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Fare   /fɛr/   Listen
noun
Fare  n.  
1.
A journey; a passage. (Obs.) "That nought might stay his fare."
2.
The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
3.
Ado; bustle; business. (Obs.) "The warder chid and made fare."
4.
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. "What fare? what news abroad?"
5.
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare."
6.
The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
7.
The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Bill of fare. See under Bill.
Fare indicator or Fare register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc.
Fare wicket.
(a)
A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number of persons passing it.
(b)
An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor.


verb
Fare  v. i.  (past & past part. fared; pres. part. faring)  
1.
To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. "So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden."
2.
To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill. "So fares the stag among the enraged hounds." "I bid you most heartily well to fare." "So fared the knight between two foes."
3.
To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. "There was a certain rich man which... fared sumptuously every day."
4.
To happen well, or ill; used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. "So fares it when with truth falsehood contends."
5.
To behave; to conduct one's self. (Obs.) "She ferde (fared) as she would die."





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"Fare" Quotes from Famous Books



... man, Abdu," said one of his companions, sneeringly, "and very brave. Go and cut yonder dog's ropes and see how you will fare! Allah! but he would eat ...
— Under the Rebel's Reign • Charles Neufeld
... one only to find when we had eaten it that we had changed our minds and wanted watermelon, which see-saw opinions we kept up till all the melons were gone. It would be impossible for any one who had not had our canyon fare to appreciate the exhilarating effect of this ...
— A Canyon Voyage • Frederick S. Dellenbaugh
... throughout the year. As soon, therefore, as I was convinced that the adjacent country was safe, I bought it, and settled upon it in good earnest, abandoning the V hut. I did so with some regret, for we had good fare enough in it, and I rather liked it; we had only stones for seats, but we made splendid fires, and got fresh and clean snow-grass to lie on, and dried the floor with wood-ashes. Then we confined the snow-grass within certain limits by means ...
— A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Samuel Butler
... are grown fat with devouring his father's beeves, fare on which you seem to thrive, le Maure," said the one-eyed, "though you were not wont to like English beef and English discipline better than Gascon wine and Gascon freedom. I begin to think that the cub of the Black Wolf of the Pyrenees ...
— The Lances of Lynwood • Charlotte M. Yonge
... recollections of the river camps of his childhood. There were the same long tables covered with red oilcloth, the same pine benches worn smooth and shiny, the same thick crockery, and the same huge receptacles steaming with hearty—and well-cooked—food. Nowhere does the man who labours with his hands fare better than in the average lumber camp. Forest operations have a largeness in conception and execution that leads away from the habit of the mean, small and foolish economics. At one side, and near the windows, stood a smaller table. The covering of this ...
— The Rules of the Game • Stewart Edward White


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