farrand

See also: Farrand

English

Alternative forms

• farand, farant, farent, farrant, farren

Etymology

From Middle English farand, farende, farinde, from Old English farende (present participle of Old English faran (“to set forth, go, travel, wander, proceed”)), from Proto-Germanic *farandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *faraną (“to go, fare, travel”), equivalent to fare +‎ -and. More at fare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfæɹənd], [ˈfæɹənt]

Adjective

farrand

1. (obsolete, Scotland, Ireland, Northern England) Having a specified form or disposition; fashioned.
   • 1660, Dickson, Writings:

     A sore matter for a sinner to be corrected, and yet to go light-farrand under it.

   • 1756, William Hamilton, A New Edition of the Life and Heroick Actions of the renoun'd Sir William Wallace, etc.:

     Likely he was, right fair and well farrand, Manly and stout, […]

   • 1836, Richard Furness, Medicus-magus:

     My farand friends farewell ! so near my heart, / My dowsome cow, my good old mare, and cart !

   • 1893, K. Snowden, Tales of the Yorkshire Wolds:

     When, four years before, Ainsworth took land next his own and rebuilt the farmstead "on a new-farrand plan," he had felt a secret irk against him, […]

Derived terms

• old-farrand, old-farrant
• farantly

References

• Wright, Joseph (1900) The English Dialect Dictionary‎^[1], volume 2, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pages 301–302

Scots

Alternative forms

• farrant, farrent, farren, faurond, farn

Adjective

farrand

1. fashioned; conditioned
2. behaved; (as "well-farrand") well-behaved
3. (as "auld-farrand") wise; sagacious; well-informed