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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.
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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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      ☞ 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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