Farm

·vt To take at a certain rent or rate.

II. Farm ·vi To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

III. Farm ·vt To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm.

IV. Farm ·adj & ·noun The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

V. Farm ·vt To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds.

VI. Farm ·adj & ·noun The rent of land, — originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

VII. Farm ·adj & ·noun A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

VIII. Farm ·adj & ·noun The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

IX. Farm ·adj & ·noun A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

X. Farm ·adj & ·noun Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

XI. Farm ·vt 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.