Found 2 items, similar to Farm.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: farm farm n : workplace consisting of farm buildings and cultivated land as a unit; “it takes several people to work the farm” farm v 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]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Farm 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. [1913 Webster] We are enforced to farm our royal realm. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 3. To take at a certain rent or rate. [1913 Webster] 4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. [1913 Webster] To farm let, To let to farm, to lease on rent. [1913 Webster] 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.] [1913 Webster] 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. --Spenser. [1913 Webster] 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. [1913 Webster] 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. [1913 Webster] The province was devided into twelve farms. --Burke. [1913 Webster] 6. (O. Eng. Law) A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. [1913 Webster] Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. --State Trials (1196). [1913 Webster] Farm \Farm\, v. i. To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer. [1913 Webster]