Hypertext Webster Gateway: "fare"

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.

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

Fare \Fare\, n. [AS. faru journey, fr. faran. See {Fare}, v.]
1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.]

That nought might stay his fare. --Spenser.

2. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for
conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for
crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.

3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.]

The warder chid and made fare. --Chaucer.

4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.

What fare? what news abroad ? --Shak.

5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse
fare; delicious fare. ``Philosophic fare.'' --Dryden.

6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full
fare of passengers. --A. Drummond.

7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.

{Bill of fare}. See under {Bill}.

{Fare} {indicator or register}, a device for recording the
number of passengers on a street car, etc.

{Fare wicket}.
(a) A gate or turnstile at the entrance of toll bridges,
exhibition grounds, etc., for registering the number
of persons passing it.
(b) An opening in the door of a street car for purchasing
tickets of the driver or passing fares to the
conductor. --Knight.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

fare
n 1: an agenda of things to do; "they worked rapidly down the
menu of reports" [syn: {menu}]
2: the sum charged for riding in a public conveyance
3: a paying (taxi) passenger
4: the food and drink that are regularly consumed
v 1: proceed or get along; "How is she doing in her new job?"
"How are you making out in graduate school?" "He's come
a long way" [syn: {do}, {make out}, {come}, {get along}]
2: eat well


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