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A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials . (more info) 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part

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A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm, the silk farm. Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per annum. State Trials . (more info) 1. The rent of land, -- originally paid by reservation of part of its products. 2. The term or tenure of a lease of land for cultivation; a leasehold. It is great willfulness in landlords to make any longer farms to their tenants. Spenser. 3. The land held under lease and by payment of rent for the purpose of cultivation. 4. Any tract of land devoted to agricultural purposes, under the management of a tenant or the owner. Note: In English the ideas of a lease, a term, and a rent, continue to be in a great degree inseparable, even from the popular meaning of a farm, as they are entirely so from the legal sense. Burrill. 5. A district of country leased out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.

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  • SUGARPLUM
    A kind of candy or sweetneat made up in small balls or disks.
  • STATESMANLIKE
    Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
  • STATEHOOD
    The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
  • ANNUMERATE
    To add on; to count in. Wollaston.
  • LEASE
    To gather what harvesters have left behind; to glean. Dryden.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • SUGARED
    Sweetened. "The sugared liquor." Spenser.
  • SUGARY
    1. Resembling or containing sugar; tasting of sugar; sweet. Spenser. 2. Fond of sugar or sweet things; as, a sugary palate.
  • MARKSMAN
    One who makes his mark, instead of writing his name, in signing documents. Burrill. (more info) 1. One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
  • STATECRAFT
    The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.
  • PARTICULARITY
    1. The state or quality of being particular; distinctiveness; circumstantiality; minuteness in detail. 2. That which is particular; as: Peculiar quality; individual characteristic; peculiarity. "An old heathen altar with this particularity."
  • PARTICULARLY
    1. In a particular manner; expressly; with a specific reference or interest; in particular; distinctly. 2. In an especial manner; in a high degree; as, a particularly fortunate man; a particularly bad failure. The exact propriety of Virgil
  • SUGARLESS
    Without sugar; free from sugar.
  • STATESWOMAN
    A woman concerned in public affairs. A rare stateswoman; I admire her bearing. B. Jonson.
  • STATESMANLY
    Becoming a statesman.
  • STATESMAN
    1. A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities. The minds of some of our statesmen, like the pupil of the human eye, contract themselves the more, the stronger light
  • LEASEHOLD
    Held by lease.
  • PARTICULARISM
    The doctrine of particular election. (more info) 1. A minute description; a detailed statement.
  • STATEDLY
    At stated times; regularly.
  • GOODSHIP
    Favor; grace. Gower.
  • CREBRICOSTATE
    Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
  • SAGEBRUSH STATE
    Nevada; -- a nickname.
  • OLD LINE STATE
    Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
  • ENSTATE
    See INSTATE
  • RELEASE
    To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
  • ABORIGINALLY
    Primarily.
  • KATASTATE
    A substance formed by a katabolic process; -- opposed to anastate. See Katabolic.
  • BAYOU STATE
    Mississippi; -- a nickname, from its numerous bayous.
  • REESTATE
    To reëstablish. Walis.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • ARISTATE
    Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned. Gray.
  • BICOSTATE
    Having two principal ribs running longitudinally, as a leaf.
  • TRIPLICOSTATE
    Three-ribbed.
  • DEHONESTATE
    To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
  • DEVASTATE
    To lay waste; to ravage; to desolate. Whole countries . . . were devastated. Macaulay. Syn. -- To waste; ravage; desolate; destroy; demolish; plunder; pillage.
  • APOSTATE
    One who, after having received sacred orders, renounces his clerical profession. (more info) 1. One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a

 

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