See Also: fare(medicine)
FARE(law)
fare-you-well(dictionary)
fare(4)(dictionary)
fare(3)(dictionary)
fare(2)(dictionary)
fare(1)(dictionary)
Normal fare(tourism)
Joint fare(tourism)
Fare basis(tourism)

fare(4) (iou)



fare verb.
[Old English faran = Old Frisian, Old Norse fara, Old Saxon, Old High German, Gothic faran (Dutch varen, German fahren), from Germanic from Indo-European.]
I.
verb intrans. Journey, travel, make one's way. Foll. by forth: depart, set out. Now arch. & literary. OE.
M. Arnold Through the deep noontide heats we fare. J. W. Johnson One puts on one's best clothes and fares forth.
verb intrans. Go, move, advance, proceed; flow, run. OE-M19.
Spenser One knocked at the dore, and in would fare.
verb trans. Bear, carry, convey. rare. ME.
II.
verb intrans. Get on in a specified manner (well, ill, etc.); have luck or treatment of a specified (good, bad, etc.) kind. OE.
fare thee well, fare you well imper. = FAREWELL interjection.
P. Kavanagh He did not care for his sisters, and was not worried how they fared in life.
b. Be entertained, be fed or feed oneself in a specified manner (well etc.). arch. LME.
E. K. Kane Our breakfast, for all fare alike, is hard tack.
verb intrans. impers. in it fares, it fared, etc.: it happens, it happened, etc.; it turns out, it turned out, etc. ME.
Swift Beware..that it fare not with you as with your predecessor.
verb intrans. Act, behave, conduct oneself; deal with, do by. ME-L17.
verb intrans.
a. Seem or act as though, as if. LME-M17.
b. Seem likely or incline to do, to be. arch. M19.
farer noun a traveller (chiefly as 2nd elem. of comb., as
seafarer,
wayfarer, etc.) LME.