Ferm \Ferm\, Ferme \Ferme\, n.[See Farm.]
   Rent for a farm; a farm; also, an abode; a place of
   residence; as, he let his land to ferm. [Obs.]
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         Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain.
                                                  --Spenser.
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	FERM or FEARM. By this ancient word is meant land, fundus; (q.v.) and, it 
is said, houses and tenements may pass by it. Co. Litt. 5 a.