Definitions for the word "farm" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. a. & n.
The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. a. & n.
The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. a. & n.
The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. a. & n.
Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. a. & n.
A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. a. & n.
A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. v. t.
To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. v. t.
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.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. v. t.
To take at a certain rent or rate.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. v. t.
To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. v. i.
To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. n.
1 land and its buildings under one management for growing crops, rearing animals, etc. 2 such land etc. For a specified purpose (trout-farm). 3 = *farmhouse. v. 1 a use (land) for growing crops, rearing animals, etc. B be a farmer; work on a farm. 2 breed (fish etc.) Commercially. 3 (often foll. By out) delegate or subcontract (work) to others. farming n. [french ferme from latin firma fixed payment]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. slang
to contract, after the manner of those who engage to feed and
lodge children belonging to the parish, at so much a head; a fruitful
cause of starvation and misery. _See Oliver Twist._ The baby farmings,
unconnected with the parishes in which they occurred, which ultimately
resulted in the trial and execution of Margaret Waters, on the 11th
October, 1870, have caused the word FARM as applied to any dealings with
children, parish or private, to be one of obloquy and reproach.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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