Obs. exc. dial. (in form fashion). Forms: 5 farseyn, 6–7 farcion, -yon, fashion, 6 farcine, -yn, 7–8 farcin. Also in pl. 6 fassones, 6–8 fashions. [a. Fr. farcin:—L. farcīminum: see prec.] = FARCY 1.
a. 1425. Bk. Hunting, xiii. (MS. Bodl. 546 fol. 52 b). Fleyng manyew … comeþ moste comuneliche a boute þe houndes ers and yn hure legges þan yn any oþer places as þe farsyn.
1523. Fitzherbert, The Boke of Husbandry, § 93. The farcyon is an yll soraunce, and maye well be cured in the begynnynge.
1568. Turner, Herball, III. 17. The farcye or fassones.
a. 1592. Greene & Lodge, Looking Glass, Dram. Wks. (1831), I. 67. If a horse have outward diseases as the spavin … or fashion we let him blood.
1610. Markham, Masterp., II. cxi. 392. The farcy (of our ignorant Smiths called the Fashions) is of all outward sorrances the vilest, the most poysonous, infectious, and the most dangerous.
1686. Lond. Gaz., No. 2158/4. A black brown Colt … very full of Knots, like the Fashions.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. The Farcin in Horses is the same as the Small-pox is in Men.
attrib. 1667. Lond. Gaz., No. 211, 4. A fine light Bay Stonehorse … having some Fashion spots upon him.
b. A farcy-bud.
1453. Paston Lett., No. 188, I. 255. Hese hors hath j. farseyn and grete rennyng sorys.
1607. Markham, Cavelarice, II. 22. Foule Farcions and other cankerous sores breede in the horses face.
