| farcilite | <chemical> Pudding stone. Origin: Farce+-lite. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| farcin | <veterinary> Same as Farcy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| farctate | <botany> Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; opposed to tubular or hollow. Origin: L. Farctus, p.p. Of farcire. See Farce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| farcy | <veterinary> A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, especially. Upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen. Farcy, although more common in horses, is communicable to other animals and to human beings. Farcy bud, a hard, prominent swelling occurrinng upon the cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration. Origin: F. Farcin; cf. L. Farciminum a disease of horses, fr. Farcire. See Farce. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fardel | The total measurable penalty that is incurred as a result of the occurrence of a genetic disease in one individual; one of two major quantitative considerations in the prognostic aspects of genetic counseling, the other being risk of occurrence. The fardel roughly measures the duration and the severity of the penalty, i.e., the integral of the total time-intensity function; e.g., colour blindness has a low intensity of penalty throughout life, anencephaly causes intense distress for a brief time, Alzheimer's disease is intermediate in both respects but the fardel is greater. Origin: M.E., fr. O. Fr., fr. Ar. Fardah, bundle (05 Mar 2000) |
| farding-bag | The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen. Origin: Of uncertain origin; cf. Fardel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| fare | 1. A journey; a passage. "That nought might stay his fare." (Spenser) 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. "The warder chid and made fare." (Chaucer) 4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. "What fare? what news abroad ?" (Shak) 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 Bill. Fare indicator or register, a device for recording the number of passengers on a street car, etc. Fare wicket. A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges, exhibition grounds, etc, for registering the number of persons passing it. An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing tickets of the driver or passing fares to the conductor. Origin: AS. Faru journey, fr. Faran. See Fare, v. 1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. "So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden." (Milton) 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." (Denham) "I bid you most heartily well to fare." (Robynson (More's Utopia)) "So fared the knight between two foes." (Hudibras) 3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. "There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . Fared sumptuously every day." (Luke xvi. 19) 4. To happen well, or ill; used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. "Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends." (Milton) 5. To behave; to conduct one's self. "She ferde [fared] as she would die." (Chaucer) Origin: AS. Faran to travel, fare; akin to OS, Goth, & OHG. Faran to travel, go, D. Varen, G. Fahren, OFries, Isel, & Sw. Fara, Dan. Fare, Gr. A way through, a ferry, strait, to convey, to go, march, beyond, on the other side, to pass through, L. Peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. Par to bring over. Cf Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| farewell | Parting; valedictory; final; as, a farewell discourse; his farewell bow. "Leans in his spear to take his farewell view. <chemical> " (Tickell) Farewell rock, 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. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| farfara | The dried leaves of Tussilago farfara (family Compositae); a demulcent. Origin: L. Farfarus, coltsfoot (05 Mar 2000) |
| farina | 1. A fine flour or meal made from cereal grains or from the starch or fecula of vegetables, extracted by various processes, and used in cookery. 2. <botany> Pollen. Origin: L, meal, flour, fr. Far a sort of grain, spelt; akin to E. Barley. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| farina avenae | Oatmeal flour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| farina tritici | Wheat flour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| farinaceous | <botany> Containing starch grains, mealy, resembling flour. (09 Oct 1997) |
| farinose | 1. Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances. 2. <botany> Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy. Origin: L. Farinosus: cf. F. Farineux. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| farm | 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." (Shak) 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." (Burke) 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. Origin: Farmed; Farming. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |