Fare /(fâr)/

imp. & p. p. Fared; p. pr. & vb. n. Faring

1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.

   So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.

2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.

   So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.

   I bid you most heartily well to fare.

   So fared the knight between two foes.

3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.

   There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day.

4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.

   So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.

5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]

   She ferde [fared] as she would die.

1. A journey; a passage. [Obs.]

   That nought might stay his fare.

2. The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway.
3. Ado; bustle; business. [Obs.]

   The warder chid and made fare.

4. Condition or state of things; fortune; hap; cheer.

   What fare? what news abroad ?

5. Food; provisions for the table; entertainment; as, coarse fare; delicious fare.
6. The person or persons conveyed in a vehicle; as, a full fare of passengers.
7. The catch of fish on a fishing vessel.