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remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent. They said, . . . We be come from a far country. Josh. ix. 6. The nations far and near contend in choice. Dryden.

A going out of the way; a digression. [Obs.] Fuller.

Remote; as, the far-off distance. Cf. Far-off, under Far, adv.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

Stretched beyond ordinary limits.

The standard unit of electrical capacity; the capacity of a condenser whose charge, having an electro-motive force of one volt, is equal to the amount of electricity which, with the same electromotive force, passes through one ohm in one second; the capacity, which, charged with one coulomb, gives an electro-motive for…

Of or pertaining to Michael Faraday, the distinguished electrician; -- applied especially to induced currents of electricity, as produced by certain forms of inductive apparatus, on account of Faraday's investigations of their laws.

The treatment with faradic or induced currents of electricity for remedial purposes.

To stimulate with, or subject to, faradic, or inducted, electric currents. --Far"a*diz`er (#), n.

See Farrand, n.

A fabrik made of silk and wool or hair. Simmonds.

A rapid dance in six-eight time in which a large number join hands and dance in various figures, sometimes moving from room to room. It originated in Provence.

Orderly; comely; respectable. [Obs.] Halliwell.

ngredients; to fill full; to stuff. [Obs.] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. Chaucer.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are Gay. -- Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n.

Pudding stone. [Obs.] Kirwan.

Same as Farcy.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [Obs.]