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▪ I. † fard, faird, n.1 Sc. Obs.
Also 6 farde, 7 ferd.
[Prob. identical with ME. ferd:—OE. fyrd, fięrd, etymologically a verbal abstract f. faran fare v. to go, though recorded only in the sense expedition, army.]
Motion, rush, impetus. Hence, Impetuosity, ardour; a violent onset.
1513Douglas æneis vi. xi. 12 He persavis..comand throw gresy sward His derrast son Enee with hasty fard. 1536Bellenden Chron. Scot. x. viii. Ee ij a/1 King Feredech..ruschit with sic farde amang his ennymes, that he was excludit fra his awin folkis. 1563Winzet Four Scoir Thre Quest. §33 Margin. note, At this place..Iohne Knox maid a fel farde. 1639R. Baillie Let. 28 Sept. Lett. & Jrnls. (1775) I. 170 Well understanding that the ferd of our hot spirits could not long abide in edge. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. i. 85 None gained by those bloody fairds But two three Beggers who turn'd Lairds. 1714Ramsay Elegy J. Cowper 45 E'en tho' there was a drunken laird To draw his sword and make a faird In their defence.
▪ II. † fard, n.2 Obs. exc. arch.|fɑːd|
[a. Fr. fard (OF. fart masc., farde fem.); of obscure etymology; Diez refers it to OHG. gi-farwit coloured, painted (fem. givarida, glossed fucata), pa. pple. of farwjan to colour.]
Paint (esp. white paint) for the face.
1540Palsgr. tr. Acolastus i. i, A certain gay glosse or farde, such as women paynte them with. 1629Z. Boyd Last Battell II. 959 Fard and foolish vaine fashions of apparell are but Bawds of allurement to vncleannesse. 1766Smollett Trav. 160 Rouge and fard are more peculiarly necessary in this Country. 1791J. Whitaker Review of Gibbon 4 The skeleton of history, not merely..animated with life..but..rubbed with Spanish wool, painted with French fard. 1889F. Barrett Under Strange Mask II. x. 8 The enamels and fards employed to conceal the mark of Time's finger.
fig.1587Mirr. Mag., Locrinus xxvii, Though yee coloure all with coate of ryght No fayned fard deceaues or dimmes his sight. 1663Sir G. Mackenzie Religious Stoic viii. (1685) 75 The fard of Eloquence. 1839Thackeray Second Lect. Fine Arts, Why will he not stick to copying her majestical countenance instead of daubing it with some..fard of his own?
▪ III. † fard, v. Obs.|fɑːd|
Also 7 Sc. faird, feard.
[ad. F. fard-er, f. fard: see prec.]
1. trans. To paint (the face) with fard, to hide defects and improve the complexion.
a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 69 A lady..that folke said she popped and farded her. c1620Z. Boyd Zion's Flowers (1855) 69, I farded have my face with fard most rare. 1653A. Wilson Jas. I 56 That Beauty..so farded and sophisticated with some Court Drug.
absol.1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith in Sylvester's Du Bartas 738 He frisles and he fards, He oynts, he bathes.
2. transf. and fig. To embellish or gloss over (anything).
1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 16, I thocht it nocht necessair til hef fardit ande lardit this tracteit vitht exquiste termis. 1606W. Birnie Kird-Burial (1838) 11 Our funerals wherewith wi but feard death. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. ii. 31 The..inveagling trinkets, wherewith the Romish Whoore doth faird..her self. 1674Petty Disc. Dupl. Proportion A v, Euphonical Nonsence, farded with formality. 1816Scott Old Mort. xxi, Nor will my conscience permit me to fard or daub over the causes of divine wrath.
Hence † ˈfarded ppl. a. † ˈfarding vbl. n., the action of the vb. fard, the effect produced by this. † ˈfarding ppl. a.
1637Rutherford Lett. lxxxii. (1862) I. 208 This farded and overgilded world. a1651Calderwood Hist. Kirk (1678) 458 They..mask a feigned heart with the vail of fairded language. a1763Shenstone Economy ii. 140 The farded fop, and essenc'd beau. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde Prol. (1634) 6 Vtterly abhorring and defying all farding, painting, and counterfeit cast colours. 1681S. Colvil Whigs Supplic. (1751) 153 Like fairding on a face that's wrinkled. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. Ep. A iij, Her comely countenance is miscoloured with the farding lustre of the mother of Harlotes.
▪ IV. fard
obs. f. feared, afraid. |