Citations:far

adjective

 * 1678, John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress:
 * Now, he had not run far from his own door, but his wife and children, perceiving it, began to cry after him to return; but the man put his fingers in his ears, and ran on, crying, Life! life! eternal life! [Luke 14:26] So he looked not behind him, but fled towards the middle of the plain. [Gen. 19:17]
 * They said, That to go to the gate for entrance was, by all their countrymen, counted too far about; and that, therefore, their usual way was to make a short cut of it, and to climb over the wall, as they had done.
 * How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread those steps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once; yea, now also I am like to be benighted, for the day is almost spent.
 * 1843, Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol:
 * "It is required of every man," the Ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellowmen, and travel far and wide; and if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
 * For, the people who were shovelling away on the housetops were jovial and full of glee; calling out to one another from the parapets, and now and then exchanging a facetious snowball — better-natured missile far than many a wordy jest — laughing heartily if it went right and not less heartily if it went wrong.
 * They were not a handsome family; they were not well dressed; their shoes were far from being water-proof; their clothes were scanty; and Peter might have known, and very likely did, the inside of a pawnbroker's.

noun: wheat

 * mentiony
 * 1849, John Marius Wilson, The Rural Cyclopedia: or a General Dictionary of Agriculture, volume 4, page 676:
 * The Meagre-Eared Cereal Wheats—These are wheats with small, thin, slender, or otherwise comparatively inconsiderable ears, of medium character between the ears of the bulky cereal wheats and the ears of the mere wheat-grasses; and they comprise, among other kinds, the species called zea or far, Bengal wheat, starch wheat, and one-grained wheat. The zea or far, Triticum zea, is the spelt wheat, or Triticum spelta, of Host and some other continental writers; and it is popularly supposed, though we think quite erroneously, to be the grain termed zea by the Greeks and far by the Romans.