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Faring

Fare \Fare\ (f[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth., & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries., Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. ????? a way through, ??????? a ferry, strait, ???????? to convey, ?????????? to go, march, ????? beyond, on the other side, ????? to pass through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to bring over. [root]78. Cf. Chaffer, Emporium, Far, Ferry, Ford, Peril, Port a harbor, Pore, n.]

  1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

    So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.
    --Milton.

  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.
    --Denham.

    I bid you most heartily well to fare.
    --Robynson (More's Utopia).

    So fared the knight between two foes.
    --Hudibras.

  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.
    --Luke xvi. 19.

  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.
    --Milton.

  5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]

    She ferde [fared] as she would die.
    --Chaucer.

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faring

n. An adventure, trek, journey. vb. (present participle of fare English)

Usage examples of "faring".

In those days she told him of her farings since that night of April when she escaped out of Krothering: how first she found harbourage at By in Westmark, but hearing in a day or two of a hue and cry fled east again, and sojourning awhile beside Throwater came at length about a month ago upon this cave beside the little fountain, and here abode.

His farings, and a certain innate friendliness and openmindedness, had brought him together with numerous nonhumans.