farrand

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English

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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.

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Adjective

farrand

  1. (obsolete, Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Having a specified form or disposition; fashioned.
    • 1660, Dickson, Writings:
      A sore matter for a sinner to be corrected, and yet to go light-farrand under it.
    • 1756, William Hamilton, A New Edition of the Life and Heroick Actions of the renoun'd Sir William Wallace, etc.:
      Likely he was, right fair and well farrand, Manly and stout, […]
    • 1836, Richard Furness, Medicus-magus:
      My farand friends farewell ! so near my heart, / My dowsome cow, my good old mare, and cart !
    • 1893, K. Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds:
      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, […]

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Adjective

farrand

  1. fashioned; conditioned
  2. behaved; (as "well-farrand") well-behaved
  3. (as "auld-farrand") wise; sagacious; well-informed
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