FARE. FARINA. PHIL. -Where, past the noblest street The stranger now counts not the place so good, She called for music, Ford. The Broken Heart, act iv. sc. 4. But as a bark, that in foul weather, Butler. Hudibras, part i. can. 3. Yet, labouring well his little spot of ground, And bruis'd with vervain, were his frugal fare. Your answer yesterday from the Chancellor was about rejecting your Speaker by the King's prerogative. And will you sit down and give up your right for a compliment? if so, farewell chusing a Speaker for the future. Parliamentary History. Charles II. Anno 1678, 9. The hardy veteran, proud of many a scar, Tickell. On the Prospect of Peace. If joys hereafter must be purchas'd here Dryden. The Hind and the Panther. The question itself is, whether the peace now proposed, such as it 15, be better, or not, than a continuation of hostilities?-Whether, according to a familiar mode of speech, we may not go farther and fare worse. Windham. Speeches. Peace of Amiens, Nov. 4. 1801. Then farewell love, and farewell youthful fires! Jones. Solima. An Arabian Eclogue. There Harold gazes on a work divine, A blending of all beauties; streams and dells, Byron. Works, vol. i. p. 248. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. FA'RINA, Some fly with two wings, as birds and many insects, some with four, and all farinaceous or mealy-winged animals, as butter-flies, and moths. Sir Thomas Brown. Vulgar Errors, book iii. ch. xv. Mankind take as aliment all the parts of vegetables; but their properest food, of the vegetable kingdom, is taken from the farinaceous, or mealy seeds of some culmiferous plants, as oats, barley, wheat, &c. &c. Arbuthnot. On Aliments, ch. iii. prop. 4. This is divided into many cells which contain a great number of small seeds covered with a red farina. Granger. The Sugar Cune, book iv. 1. 534. (note.) FARM, v. FARM, n. FARMER, FARM. Fr. ferme; which Menage derives FARINA. from the Lat. firmus, q. d. un lieu ferme, un closerie; to a firm place, FARMERY, an enclosure: fermer, the verb, also FARMERSHIP, denoting to enclose, to fortify. And FARM-HOUSE, he rejects the opinion of Spelman, FARMHOLD. adopted by Skinner, that it is from the A. S. fearm-ian, feormian, victum præbere, to supply food; husbandmen or farmers (as they allege) not originally paying their landlord money, then very scarce, but food (victum) and other necessary articles. And see the Quotation from Blackstone, who adopts the opinion of Spelman and Skinner. By application, to farm, is To hire or take upon hire, land or taxes; to hold or take the same for certain rents or sums to be rendered, or other considerations required and performed; to let land or other property upon such conditions; to till or cultivate land. Vor wanne ený byssop, oper abbod deyde in Engelond, R. Gloucester, p. 414. He was the beste begger in al his hous: In every good towne there is a drunken tauerne, called a Eursemay, which the emperour sometime letteth out to farme, & sometimes bestoweth for a yeare or two on some duke or gentleman in recompense of his seruice. Hakluyt. Voyage, &c. vol. i. fol. 314. Mr. Anthony Jenkenson. As for example: farmes or granges which conteine chambers in them, more than fiftie cubits in length, tenne in breadth, and twentie in height. Id. Ib. fol. 577. The State of Iceland. God saue you good man, pray you be nat miscontented, for I toke for a farmour of myne in Essexe, for ye are lyke hym. you Lord Berners. Froissart. Cronycle, vol. ii. ch. 96. And whan the messagiers called vpon them, euery man made his excuse: one sayed, he must go se his mainour or farme-place, yt he Udall. Matthew, ch. xxii. lately bought. Geue eare thou proud rich man what euer thou bee, that heapest together possessions and landes vpon landes: that art in euery corner a builder of houses, of fermeholdes, of mainours, & of palacies. Id. Luke, ch. ii. These were the lucky first fruites that the Ghospel brought forth for his rent and fermership. Id. Acts, ch. ii. And for our coffers, with too great a Court, Shakspeare. Richard II. fol. 28. As when two greedy wolves doe break by force They spoil and ravine without all remorse : Cato would have this point especially to be considered, that the soil of a farme (situate as hath been said) be good of itselfe, and fertile : also, that neare unto it there be store of labourers: and that it be not farre from a good and strong towne; moreover, that it have sufficient meanes for transporting of the commodities which it yieldeth, either by vessels upon water or otherwise by waines upon the land. Holland. Plinie, vol. i. fol. 553. The moonke anon after went to the farmarie, & there died (his guts gushing out of his bellie) and had continuallie from henseforth three moonkes to sing masse for his soule, confirmed by their generall chapter. Fox. Martyrs, fol. 233. King John poysoned by a Monk, Id. Suetonius, fol. 58. Octavius Cæsar Augustus. But having reclaimed once againe that violent moode, he desired some more secret retyring place, wherein he might lurke awhile and recall his wits together. When Phaon his freed man made offer unto him of a farme-house of his, that he had by the citie side. Id. Ib. fol. 205. Nero Claudius Cæsar. Crofts, with several others in the kingdom, was appointed to raise money for the king, by farming out his lands there, and selling the wards and marriages of such as were in the king's homage, Strype. Memorials. Edward VI. Anno 1551. 1 from Lisbon 138 miles. North latitude 37°, West longitude 7° 50'. FAROE, FAROER, or FEROE, ISLANDS, a group in the Atlantic Ocean, about 190 miles to the NorthWest of the Shetland Isles, between 61° 20′ and 62° 25' of North latitude, and about 5° 50′ and 7° 35' of West longitude. They belong to Denmark, and are twenty-five in number, but of these eight are uninhabited. The principal are Stromoe, 143 square miles in extent, and containing 1560 inhabitants; Osteroe; Suderoe; Sandoe; Vaagoe; Nalsoe; and the six islands which compose the Parish of Norderoe. Their total population in 1812 was 5210. They consist generally of elevated rocks, rising abruptly from the sea, and separated from each other by narrow channels, the currents and whirlpools of which are very dangerous. Much of the coast scenery is exceedingly bold and The jury was not called out of the toun, for they would not trust it majestic, and is rendered still more interesting by to them; but out of the farms of the chapel. Burnet. History of the Reformation, Anno 1543. So Cymon led her home, and leaving there, Dryden. Cymon and Iphigenia. Of which number one was named Matthew, or Levi, who was before a publican, or one of the farmers of the publick revenues belonging to the crown in that place. Bishop Beveridge. Sermon 84. They have even voluntarily put their own territory, that is, a large and fine country adjacent to Madras, called their jaghire, wholly out of their protection; and have continued to farm their subjects, and their duties towards these subjects, to that very Nabob, whom they themselves constantly represent as an habitual oppressor, and a relentless tyrant. Burke. On Mr. Fox's East India Bill. Farm or feorme, is an old Saxon word signifying provisions; and it came to be used instead of rent or render, because antiently the greater part of rents were reserved in provisions; in corn, in poultry, and the like; till the use of money became more frequent. So that a farmer, firmarius, was one who held his lands upon payment of a rent or forme; though at present by a gradual departure from the original sense, the word farm is brought to signify the very estate or lands so held upon farm or rent. Blackstone, Commentaries, book ii. ch. xx. The farming out of the defence of a country being wholly unprecedented and evidently abused, could have no real object but to enrich the contractor at the Company's expense. Burke. Articles of Charge against Warren Hastings. From the mountain's misty ridge, Near the farm-house, forms a bridge. Cunningham. A Landscape. Would Messalina's character be more ingeniously drawn in the warmth of her glances, or by ransacking a farm-yard for every animal of a congenial constitution. p. 81. Walpole, Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. FARO, a fortified seaport Town of the South of Portugal in the Province of Algarve, a little to the North of Cape Santa Maria. It is seated in a fertile plain, near the mouth of the small river Valfermosa, and is tolerably built; is the See of a Bishop, suffragan of Evora; and contains 7000 inhabitants. The harbour is almost blocked up, but the roadstead has convenient anchorage. A good trade is carried on; wine, cork, fruits, &c. being exported; and packet-boats keep up a communication with Gibraltar. The harbour is defended by the fort San Lourenço de Olhao on the East of the river. Faro was plundered and burned by the English in 1590, and suffered very much from the earthquake of 1755. Distant South-East by South the variety of shapes into which the rocks have been worn by the action of the waves. Some of the heights in these Islands are very considerable; the most lofty of all is that called Skielinge Field, in the interior of Stromoe, which is stated to be 3000 feet above the sea. Ilatturtind, in Osteroe, is 2825, and there are several mountains in the same Island of nearly equal height. The shores, being very deeply broken into by the ocean, furnish several commodious harbours. In so northerly a position the climate, as may be supposed, is far from hospitable; a few stunted willows and birches, the only specimens of trees which the country affords, are sufficiently indicative of this fact; but at the same time it is moist, and necessarily less severe than that of continental countries lying in the same latitude. On these accounts such parts of the earth's surface as are not entirely rock, or covered with peat, may, notwithstanding the thinness of the soil, be brought under tillage. Barley and potatoes are principally cultivated; and the inadequacy of the produce to the wants of the inhabitants, is made up by supplies of grain from Denmark. There is good pasturage, and sheep constitute the main wealth of the islanders, who themselves manufacture the wool of these animals into articles of clothing. The chief employments are fishing and catching the sea-fowl that resort in vast numbers to the coasts. (See BIRDCATCHING.) Agate, jasper, and beautiful zeolites are found in these Islands; and on Stromoe coal has been obtained. The chief exports are salted mutton, tallow, quills, feathers, eider-down, and woollen articles. In their language and mode of life, the inhabitants very much resemble the natives of Iceland. The Faroe Islands contain a number of scattered villages, and one petty Town, Thorshavn, which is situated on the Eastern side of Stromoe, the principal member of the group. This Town, if it deserves such a name, is built on a tongue of land, having on each side anchorage for vessels by means of iron ranges fixed in the rocks. The inhabitants, about 600, subsist by fishing. Their houses are constructed with wood, and roofed with birch, bark, and turf, and are by no means regular in their disposition. R. Lucas Jacobrow Debes, (Provost of the Churches of the Feroe Islands,) Feroe Reserata, Copenhagen, 1673, translated into English by J. Sterpin, 1676; Lanat, Description of the Faroe Islands, Translated from the Danish, 1810; Sir G. Stewart Mackenzie, Account of some Geological Facts observed in the Faroe Islands. Trans. Soc. Edin. vii. 213. FARO. FAROE. FARRA GINOUS generally to one Sow They Yarrow commonly twice a yeare; they bee with pigge four FARROW Wish'd As for 4hht kind of dredgelon ferrage which commeth of the refuse For being a confusion of kraves and fools, and a farraginous con- los zot 9Warburton. The Divine Legation, book iv. sec. 4. 970 FA'RRIER, 2. Lat. ferreus faber, a worker in FA'R A shoer of horses; and also, to one who undertakes 970 1 01 091191201C 90 JOS ST as fries for her saddle (such cleane gold) 191627 Some of whom might, without disparagement to their profession, "And though might have children fast, 711 had arrow'd last. INTANA Seven species, natives of the South of Europe, Egypt, 9092 07 To move further; to advance, And ferthirover, for as mochie as the caitif body of man is rebel asen goth he farther & declareth wherfore he washed theyr feete, e said to Saint Peter, that he should know it afterward. Sir Thomas More. Workes, fol. 1317. A Treatice vpon the Passion. So in the church findeth he in way of spiritual instruction and Works, vol. ii. fol. 641. Answer to Lord Faulkland. Dryden. A Discourse on Epick Poetry. Waterland. Works, vol. iii, p. 178. A Second Defence of some My opinion is, that the printer should begin with the first Pastoral, Dryden. Works, vol. i. part ii. p. 63. Letter to Mr. Jacob Tonson. Walpole. Anecdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 198. Nay farther, if we consider all circumstances, it is to me a full proof the tranquillity FARTHER en certainly, rise, the first week in April at furthest, when his Majesty proposes going to Hanover, to of the north. FARI THIN GALE. 6. settle the fra joango de vnem o Chesterfield. Works, vol. iv. p. 113. book ii. let. 47. FARTHING,C. G. 1. 2. a fourth-ing or dividing into four or dividing into four parts. Tooke, 28. Any very small thing; as in not the FAR THIN 5. at once the pic ture of Queen Elizabeth very body knows at once. " GALE. Walpólė! Anécdotes of Painting, vol. i. p. 222. The FARDINGALE was an immense hooped petticoat, PASCES introduced by the ladies at the end of the XVIth cen Chaucer, "No ferthing of gresellest tury, in 'imitation of the trunk slops of the men. 2008 at 11 Tyrrwhitt. 191070 [c1uen garthing Passe Eche zer a thousand marc, & nout a varthing TO £70 912292 Dog R. Gloucester, p. 507, 1st Roberd, ne uon hise, s Pat salle ask Henty p be King pis dette on non wise, peny to ferping R. Brune pe 99 Joved sgow to dimor Peers can swefel 291999 a9792 Ich nolde fonge aferthing. for Seynt Thomas's shrynelt bur to : TяJI bas Piers Ploukman, Vision, p. 124. pidid Acferthing\worth of fynkel sede, for fastinge daies.яd bas galaw to send Id. Ib. Hire over lippe wiped she so clene, Леанія Т That in ons/bove cuppe was no ferthing sene she dronken hadde hire dre e draght; HTRA I 9300 Chaucer! The Prologue, v 134. Wherefore wyllinge to helpe to the furtherance of so godly an intente, and to brynge in, at the leaste, my farthinge, into the treasurye of the Lord, I have loked ouer againe my sayde translaamended the places that Udall, Workes, vol. ii. fol. 20. Epistle to Titus. Advertisement. Too popular is tragic poesie, Straining his tip-toes for a farthing fee, And doth beside on rymeless numbers tread, ond Hall. Satire 4. book i. Sept. 5. A proclamation went forth that the Butchers in London should sell beef, and mutton, and veal, the best for a penny farthing the pound, and hecks and legs at three farthings the pound, and the best lamb eight pence the quarter.. Strype. Memorials. King Edward VI. Anno 1552. The money I received from the king was for bringing a libel, called "The King unveiled, and the Lady Portsmouth's articles." I call God to witness, I never had a farthing charity from the State Trials. Charles II. Anno 1681. king. The Anglo-Saxon Feonovnz (a fourth part of a penny) was of silver. The Farthing of gold mentioned 9 Henry V. 7, was the fourth part of a noble, The precise measure of a Farthing of Land is not ascertained; but, by an entry in a Survey Book of the Manor of West Stapton in Com. Devon, which estimates six Farthings of land at £126. per annum, it must be considerably larger than a Farding-deal or Farundel, which is only the fourth part of an acre. FARTHINGALE, or Fr. vertugalle, vertFARDINGALE. gadin; It. vertugalla; Sp. vertugado. Menage, and Minshew, a vertendo. The latter gives as a reason, quod circum lumbos in gyrum vertatur. She passed not vpon daintie fare, not costly raiment, nether coulde away with Romish Frechhodes (otherwise called myters) nor with foistie farthingales coarded ouer the alter.* Stephen, Bishop of Winchester. Of True Obedience, sig. K 1. PHAN. By my faith, that spoils all the former, for these far thingales take up all the room now-a-days, borgogy 1,un, I zem zgjon. 1989 ja 29 1. Brewer, Lingua, act iii. sc. 6. B. MAK. I have such a treacherous heart of my own, 'twil throb At the very fall of a farthingale. Flowers fascicled, fragrant just after sunset and before sunrise, when they are fresh with evening and morning dew; beautifully diversified with tints of orange-scarlet, of pale yellow, or of bright orange, which grows deeper every day, and forms a variety of shades according to the age of each blossom, that opens in the fascicle. Sir William Jones, Botanical Observations on Select Indian Plants, vol. v. p. 113. nod 26" 19815. – buoni, sunt d Livy (i. 8) mentions the appointment of Lictors by Romulus, and it is probable that these officers bore the FASCES, which, together, with themselves, were of Tuscan origin. Dionysius Halicarnassensis, (iii. 84,) Strabo, (v.,) and Florus, (i. 5,) attribute their introduction to Tarquinus Priscus after his conquest of Hetruria, from which country he transferred to Rome, as evidence of his victòries, all the emblems of magisterial power. The rods which composed them were made of elm or ignoble birch, (betulla terribilis magistratuum virgis, Plin. xvi. 18,) bound round an axe, the head of which was prominent at their extremity. This envelopment of the axe, as we learn from Plutarch, (in Problem.,) was symbolical of the caution which ought to attend the administration of judicial punishment. Each of the twelve Lictors bore one of them on his shoulder. The Fasces carried before an Imperator in his triumph were wreathed with laurel, (Plin. xv. 40 ;) a passage which Hardouin, in his note on the one before cited from the same author, appears to have misinterpreted, by supposing that laurel rods were then substituted for those commonly in use. After the expulsion of the Roman Kings, the Fasces were retained in attendance upon all the Curule Magistrates, in' different numbers, according to their respective grades of dignity. The phrase Fasces submittere, to which allusion is made in some of the above Citations, arose from an act of the first Consul Valerius, who, not having appointed a colleague with himself after the death of Brutus, was unjustly suspected of aiming at the sole angerent Consulis animum, vocato ad Consilium Populo, monarchy. Hæc dicta vulgo creditaque quum indignitate submissis Fascibus in concionem escendit. Gratum id multitudini spectaculum fuit: submissa sibi esse Imperii signa, confessionemque factam Populi quam Consulis majestatem vimque majorem esse, (Liv. ii. 7.) In what manner the Fasces were thus submitted, namely, by reversal, as the arms of modern soldiers in military mourning, is clearly explained by Plutarch (Publicola) avràs Te Tàs ῥάβδους εἰς ἐκκλησίαν παριὼν ὑφηκε τῷ δήμῳ καὶ κατέκλινε. 1 Which yet to prevent or restore, was of equal facility unto that FASrising power, able to break the fasciations and bands of death, to get CIATED. clear out of the cere cloth, and an hundred pounds of oyntment, and out of the sepulchre before the stone was rolled from it. FASCINA Sir Thomas Brown. Urn Burial, ch. i. TION. And even diadems themselves were but fasciations, and handsome ligatures, about the heads of princes. Id. Cyrus Garden, ch. ii. FASCINATE. FA'SCINATE," Fr. fasciner; It. fascinare; Lat. FASCINATION, fascinare; from paer Kaiv-e, FASCINA'CIOUS. Joculis, sive aspectu occidere; and, in confirmation of this etymology, Vossius quotes Pliny, "Isogonus addeth, that such like these are among the Triballians and Illyrians, who with their very eiesight can witch (effascinent) yea and kill those whom they looke wistly upon any long time." Holland, Plin. i. 155. Cotgrave calls it, To eye-bite. To charm, enchant or bewitch, by the eyes, the looks; generally, to charm or enchant; to hold or keep in thraldom by charms, by powers of pleasing. They may judge this severing from such temptations and fascinating vanities, to be a state of real infranchisement, and esteem the other giddy agitation of their persons up and down the world, floating upon their fancies, but as a prisoner's dream. Mountague. Devoute Essayes, Treat. 19. so. 5. All such as will not be impudent strangers to the discernig spirit of that king who first cherished him, cannot but impute it to a certain innate wisdom and vertue that was in him, [the Duke of Buckingham, with which he surprised, and even fascinated all the faculties of his incomparable master. Reliquiae Woltonianæ, p. 193. Buckingham and Esser. We see the opinion of fascination is ancient, for both effects; of procuring love; and sickness caused by envie: and fascination is ever by the eye. Bacon. Natural History, Cent. x. But when his tender strength in time shalt rise To dare ill tongues, and fascinating eyes; This Isle, which hides the little Thunderer's fame, Shall be too narrow to contain his name. Dryden. Britannia Rediviva. The ancients imagined that spitting in their bosoms three times, (which was a sacred number) would prevent fascination. Fawkes. The Idyllium of Theocritus, note on id. 6. Couper. The Task, book vi. A belief in FASCINATION appears to have been very generally prevalent in most Ages and Countries. For its existence in Greece and Rome we might quote, in common with many who have preceded us on the subject, the wish of Theocritus, (vii. 126,) that an old woman might be with him to avert this ill by spitting, (eripovacoisa,) or the complaint of Menalcas, in Virgil, (Ecl. iii. 102,) that some Evil Eye has Fascinated his lambs. The Romans, indeed, with their usual passion for increasing the host of heaven, deified this Power of Ill, and enrolled a God Fascinus among their objects of worship. Although he was a Numen piumides, the celebration of his rites was intrusted, by a singular incongruity, to the care of the Vestal Virgins. His phallic attribute, medicus invidiæ similis medicina linguæ, was suspended round the necks of children and from the triumphal chariots, (Plin. xxvii. 4 ;) and upon the caput inhonestum of a symbol of larger size, the Brides of Mutina were seated immediately after the nuptial ceremony, in the not unreasonable hope of increasing their fecundity. In what manner this image was modified into forms less repugnant to decency, may be observed in a plate given by Thomas Bartholinus, in his Veteris Puerperii Synopsis; and its transition into the fica of the Italians, (which has wandered from the original tutelary meaning, and adhered only to that which is obscene,) and the higa of the Spaniards, (still retained as an amulet,) may be learned from Mr. Douce, Ill. of Shakspeare, i. 492. Reginald Scot, in his Discovery of Witchcraft, has referred to many ancient authorities on this superstition, and has traced, with delightful solemnity, the Physical causes from which the fatal effect of Fascination by the with Virgil and Theocritus in the effect of bewitching eyes, Eyes may be supposed to arise. "Many writers agree affirming that in Scythia there are women called Bithia having two bals or rather blacks in the apple of their eyes. And, as Didymus reporteth, some have in the one eye two such bals, and in the other the image of a horse. These (forsooth) with their angry looks do bewitch and hurt not only young Lambs but young Children. There be other that retain such venom in their eyes, and send it forth by beams and streams so violently, that therewith they annoy not only them with whom they are conversant continually, but also all other whose company they frequent, of what age, strength, or complexion soever they be, as Cicero, Plutarch, Philarchus, and many others give out in their writings. This Fascination (saith John Baptista Porta Neapolitanus) though it begin by touching or breathing, is always accomplished and finished by the eye, as an extermination or expulsion of the spirits through the eyes, approaching to the heart of the bewitched, and infecting the same, &c. .... Old women . . . . . show also some proof hereof. For (as the said I.B.P.N. reporteth, alledging Aristotle for his Author) they leave in a looking glass a certain froth, by means of the gross vapours proceeding out of their eyes, which cometh so to pass, because those vapours or spirits which so abundantly come from their eyes cannot pierce or enter into the glass which is hard and without pores, and therefore resisteth: but the beams which are carryed in the chariot or conveyance of the spirits from the eyes of one body to another, do pierce to the inward parts and there breed whilst they search and seek for their proper region. And as these beams and vapours do proceed from the heart of the one, so are they turned into blood above the heart of the other, which blood disagreeing with the nature of the bewitched party, enfeebleth the rest of his body, and maketh him sick; the contagion whereof so long continueth as the distempered blood hath force in the members. And be |