[f. FARE v. + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. FARE; journeying, travelling; an instance of the same.
1594. Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits, i. (1596), 8. This faring, that a man takes from his owne countrie to make himselfe of woorth and discretion.
1633. P. Fletcher, Elisa, I. xxi. Through this troubled faring … I guiltlesse past.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. II. vi. His deplorable farings and voyagings draw to a close.
2. Condition or state; esp. a passing condition of body, dial.
1811. L. M. Hawkins, The Countess and Gertrude, II. xxix. 103. One woman asked another how her husband fared [did] and was answered, that he had strange farings [was ill without knowing the cause.]
1857. Wright, Dict. Obs. & Provinc. Eng. Fareings, feelings, symptoms. East.
1882. Whittier, Poems, An Autograph, xiii. 54.
| Age brought him no despairing | |
| Of the world’s future faring; | |
| In human nature still | |
| He found more good than ill. |
3. concr. Entertainment, fare; in pl. made dishes.
1655. Moufet & Bennet, Health’s Improv. (1746), 328. Broths, Pottage, Farings, Sauces.
1681. Colvil, Whigs Supplic. (1751), 125.
| And with its furious Teetch our Throats cut, | |
| Down which we watered Meal of Oats put; | |
| Which we prefer, with Loch-Broom Herring, | |
| To all the King of Babel’s faring. |
1803. Fessenden, Terrible Tractoration, III. (ed. 2), 122.
| Say that those wights of skill surprising | |
| In science of economising, | |
| Who cook up most delicious farings, | |
| From cheese rinds, and potatoe parings. |
b. To get one’s faring: see FAIRING sb. 1 c.
1846. L. S. Costello, Tour to & fr. Venice, 253. I am … glad to see how the old demon gets his faring.
