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farrand en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• [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.

Meanings

1. (Ireland, Northern-England, Scotland, obsolete) Having a specified form or disposition; fashioned.
   • 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:
   • A sore matter for a sinner to be corrected, and yet to go light-farrand under it. 1660, Dickson, Writings:
   • My farand friends farewell ! so near my heart, / My dowsome cow, my good old mare, and cart ! 1836, Richard Furness, Medicus-magus:
   • 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.:

Forms

Deriveds

old-farrand · farantly · old-farrant