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ance; far away; -- often used with from preceding, or off following; as, he was seen from afar; I saw him afar off. The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar. Beattie.

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

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

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

The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off. [Obs. or R.]

an enemy, or to give any notice, commonly of warning. No flaming beacons cast their blaze afar. Gay.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.

Blustering winds, which all night long Had roused the sea, now with hoarse cadence lull Seafaring men o'erwatched. Milton. The accents . . . were in passion's tenderest cadence. Sir W. Scott.

; clamor; roar. Think you a little din can daunt mine ears Shak. He knew the battle's din afar. Sir W. Scott. The dust and din and steam of town. Tennyson.

To remove afar off; to withdraw. [Obs.] From worldly cares he did himself eloign. Spenser.

e governing preposition, and the word the adverb. See From off, under Off, adv., and From afar, under Afar, adv. Sudden partings such as press The life from out young hearts. Byron.

Felt inwardly; heartfelt. [R.] The baron stood afar off, or knelt in submissive, acknowledged, infelt inferiority. Milman.

To recognize; to descry; to discern. [Archaic or Scot.] "We ken them from afar." Addison 'T is he. I ken the manner of his gait. Shak.

See Megafarad. [R.]

A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.

A word; hence, a motto; a device. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. Shak.

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 official survey of Great Britain and Ireland, conducted by the ordnance department.

ward. Whether those peals of praise be his or no. Shak. And a deep thunder, peal on peal, afar. Byron.

Of or pertaining to the Phæacians, a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast, the lyre, and the dance, mentioned by Homer.

hich floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.