Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Faring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Fare \Fare\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fared}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Faring}.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., &
OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries.,
Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. ????? a way through,
??????? a ferry, strait, ???????? to convey, ?????????? to
go, march, ????? beyond, on the other side, ????? to pass
through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to
bring over. [root]78. Cf. {Chaffer}, {Emporium}, {Far},
{Ferry}, {Ford}, {Peril}, {Port} a harbor, {Pore}, n.]
1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.
--Milton.

2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good
or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of
events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or
ill.

So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
--Denham.

I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson
(More's
Utopia).

So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras.

3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or
social comforts; to live.

There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared
sumptuously every day. --Luke xvi.
19.

4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall
see how it will fare with him.

Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
--Milton.

5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]

She ferde [fared] as she would die. --Chaucer.


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