical rows; pentastichous. Gray.

To go over again; to repeat. [Obs.] To him therefore this wonder done refar. Fairfax.

One who follows the sea as a business; a mariner; a sailor.

Following the business of a mariner; as, a seafaring man.

Turned in seven different ways.

en to the public; a public road; hence, a frequented street. A large and splendid thoroughfare. Motley.

Thoroughfare. [Obs.] This world is but a thurghfare full of woe. Chaucer.

Facing three ways; arranged in three vertical ranks, as the leaves of veratrum.

An assistant farmer.

The fieldfare. [Prov. Eng.]

ed on by enemies; hostilities; war. The Philistines gathered their armies together for warfare, to fight with Israel. I Sam. xxviii. 1. This day from battle rest; Faithful hath been your warfare. Milton.

One engaged in warfare; a military man; a soldier; a warrior.

To journey; to travel; to go to and fro. [Obs.] A certain Laconian, as he wayfared, came unto a place where there dwelt an old friend of his. Holland.

One who travels; a traveler; a passenger.

Traveling; passing; being on a journey. "A wayfaring man." Judg. xix. 17. Wayfaring tree (Bot.), a European shrub (Viburnum lantana) having large ovate leaves and dense cymes of small white flowers. -- American wayfaring tree (Bot.), the (Viburnum lantanoides).

mption from any evil or calamity; prosperity; happiness. How to study for the people's welfare. Shak. In whose deep eyes Men read the welfare of the times to come. Emerson.