Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • . Well favored; comely; handsome; goodly.
  • . Having a certain specified favor or appearance; appearing; seeming: generally used in composition with a specific term, fair, foul, evil, ill, well (weel), old (auld), etc.: as, auld-farand, old-seeming: applied to a child who manifests more sagacity than could be expected at his time of life.
  • noun Manners; humor.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See farrand, n.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Fashioned; conditioned; seeming; having a specified disposition.
  • adjective Well-behaved; decent; becoming.
  • adjective Scotland Wise; sagacious; well-informed.
  • noun Manner; custom; fashion; disposition; humour.

Etymologies

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From Middle English farand, farende, farinde, from Old English farende, present participle of Old English faran ("to set forth, go, travel, wander, proceed"), equivalent to fare +‎ -and. More at fare.

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