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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

... on the farm in southern Illinois he had known the hour the instant his eyes opened. Here the flat next door was so close that the bed-room was in twilight even at midday. On the farm he could tell by the feeling—an ...

— One Basket • Edna Ferber

... special occasions to keep us to our manners, and to make us sure that we know how it is becoming to behave; but you know well, Roger, that she is not strict with us generally, and likes us to enjoy ourselves. When we are staying up at the farm with Aunt Peggy, she lets us run about as we will; and never interferes with us, save when our spirits carry us away altogether. I think we should be glad if we always ...

— By Right of Conquest - Or, With Cortez in Mexico • G. A. Henty

... spots can make themselves, in their mixture of thrift and prodigality, they are dearer than ever at the points where they register family traits, and so touch the humanity of us all. Here is imprinted the story of the man who owns the farm, that of the father who inherited it, and the grandfather who reclaimed it from waste; here have they and their womenkind set the foot of daily living and traced indelible paths. They have left ...

— Tiverton Tales • Alice Brown

... pounds, and this gave her a sense of helpfulness she had not known at Epworth; a pound saved may be a pound gained, but a pound earned can be held in the hand, and the touch makes a wonderful difference. The girls had flung themselves heartily into the farm-work: they talked of it, at night, around the kitchen hearth (for of the two sitting-rooms one had been given up to their father for his library, and the other Hetty vowed to be "too grand for the likes of dairy-women." Also the marsh-vapours in the Isle of Axholme can be agueish ...

— Hetty Wesley • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... often afford them shelter; some solitary farm-house on the borders of a lake, or near a deep morass, took the name of their monastery; some cranogue in the lake, or dry spot in the thick of the morass, which they could reach by paths known to themselves only, was their asylum in times of extraordinary danger. In ordinary times, the farm-house, ...

— Irish Race in the Past and the Present • Aug. J. Thebaud

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