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noun

Farewell n.

A wish of happiness or welfare at parting; the parting compliment; a good-by; adieu.

Act of departure; leave-taking; a last look at, or reference to something. "And takes her farewell of the glorious sun." "Before I take my farewell of the subject."

interjection

Farewell interj. Go well; good-by; adieu; originally applied to a person departing, but by custom now applied both to those who depart and those who remain. It is often separated by the pronoun; as, fare you well; and is sometimes used as an expression of separation only; as, farewell the year; farewell, ye sweet groves; that is, I bid you farewell. "So farewell hope, and with hope, farewell fear." "Fare thee well! and if forever, Still forever fare thee well." Note: The primary accent is sometimes placed on the first syllable, especially in poetry.

adjective

Farewell adj. Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. "Leans in his spear to take his farewell view."

Farewell rock (Mining), the Millstone grit; so called because no coal is found worth working below this stratum. It is used for hearths of furnaces, having power to resist intense heat.

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Etymology of 'Farewell'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Farewell" Quotes from Famous Books

... science is their product. To be included with the classics are modern history and literature, the philosophers, the orators, the statesmen, and poets,—Milton and Shakespeare, Lowell and Whittier,—the Farewell Address, the Reply to Hayne, the Speech at Gettysburg,—it is all these and more that I mean by the classics. They give not only power to the intellect, but direct ...

— Have faith in Massachusetts; 2d ed. - A Collection of Speeches and Messages • Calvin Coolidge

... of character was early felt. An aged relation, Lucien Buonaparte, Archdeacon of Ajaccio, called the young people about his death-bed to take farewell and bless them: "You, Joseph," said the expiring man, "are the eldest; but Napoleon is the head of his family. Take care to remember my words." Napoleon took excellent care that they should not be forgotten. He began with beating his elder ...

— The History of Napoleon Buonaparte • John Gibson Lockhart

... you. The dragon may deem the prey not worth seizing, if he cannot swallow us both. Perhaps he may delay, in order more surely to execute his purpose; in the meantime you may see matters in their true light. But then, be prompt! Lose not a moment! Save,—oh, save yourself! Farewell!—Let nothing escape your vigilance:—how many troops he brings with him; how he garrisons the town; what force the Regent retains; how your friends are prepared. Send ...

— Egmont - A Tragedy In Five Acts • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

... scarcely sufficed to make him realize all that had occurred in this lonely spot. He could not seem to separate his thought from the cavalcade which had just departed, leaving behind the memory of that farewell wave of the hand. To him it marked the end of a dream, the return to ...

— Molly McDonald - A Tale of the Old Frontier • Randall Parrish

... words she had heard that night as she sat at the window: his farewell to her; and it seemed to come home to her like a stroke of lightning, that in his despair he had rashly sought ...

— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn

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