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Farm (?), n. [OE. ferme rent, lease, F. ferme, LL. firma, fr. L. firmus firm, fast, firmare to make firm or fast. See Firm, a. & n.] 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.]
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2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.]
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It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser.
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3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
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4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
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&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 farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. Burrill.
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5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
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The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.
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6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
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Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials (1196).
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Farm (?), v. t. [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.
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We are enforced to farm our royal realm. Shak.
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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.
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To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. Burke.
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3. To take at a certain rent or rate.
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4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
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To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent.
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Farm, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
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