Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.]

         Out of her fleshy ferme fled to the place of pain.
                                                  --Spenser.