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Military service; warfare. [Obs.] Baxter.

The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.

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

Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons and appliances used in war. All the battlements their ordnance fire. Shak. Then you may hear afar off the awful roar of his [Rufus Choate's] rifled ordnance. E. Ererett. Ordnance survey, the off…

ream is passablein boats. His body's a passable carcass if it be not hurt; it is a throughfare for steel. Shak.

Price paid for the liberty to pass; fare; as, to pay one's passage.

A passer or passer-by; a wayfarer. Shak.

Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country. Berkley.

A wayfarer; a wanderer; a traveler; a stranger. Strangers and pilgrims on the earth. Heb. xi. 13.

To adorn with feathers or plumes. "Farewell the plumed troop." Shak.

Warfare; war; hence, contention; opposition. [Obs.]

numbers, genders, etc., as in Tennyson's line, -- "My own heart's heart, and ownest own, farewell."

n fish, similar to the cod, but of inferior quality. Poor-john and apple pies are all our fare. Sir J. Harrington.

iesthood; sacerdotal; befitting or becoming a priest; as, the priestly office; a priestly farewell. Shak.

o take without opposition or expressed dissatisfaction; to endure; as, to put up with bad fare.

In ancient warfare, a long beam suspended by slings in a framework, and used for battering the walls of cities; a battering- ram.

The fieldfare.

A machine for registering automatically the number of persons passing through a gateway, fares taken, etc.; a telltale.

on, as for a holy being or place; the disposition to revere; veneration. If thou be poor, farewell thy reverence. Chaucer. Reverence, which is the synthesis of love and fear. Coleridge. When discords, and quarrels, and factions, are carried openly and audaciously, it is a sign the reverence of government islost. Bacon.…

many desperate studies. Shak. There he shall first lay down the rudiments Of his great warfare. Milton.