| farce | (n) a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations, Syn. farce comedy, travesty | | farce | (v) fill with a stuffing while cooking, Syn. stuff, Example: Have you stuffed the turkey yet? | | farcical | (adj) broadly or extravagantly humorous; resembling farce, Syn. ridiculous, ludicrous, Example: the wild farcical exuberance of a clown; ludicrous green hair | | farcically | (adv) in a farcical manner, Example: a farcically inept bungler |
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| Farce | n. [ F. farce, from L. farsus (also sometimes farctus), p. p. pf farcire. See Farce, v. t. ] 1. (Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. [ 1913 Webster ] Farce is that in poetry which “grotesque” is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. “The farce of state.” Pope. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farce | v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Farced p. pr. & vb. n. Farcing ] [ F. Farcir, L. farcire; akin to Gr. &unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to fence in, stop up. Cf. Force to stuff, Diaphragm, Frequent, Farcy, Farse. ] 1. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Bp. Sanderson. [ 1913 Webster ] His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. To render fat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. B. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. To swell out; to render pompous. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farcement | n. Stuffing; forcemeat. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farcical | a. Pertaining to farce; appropriated to farce; ludicrous; unnatural; unreal. [ 1913 Webster ] They deny the characters to be farcical, because they are &unr_;&unr_;tually in in nature. Gay. -- Far"ci*cal*ly, adv. -Far"ci*cal*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farcical | a. Of or pertaining to the disease called farcy. See Farcy, n. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farcilite | n. [ Farce+-lite. ] (Min.) Pudding stone. [ Obs. ] Kirwan. | | Farcin | { } n. (Far.) Same as Farcy. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Farcimen | | Farcing | n. (Cookery) Stuffing; forcemeat. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farctate | a. [ L. farctus, p. p. of farcire. See Farce, v. t. ] (Bot.) Stuffed; filled solid; as, a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp; -- opposed to tubular or hollow. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] | | Farcy | n. [ F. farcin; cf. L. farciminum a disease of horses, fr. farcire. See Farce. ] (Far.) A contagious disease of horses, associated with painful ulcerating enlargements, esp. upon the head and limbs. It is of the same nature as glanders, and is often fatal. Called also farcin, and farcimen. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Farcy, although more common in horses, is communicable to other animals and to human beings. [ 1913 Webster ]
Farcy bud, a hard, prominent swelling occurring upon the cutaneous surface in farcy, due to the obstruction and inflammation of the lymphatic vessels, and followed by ulceration. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]
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