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  1. 1. v. t. To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To render fat. Source: opted
  3. 3. v. t. To swell out; to render pompous. Source: opted
  4. 4. v. t. Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat. Source: opted
  5. 5. v. t. 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. Source: opted
  6. 6. v. t. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. Source: opted
  7. 7. n. a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations Source: wordnet
  8. 8. n. mixture of ground raw chicken and mushrooms with pistachios and truffles and onions and parsley and lots of butter and bound with eggs Source: wordnet
  9. 9. v. fill with a stuffing while cooking Source: wordnet
  10. 10. 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. 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. Source: webster
  11. 11. Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing afowl; forcemeat. Source: adambom
  12. 12. n:100 n. a comedy characterized by broad satire and improbable situations v. fill with a stuffing while cooking Source: ecdict

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