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or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; as, a farmer of the revenues.

A woman who farms.

Skill in farming.

The buildings and yards necessary for the business of a farm; a homestead. [Eng.]

One who keeps a baby farm.

An assistant farmer.

Of or pertaining to Acadie, or Nova Scotia. "Acadian farmers." Longfellow. -- n.

re immediate objects of popular adoration amongst the heathens were deified human beings. Farmer.

An agriculturist; a farmer. [R.]

One engaged or skilled in agriculture; a husbandman. The farmer is always a practitioner, the agriculturist may be a mere theorist. Crabb.

A reserved rent in corn, formerly paid to religious houses by their tenants or farmers. Kennet.

the exchange of property or services; -- followed by with and for; as, to bargain with a farmer for a cow. So worthless peasants bargain for their wives. Shak.

A colonist or farmer in South Africa of Dutch descent.

The raising or improving of any kind of domestic animals; as, farmers should pay attention to breeding.

al powers predominating over the mental; coarse; unpolished; unintelligent. A great brute farmer from Liddesdale. Sir W. Scott.

y, as distinguished from a townsman or an inhabitant of a city; a rustic; a husbandman or farmer. A simple countryman that brought her figs. Shak.

A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.

In Scott's "Guy Mannering", a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers.

s. The established theology of the heathen world . . . rested upon the basis of demonism. Farmer.

An embankment to prevent inundations; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.