Definitions for: Farce


[n] a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations
[n] mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs



Webster (1913) Definition: Farce, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Farced, p. pr. & vb. n.
Farcing.] [F. Farcir, L. farcire; akin to Gr. ???????? to
fence in, stop up. Cf. Force to stuff, Diaphragm,
Frequent, Farcy, Farse.]
1. 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. --Bp.
Sanderson.

His tippet was aye farsed full of knives. --Chaucer.

2. To render fat. [Obs.]

If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs. --B. Jonson.

3. To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.]

Farcing his letter with fustian. --Sandys.


Farce, n. [F. farce, from L. farsus (also sometimes
farctus), p. p. pf farcire. See Farce, v. t.]
1. (Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used
on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

2. 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. --Dryden.

3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. ``The farce of
state.'' --Pope.

Synonyms: farce comedy, forcemeat, travesty

See Also: comedy, dressing, stuffing

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