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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farm \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.] 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 Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farm \Farm\, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Farm \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. 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 WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: farm adj : found on a farm; "farm animals"; "a farm hand" [syn: {farm(a)}] n : farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; "it takes several people to work the farm" v 1: be a farmer; work as a farmer 2: collect fees or profits 3: cultivate by growing; often involves 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 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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