farrand
adj[ˈfæɹənd] · [ˈfæɹənt]
Etymology From Middle English farand, farende, farinde, from Old English farende (present participle of Old English faran (“to set forth, go, travel, wander, proceed”)), from Proto-Germanic *farandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, fare, travel”), equivalent to fare + -and. More at fare.
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Ireland, Northern England, Scotland, Obsolete Having a specified form or disposition; fashioned.
- A sore matter for a sinner to be corrected, and yet to go light-farrand under it.1660, Dickson, Writings:
- Likely he was, right fair and well farrand, Manly and stout, […]1756, William Hamilton, A New Edition of the Life and Heroick Actions of the renoun'd Sir William Wallace, etc.:
2 more examples
- My farand friends farewell ! so near my heart, / My dowsome cow, my good old mare, and cart !1836, Richard Furness, Medicus-magus:
- When, four years before, Ainsworth took land next his own and rebuilt the farmstead "on a new-farrand plan," he had felt a secret irk against him, […]1893, K. Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds:
- Derived terms
- old-farrand, old-farrant, farantly