<B>farfel, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Jewish Cookery.) noodle dough cut into small pellets or grains. </DL>
<A NAME="farfetched">
<B>far-fetched, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>not closely related to the topic; remotely connected; forced; strained. <BR> <I>Ex. a far-fetched comparison. His excuse was too far-fetched for anyone to believe.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) brought from afar. </DL>
<A NAME="farflung">
<B>far-flung, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> covering a large area; widely spread. <BR> <I>Ex. Many American banks have far-flung operations in Europe, Asia, and South America. ... this far-flung vista of the land he loved (Harry Emerson Fosdick).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="farforth">
<B>farforth, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to a definite degree, extent, or distance. </DL>
<A NAME="fargone">
<B>far-gone, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> advanced to a great extent. <BR> <I>Ex. the far-gone night, a far-gone romance.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="farina">
<B>farina, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a flour or meal made from grain, potatoes, beans, nuts, or starchy root, and used especially as cereal or in puddings. <DD><B> 2. </B>starch. <DD><B> 3. </B>a coarse, white corn meal. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Biology.) a mealy, powdery substance, such as the pollen of flowers or the powder found on certain insects. </DL>
<A NAME="farinaceous">
<B>farinaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting or made of flour or meal; starchy; mealy. <BR> <I>Ex. Cereals, bread, and potatoes are farinaceous foods.</I> adv. <B>farinaceously.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="farinhademandioca">
<B>farinha de mandioca,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a coarse meal resembling corn meal, ground from the cassava root. It is the main food for many Brazilians in the farming regions. </DL>
<A NAME="farinose">
<B>farinose, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>yielding farina. <DD><B> 2. </B>like farina or meal. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Biology.) covered with a white, mealy substance. </DL>
<A NAME="farish">
<B>Farish, </B>adjective. <B>=Faeroese.</B></DL>
<A NAME="farkleberry">
<B>farkleberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shrub or small tree of the heath family, growing in the southern United States, and bearing small, inedible black berries. </DL>
<A NAME="farl">
<B>farl</B> or <B>farle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) a small, thin cake made of oatmeal or flour. </DL>
<A NAME="farm">
<B>farm, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a piece of land which a person uses to raise crops or animals. <BR> <I>Ex. a potato farm, a chicken farm.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>anything like a farm. A tract of water for cultivating oysters is an oyster farm. <DD><B> 3. </B>(U.S.) a minor-league baseball team belonging to or associated with a major-league club. Young players are usually sent to a farm to gain experience. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) <DD><B> a. </B>fixed yearly amount payable in the form of rent, taxes, or the like. <DD><B> b. </B>a fixed yearly amount accepted from a person instead of taxes, or the like, that he is authorized to collect. <DD><B> 5a. </B>the letting out of the collection of public taxes. <DD><B> b. </B>the condition of being let out at a fixed amount. <BR> <I>Ex. a district in farm.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>a district let out for the collection of taxes. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to raise crops or animals on a farm either to eat or to sell; be a farmer. <BR> <I>Ex. Her father farms for a living.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cultivate (land); till. <BR> <I>Ex. He farms forty acres.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to take proceeds or profits of (a tax or undertaking) on paying a fixed sum. <DD><B> 3. </B>to let the labor or services of (a person) for hire. <BR> <I>Ex. He farmed his pickers to work in the beet fields.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to let out (taxes, revenues, or an enterprise) to another for a fixed sum or percentage. <BR> <I>Ex. Mr. Bell farms the right to pick berries on his land.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>to contract for the maintenance of (paupers, children, or other indigents). <BR> <I>Ex. The parish authorities ... resolved that Oliver should be "farmed" (Dickens).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>farm out,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to let for hire or subcontract. </I> <I>Ex. He farms out the right to pick berries on his land. The principal issues in dispute are the unions' demands the Pennsy quit farming out ... repair and construction work (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Baseball.) to assign to a minor-league team. <BR> <I>Ex. The Cardinals farmed out a rookie pitcher.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>to live for a time; stay during the duration of. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a laconic realist determined to farm out the war in an edgy Southern community (New York Times). The actors don't have enough money to live elsewhere so they farm out in whatever community they are playing (Harper's).</I> adj. <B>farmable.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="farmbelt">
<B>Farm Belt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a region of the United States consisting of the Midwestern agricultural states. </DL>
<A NAME="farmbloc">
<B>farm bloc,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group in Congress from different political parties that favors laws to help the farmers. </DL>
<A NAME="farmer">
<B>farmer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who raises crops or animals on a farm. (SYN) agriculturist. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who takes a contract for the collection of taxes by agreeing to pay a certain sum to the government. </DL>
<A NAME="farmercheese">
<B>farmer cheese,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a soft, white cheese made from whole or partly skimmed milk. </DL>
<B>farmerette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Informal.) a woman or girl who farms or works on a farm. </DL>
<A NAME="farmergeneral">
<B>farmer-general, </B>noun, pl. <B>farmers-general.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who paid a fixed sum for the right to collect certain taxes in France before the Revolution. </DL>
<A NAME="farmerslung">
<B>farmer's lung,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a disease of the lungs caused by inhalation of the dust of moldy hay or other vegetable produce. <BR> <I>Ex. Farmer's lung is widespread throughout the central part of the United States and Canada (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="farmery">
<B>farmery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the buildings, yards, and the like, of a farm. <DD><I>adj. </I> like a farmer. <BR> <I>Ex. [He] makes his cheese with farmery care (George W. Thornbury).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="farmhand">
<B>farm hand,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works on a farm. </DL>
<A NAME="farmhold">
<B>farmhold, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a quantity of land held and cultivated as a farm. </DL>
<A NAME="farmhouse">
<B>farmhouse, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a house in which a farmer and his family live. </DL>
<A NAME="farming">
<B>farming, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>the occupation or business of raising crops or animals on a farm; agriculture. (SYN) husbandry, tillage. <DD><B> 2. </B>the practice of letting out the collection of public revenue. <DD><B> 3. </B>the condition of being let out at a fixed sum. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or for farms or farming. </DL>
<A NAME="farmland">
<B>farmland, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> land used or suitable for raising crops or grazing. <BR> <I>Ex. In the grain lands of the Vojovdina, Yugoslavia's richest farmland, I saw rolling acres of splendid maize (Manchester Guardian).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="farmstead">
<B>farmstead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a farm with its buildings. </DL>
<A NAME="farmsteading">
<B>farmsteading, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Especially British.) a farmstead. </DL>
<A NAME="farmsystem">
<B>farm system,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) the system of farming out or assigning young baseball players to a minor-league team. <DD><B> 2. </B>(in Canada) a similar system for training hockey players. </DL>
<A NAME="farmwife">
<B>farmwife, </B>noun, pl. <B>-wives.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a farmer's wife; farmeress. <DD><B> 2. </B>a woman who farms; woman farmer. </DL>
<A NAME="farmworker">
<B>farmworker, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) a farm hand. </DL>
<A NAME="farmyard">
<B>farmyard, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a yard connected with farm buildings or enclosed by them. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Especially British.) a barnyard. </DL>
<A NAME="farnesol">
<B>farnesol, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless liquid found in many flowers and essential oils. It has a delicate floral odor and is used in perfumes. </DL>
<A NAME="faro">
<B>faro, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gambling game played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear in the dealer's pack. </DL>
<A NAME="farobank">
<B>faro bank,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an establishment where faro is played. </DL>
<A NAME="faroese">
<B>Faroese, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ese.</B> <B>=Faeroese.</B></DL>
<A NAME="faroff">
<B>far-off, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> distant; far away. (SYN) remote. </DL>
<B>far-out, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1a. </B>far away from the ordinary; very unconventional; experimental; avant-garde. <BR> <I>Ex. What began a few seasons ago as a real far-out and rather random sport has achieved formal status and regular schedules (New York Times Magazine).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>extreme. <BR> <I>Ex. a far-out reactionary.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>far away from common experience; highly theoretical; abstruse. <BR> <I>Ex. far-out research.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>transported; inspired. <BR> <I>Ex. a far-out look, far-out jazz fans.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>far removed in space; very distant in space. <BR> <I>Ex. Although Pluto, the solar system's most far-out planet, has appeared to be growing slightly dimmer for the past ten years, this is not a permanent change (Science News).</I> noun <B>far-out-ness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="farouter">
<B>far-outer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a person who is far-out; very unconventional person. <BR> <I>Ex. Only the most hardy far-outers wear them [overcoats] as short or shorter than their skirts (Sunday Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="farpoint">
<B>far point,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Optics.) the point farthest from the eye at which an image is clearly formed on the retina when accommodation is relaxed. </DL>
<A NAME="farraginous">
<B>farraginous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> consisting of various materials; confused; jumbled. <BR> <I>Ex. A farraginous concurrence of all conditions, tempers, sexes, and ages (Thomas Browne).</I> </DL>
