Obs. [Latin] A coarse kind of wheat; spelt.
c. 1420. Palladius, On Husbondrie, XII. 1.
| Novembre wol with whete & far be sowe | |
| In lawful wise and with solempnitee. |
1601. Holland, Pliny, II. 138. As for the bearded wheat Far, there is a certaine worme breeding in it like to a moth or the grub that eateth wood.
1624. Middleton, Game at Chess, V. iii.
| Cockles from Chios, frank’d and fatted vp | |
| With Far and Sapa, Flower and cockted Wine. |
