FARM

Definitions

1. 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. [Obs.]
2. 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. [Obs.] It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser.
3. 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.
4. 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.
5. 5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.
6. 6. A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials (1196).