Ferm

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  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.