FARM

vt to take at a certain rent or rate.

2. farm ·vi to engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.

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

4. farm ·adj & ·noun the term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold.

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

6. farm ·adj & ·noun the rent of land, — originally paid by reservation of part of its products.

7. farm ·adj & ·noun a lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm.

8. farm ·adj & ·noun the land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation.

9. farm ·adj & ·noun a district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government.

10. farm ·adj & ·noun any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner.

11. 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.