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Fare   /fɛr/   Listen
noun
Fare  n.  
1.
A journey; a passage. (Obs.) "That nought might stay his fare."
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."
4.
Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer. "What fare? what news abroad?"
5.
Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare. "Philosophic fare."
6.
The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
7.
The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.
Bill of fare. See under Bill.
Fare indicator or Fare 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.


verb
Fare  v. i.  (past & past part. fared; pres. part. faring)  
1.
To go; to pass; to journey; to travel. "So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden."
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." "I bid you most heartily well to fare." "So fared the knight between two foes."
3.
To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live. "There was a certain rich man which... fared sumptuously every day."
4.
To happen well, or ill; used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him. "So fares it when with truth falsehood contends."
5.
To behave; to conduct one's self. (Obs.) "She ferde (fared) as she would die."





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"Fare" Quotes from Famous Books



... me that you will not be unwilling to look into our doleful hermitage. Without more preface, you will gladden our cell by accompanying our old chums of the London, Darley and Allan Cunningham, to Enfield on Wednesday. You shall have hermit's fare, with talk as seraphical as the novelty of the divine life will permit, with an innocent retrospect to the world which we have left, when I will thank you for your hospitable offer at Chiswick, and with plain hermit reasons evince the necessity ...
— The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb (Vol. 6) - Letters 1821-1842 • Charles and Mary Lamb
... exceptions, are Americans, but one street is nearly given up to Chinamen's stores, and one of the wealthiest and most honourable merchants in the town is a Chinaman. There is an ice factory, and icecream is included in the daily bill of fare here, and iced water is supplied without limit, but lately the machinery has only worked in spasms, and the absence of ice is regarded as a local calamity, though the water supplied from the waterworks is both cool and pure. There are two good photographers and two booksellers. I don't ...
— The Hawaiian Archipelago • Isabella L. Bird
... he knew he was conducting the proprietor of the chateau, he repented having treated him so cavalierly the day before; he became obsequious, and endeavored to gain the good-will of his fare by showing himself as loquacious as he had before been cross and sulky. But Julien de Buxieres, too much occupied in observing the details of the country, or in ruminating over the impressions he had received during the morning, ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... two-and three-fold appreciation, during and especially since the war, in the cost both of the cotton stuffs which the working man needs even for his scanty apparel and of the foodstuffs which constitute his meagre fare, discontent grew steadily more acute, and wages, though more than once enhanced, did not always keep pace with that appreciation. If in circumstances, often of undoubted hardship, labour had been ...
— India, Old and New • Sir Valentine Chirol
... she observed, "you have come to luncheon, I suppose, because the fare at the Clergy House is so poor in Lent. Sit down, and give me an account of your doings last night. I trust that you saw Mrs. Wilson ...
— The Puritans • Arlo Bates


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