vbl. sb. [f. FARCE v.1 + -ING1.]
1. The action of the vb. FARCE, in various senses; an instance of this.
c. 1540. Surr. Northampton Priory, in Prance, Addit. Narr. Pop. Plot, 36. Continual ingurgitations and farcyngs of our carayne Bodies.
1611. Florio, Farsata, a farcing or stuffing of meat.
fig. 1602. Carew, Cornwall, 75 b. It ministred some stuffe to the farcing of that fable.
2. concr. Stuffing, forcemeat.
1532. More, Confut. Tindale, Wks. 614/2. Neuer was there puddyng stuffed so full of farsynge.
1568. Hist. Iacob & Esau, IV. v., in Hazl., Dodsley, II. 236.
| I have brought here good herbs, and of them plenty, | |
| To make both broth and farcing, and that full dainty. |
1677. Compleat Servant-Maid, 106–7. Roast it and then take out the farsing and put it in a dish, then add to it the Gravy of the Goose.
3. attrib.
1615. Markham, The English House-wife (1660), 68. A bunch of the best farcing herbs tyed up together.
1648. Herrick, Hesper., I. 235.
| As in our Clothes, so likewise he who lookes, | |
| Shall find much farcing Buckram in our Books. |
