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Farm

1. To lease or let for an equivalent, as land for a rent; to yield the use of to proceeds. We are enforced to farm our royal realm. (Shak)

2. To give up to another, as an estate, a business, the revenue, etc, on condition of receiving in return a percentage of what it yields; as, to farm the taxes. To farm their subjects and their duties toward these. (Burke)

3. To take at a certain rent or rate.

4. To devote (land) to agriculture; to cultivate, as land; to till, as a farm. To farm let, to let to farm, to lease on rent.

Origin: Farmed; farming.


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... how we got all the variations. But can you cross an iris with a rose? If not, what is their theory on this. The reason I ask is I grew up around farms in the midwest, and worked in a corn seed company for a while (quite interesting, we actually did the field work of self and cross-pollination). ...

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by AFJ
Wed Jul 01, 2009 12:25 am
 
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by futurezoologist
Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:46 am
 
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by AstusAleator
Wed Oct 22, 2008 5:42 pm
 
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by kateman
Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:08 am
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: genetic engineering of a plant
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by Persephone
Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:19 pm
 
Forum: Genetics
Topic: Genetic modification
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