The Collaborative International Dictionary
Farlie \Far"lie\, n. [OE. ferlish wonder, as adj., strange,
sudden, fearful, AS. f[=ae]rl[=i]c sudden. See Fear.]
An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder. See Fearly. [Obs.
or Prov. Eng.]
--Drayton.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete UK dialect English) An unusual or unexpected thing; a wonder.
Usage examples of "farlie".
But you could actually put a farlie anywhere, if you got together enough liquid nitrogen and terabytes of storage and kept them in a cool dry place out of direct sunlight.
On 13 May 2999, all but one of those farlies jump-started itself and went out to destroy the nearest Farlie Center.
That did cut their numbers down considerably, since most of them only had ten or twenty farlies tucked away, but it also reduced drastically the number of police, not to mention the number of people willing to take up policing as a profession, since once somebody killed you twice, you had to stay dead.