5. A district of country leased (or farmed) out for the collection of the revenues of government. The province was devided into twelve farms. Burke.
6. (O. Eng. Law)
Defn: A lease of the imposts on particular goods; as, the sugar farm,
the silk farm.
Whereas G. H. held the farm of sugars upon a rent of 10,000 marks per
annum. State Trials (1196).
FARM
Farm, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farmed; p. pr. & vb. n. Farming.]
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.
FARM
Farm, v. i.
Defn: To engage in the business of tilling the soil; to labor as a farmer.