▪ I. faring, vbl. n.
(ˈfɛərɪŋ)
[f. fare v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fare; journeying, travelling; an instance of the same.
| 1594 Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits i. (1596) 8 This faring, that a man takes from his owne Country. 1633 P. Fletcher Elisa i. xxi, Through this troubled faring..I guiltlesse past. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. iii. ii. vi, His deplorable farings and voyagings draw to a close. |
2. Condition or state; esp. a passing condition of body. dial.
| 1811 L. M. Hawkins C'tess & Gertr. II. 103 One woman asked another how her husband fared..and was answered, that he had strange farings. 1857 Wright Dict. Obs. & Provinc. Eng., Fareings, feelings, symptoms. East. 1882 Whittier Poems, An Autograph xiii. 54 Age brings me no despairing Of the world's future faring. |
3. concr. Entertainment, fare; in pl. made dishes.
| 1655 Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 328 Broths, Pottage, Farings, Sauces. 1681 S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 125 Watered meal of oats..we prefer..To all the king of Babel's faring. 1803 C. Caustic Terrible Tractoration iii. (ed. 2) 122 Who cook up most delicious farings From cheese rinds. |
b. to get one's faring: see fairing n. 1 c.
| 1846 L. S. Costello Tour to & fr. Venice 253, I am..glad to see how the old demon gets his faring. |
▪ II. † ˈfaring, ppl. a. Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That has a specified condition or state; (well-, better-, best-) conditioned. (Cf. farrand.)
| c 1386 Chaucer Frankl. T. 204 Oon of the beste farynge man on lyue. c 1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4119 He is..a wel faring king. 1470–85 Malory Arthur viii. x, She thouȝt she sawe neuer..a better farynge knyght. 1557 K. Arthur (Copland) vi. i, He hadde neuer seen..so wel faryng a man. |