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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farm \Farm\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Farmed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farm \Farm\, noun [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See {Firm}, adjective & 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. --Spenser.
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. --Burrill.
5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke.
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. --State Trials (1196).
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Farm \Farm\, verb (used without an object) To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
farm
noun: workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm"
verb
1: be a farmer; work as a farmer; "My son is farming in California"
2: collect fees or profits
3: cultivate by growing, often involving improvements by means of agricultural techniques; "The Bordeaux region produces great red wines"; "They produce good ham in Parma"; "We grow wheat here"; "We raise hogs here" [syn: {grow}, {raise}, {produce}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
150 Moby Thesaurus words for "farm": Arcadian, Dymaxion house, White House, acreage, adobe house, agrarian, agrestic, agricultural, agronomic, allotment, arable, arable land, barnyard, barton, be killed, breed, bucolic, building, casa, cattle ranch, charter, chicken farm, cliff dwelling, collective farm, consulate, contract, cotton plantation, countrify, country, country house, country seat, croft, crop, cultivate, culture, dacha, dairy farm, deanery, delegate, demesne, demesne farm, die, dry farm, dryfarm, dude ranch, dwelling house, edifice, embassy, erection, fabric, factory farm, fallow, farm out, farmery, farmhold, farmhouse, farming, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, fatten, feed, fruit farm, fur farm, garden, geoponic, grain farm, grange, grassland, grow, hacienda, hall, hatch, hire, hire out, holding, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, house, houseboat, job, keep, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lake dwelling, land, lease, lease out, lease-back, lease-lend, lend-lease, let, let off, let out, living machine, location, lodge, lowland, mains, manor farm, manor house, manse, nurture, orchard, parsonage, pastoral, pastoralize, pasture, pen, penthouse, plantation, poultry farm, prefabricated house, presidential palace, provincial, raise, ranch, ranch house, rancheria, rancho, rear, rectory, rent, rent out, roof, run, rural, rustic, rusticate, sharecrop, sheep farm, skyscraper, sod house, split-level, station, steading, stock farm, structure, subcontract, sublease, sublet, till the soil, toft, town house, truck farm, underlet, upland, vicarage
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
farm {processor farm}
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Farm (Matt. 22:5). Every Hebrew had a certain portion of land assigned to him as a possession (Num. 26:33-56). In Egypt the lands all belonged to the king, and the husbandmen were obliged to give him a fifth part of the produce; so in Palestine Jehovah was the sole possessor of the soil, and the people held it by direct tenure from him. By the enactment of Moses, the Hebrews paid a tithe of the produce to Jehovah, which was assigned to the priesthood. Military service when required was also to be rendered by every Hebrew at his own expense. The occuptaion of a husbandman was held in high honour (1 Sam. 11:5-7; 1 Kings 19:19; 2 Chr. 26:10). (See LAND LAWS ¯(n/a); {TITHE}.)
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