LANCEOLATE

(Lat. lance a, a lance.) In Zoology, an animal or a part is so called when it is oblong and gradually tapering towards each extremity. LAND (Germ.), in its widest acceptation is used to denote the solid matter of which the globe is composed, in contradistinction to the liquid matter, or water; but in its most restricted signification it is confined to arable ground. The latter is the legal meaning of the term; and in this sense it is used in all original writs, and in all correct and formal pleadings. LANDAMMAN, in Switzerland, the president of the diet of the Helvetic republic. The highest magistrate in ten of the cantons also bears the title of landamman; in the others he is designated by various appellations. [s. 654]