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noun

Farce n.

(Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. "Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false."

Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state."

verb

Farce v. t. (past & past part. farced, pres. part. farcing)

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. (Obs.) "The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets." "His tippet was aye farsed full of knives."

To render fat. (Obs.) "If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs."

To swell out; to render pompous. (Obs.) "Farcing his letter with fustian."

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"Farce" Quotes from Famous Books

... vanity made a farce of the funeral. A big, bull-necked publican, with heavy, blotchy features, and a supremely ignorant expression, picked up the priest's straw hat and held it about two inches over the head of his reverence during the whole of the service. The father, ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... garrison of Washington was a brigade of infantry and a battery of artillery. I never doubted Mr. Johnson's sincerity in wishing to befriend me, but this was the broadest kind of a farce, or meant mischief. I therefore appealed to him by letter to allow me to remain where I was, and where I could do service, real service, and ...

— Memoirs of Three Civil War Generals, Complete • U. S. Grant, W. T. Sherman, P. H. Sheridan

... the face, nor the great size of the man that rendered him ridiculous. Quite the contrary. A glance at these had rather an opposite tendency. What was laughable about him was his costume; and if he had been done up for a farce upon the stage, or a Christmas pantomime, he could not have been dressed in a more ludicrous manner. Upon his body was a uniform coat of bright-scarlet cloth, the cut and facings of which told that it had once done duty in the army of King George. It had been a ...

— Ran Away to Sea • Mayne Reid

... conclude with a farce, that I may not leave you in ill humour. I have so good an opinion of your taste, to believe Harlequin in person will never make you laugh so much as the Earl of Stair's furious passion for Lady Walpole (aged fourteen and some months). Mrs. Murray undertook to bring ...

— Lady Mary Wortley Montague - Her Life and Letters (1689-1762) • Lewis Melville

... greeted us with loud yells, and slapped us on our backs, as though they looked upon our capture as a most excellent joke. The majority of our fellow-prisoners were confined for attempting to leave the camp to visit their friends; but putting them in the guard-house was only a farce, for I had not been in the room fifteen minutes before I saw three men make their escape through a window. I determined to try the same thing; so, after waiting a few moments, to see that they were not brought back, I walked up to the window and looked out. A sentinel ...

— Frank on the Lower Mississippi • Harry Castlemon

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