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noun

Farm n.

1.

The rent of land, originally paid by reservation of part of its products. (Obs.)

2.

The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. (Obs.) "It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants."

3.

The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

4.

Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense.

5.

A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. "The province was devided into twelve farms."

6.

(O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. "Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum."

verb

Farm v. t. (past & past part. farmed; pres. part. farming)

1.

To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. "We are enforced to farm our royal realm."

2.

To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc., on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. "To farm their subjects and their duties toward these."

3.

To take at a certain rent or rate.

4.

To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.

Farm v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

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"Farm" Quotes from Famous Books

... at Shotter Mill, but she and Mr. Lewes lived in such seclusion that there was very little to be told. They seldom crossed their threshold during the day, but wandered over the commons and hills after sundown. They were very anxious to lodge at the picturesque old farm, ten minutes' walk beyond Brookbank, but all available room was then occupied. However, George Eliot would often visit the farmer's wife, and, sitting on a grassy bank just beside the kitchen door, would discuss the growth of fruit and the quality of butter in a manner so quiet ...

— George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings & Philosophy • George Willis Cooke

... send Hans as soon as possible with a pair of horses to the hill farm for her. It is too cold for her to be up there ...

— Three Comedies • Bjornstjerne M. Bjornson

... married to Frank Bell in a fortnight's time. Mrs. Spencer was pleased with the match. She was very fond of Frank, and his farm was so near to her own that she would not lose Rachel altogether. Rachel fondly believed that her mother would not lose her at all; but Isabella Spencer, wiser by olden experience, knew what her daughter's ...

— Further Chronicles of Avonlea • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... because his inheritance cannot be removed, and it would be improbable that he should risk the loss of it by eloping from his district, which is too frequently practised by a farmer when he is hard-pressed for the payment of his balances, and as frequently predetermined when he receives his farm." That, notwithstanding all the preceding declarations made by the said Warren Hastings of the loss of one third of the inhabitants and general decline of the country, he did, immediately after his appointment to the government, in the year 1772, make an arbitrary settlement of ...

— The Works Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IX. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... This is one of a few lines in which he requests Mr. Lear's acceptance of some garden seeds for his garden and farm. They were portions of some sent to him from England to be planted ...

— Washington in Domestic Life • Richard Rush

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