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<p><b>4.</b> <def>Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.</def>

<note>&hand; 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 <i>farm</i>, as they are entirely so from the legal sense.</note>

<i>Burrill.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.</def>

<blockquote>The province was devided into twelve <b>farms</b>. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld> <def>A lease of the imposts on particular goods; <as>as, the sugar <ex>farm</ex>, the silk <ex>farm</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>Whereas G. H. held the <b>farm</b> of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. <i>State Trials (1196).</i></blockquote>

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<hw>Farm</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Farmed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Farming</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.</def>

<blockquote>We are enforced to <b>farm</b> our royal realm. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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>as, to <ex>farm</ex> the taxes</as>.</def>

<blockquote>To <b>farm</b> their subjects and their duties toward these. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To take at a certain rent or rate.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.</def>

<cs><mcol><col>To farm let</col>, <col>To let to farm</col></mcol>, <cd>to lease on rent.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Farm</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.</def>

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<hw>Farm"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being farmed.</def>

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<hw>Farm"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fermier</ets>.]</ety> <def>One who farms</def>; as: <sd>(a)</sd> <def>One who hires and cultivates a farm; a cultivator of leased ground; a tenant</def>. <i>Smart</i>. <sd>(b)</sd> <def>One who is devoted to the tillage of the soil; one who cultivates a farm; an agriculturist; a husbandman</def>. <sd>(c)</sd> <def>One who takes taxes, customs, excise, or other duties, to collect, either paying a fixed annuual rent for the privilege; <as>as, a <ex>farmer</ex> of the revenues</as></def>. <sd>(d)</sd> <fld>(Mining)</fld> <def>The lord of the field, or one who farms the lot and cope of the crown.</def>

<cs><col>Farmer-general</col> <ety>[F. <ets>fermier-general</ets>]</ety>, <cd>one to whom the right of levying certain taxes, in a particular district, was <i>farmed out</i>, under the former French monarchy, for a given sum paid down.</cd> -- <col>Farmers' satin</col>, <cd>a light material of cotton and worsted, used for coat linings.</cd> <i>McElrath</i>. -- <col>The king's farmer</col> <fld>(O. Eng. Law)</fld>, <cd>one to whom the collection of a royal revenue was farmed out.</cd></cs>

<i>Burrill.</i>

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<hw>Farm"er*ess</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A woman who farms.</def>

<h1>Farmership</h1> <Xpage=543>

<hw>Farm"er*ship</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Skill in farming.</def>

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