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The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] Longfellow.

A system of farming on halves. [France & Italy]

ase, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has…

disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been vari…

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

Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to Ant: new land, that is, to land lately cleared.

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

xcess; to invade and occupy; to take possession of; as, the vine overran its trellis; the farm is overrun with witch grass. Those barbarous nations that overran the world. Spenser.

To fill too full; to supply in excess; as, to overstock a market with goods, or a farm with cattle.

. These ghostly kings would parcel out my power. Dryden. The broad woodland parceled into farms. Tennyson.

To feed, esp. to feed on growing grass; to supply grass as food for; as, the farmer pastures fifty oxen; the land will pasture forty cows.

To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.

A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.

To furnish; to stock, as a house or farm. [Scot.]

A plan or draught of a field, farm, estate, etc., drawn to a scale.

Consisting of land or farms; landed; as, predial estate; that is, real estate. Ayliffe.

ght, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the products of the season, or of the farm; the products of manufactures; the products of the brain. There are the product Of those ill-mated marriages. Milton. These institutions are the products of enthusiasm. Burke.

xclusive title to anything, whether in possession or not; an owner; as, the proprietor of farm or of a mill.

A farmer of the taxes and public revenues; hence, a collector of toll or tribute. The inferior officers of this class were often oppressive in their exactions, and were regarded with great detestation. As Jesus at meat . . . many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. Matt. 1x. 10. How like…

To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant.