Noun: far
Sample Sentences
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A cataplasm made from any meal is heating, whether it be of wheat, or of far, or barley, or bitter vetch, ... [1756, Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, Medicine: In Eight Books, page 108:]
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Almost all the rustic writers agree in this, that far is most proper for wet clay land, and triticum for dry land. 'In wet red clays,' says Cato, 'sow far; and in dry, clean, and open lands, sow triticum.' [1857, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia:]
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Our wedding-cake is the memorial of a practice, that bore a striking resemblance to, if it was not derived from, confarreatio, the form of marriage that had fallen into general disuse amongst the Romans in the time of Tiberius. Taking its name from the cake of far and mola salsa that was broken over the bride's head, confarreatio was attended with an incident that increases its resemblance to the way in which our ancestors used at their weddings objects symbolical of natural plentifulness. [1872, John Cordy Jeaffreson, “Wedding-Cake”, in Brides and Bridals. […], volume I, London: Hurst and Blackett, […], →OCLC, pages 200–201:]
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The early Romans broke a cake of far and mola salsa (salted meal) over the bride's head, — a symbol of plentifulness, […] [1919, Carl Holliday, Wedding Customs Then and Now, page 32:]
Nouns inflected like far
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin far. Doublet of farro. See: Latin Nouns '
far'.