Fare v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fared p. pr. & vb. n. Faring.]
1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
So on he fares, and to the border comes
Of Eden. --Milton.
2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or ill.
So fares the stag among the enraged hounds. --Denham.
I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson (More's Utopia).
So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras.
3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or social comforts; to live.
There was a certain rich man which . . . fared sumptuously every day. --Luke xvi. 19.
4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall see how it will fare with him.
So fares it when with truth falsehood contends. --Milton.
5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]
She ferde [fared] as she would die. --Chaucer.