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noun

Farce n.

(Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. "Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false."

Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state."

verb

Farce v. t. (past & past part. farced, pres. part. farcing)

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. (Obs.) "The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets." "His tippet was aye farsed full of knives."

To render fat. (Obs.) "If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs."

To swell out; to render pompous. (Obs.) "Farcing his letter with fustian."

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— The Yellow God - An Idol of Africa • H. Rider Haggard

... 7th.—The farce continued, and how to manage these haughty capricious blacks puzzled my brains considerably; but I felt that if I did not stand up now, no one would ever be treated better hereafter. I sent Nasib ...

— The Discovery of the Source of the Nile • John Hanning Speke

... no longer relegated to opprobrium, but put in some repair and made a place of fashionable entertainment; the versatile Englishmen turning their hands and their wits to almost anything in that line, from scene-painting to acting in comedy, farce, or tragedy. ...

— A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia • Amanda Minnie Douglas

... sent some of his principal nobles, who said the king was apprehensive of being shot during the conference. Cortes engaged by the most solemn oaths that no injury should be offered, but all to no purpose. At this time two of these nobles played a most ridiculous farce: They took out from a sack a fowl, some bread, and a quantity of cherries, which they began to eat deliberately, as if to impress us with the belief that they had abundance of provisions. When Cortes found that the proposed conference ...

— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. IV. • Robert Kerr

... nor friends, and are as different from the old class of American sailors as the condottiere from the loyal soldier. Let the navigation-laws be enforced first of all, and see that the due proportion of the crews of every ship be native-born. Let the custom-house protections be no longer the farce they are,—where a man who talks of "awlin haft the main tack" is set down as a native of Martha's Vineyard, and his messmate, who couldn't say "peas" without betraying County Cork, is permitted to hail from the interior of Pennsylvania. Let the ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 15, January, 1859 • Various

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