Land

land, n. earth, the solid portion of the surface of the globe: a country: a district: soil: real estate: a nation or people: ( Scot. ) a group of dwellings or tenements under one roof and having a common entry.— v.t. to set on land or on shore.— v.i. to come on land or on shore.— ns. Land′-ā′gent , a person employed by the owner of an estate to let farms, collect rents, .; Land′-breeze , a breeze setting from the land towards the sea; Land′-crab , a family of crabs which live much or chiefly on land.— v.t. Land′damn ( Shak. ), to banish from the land.— adj. Land′ed , po e ing land or estates: consisting in land or real estate.— ns. Land′er , one who lands; Land′fall , a landslip: an approach to land after a voyage, also the land so approached; Land′-fish ( Shak. ), a fish on land, any one acting contrary to his usual character; Land′-flood , a flooding or overflowing of land by water: inundation; Land′force , a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force; Land′-grab′ber , one who acquires land by harsh and grasping means: one who is eager to occupy land from which others have been evicted; Land′-grab′bing , the act of the land-grabber; Land′-herd , a herd of animals which feed on land; Land′-hold′er , a holder or proprietor of land; Land′-hung′er , greed for the acquisition of land; Land′ing , act of going on land from a ve el: a place for getting on shore: the level part of a staircase between the flights of steps.— adj. relating to the unloading of a ve el's cargo.— ns. Land′ing-net , a kind of scoop-net for landing a fish that has been caught; Land′ing-place , a place for landing, as from a ve el; Land′ing-stage , a platform for landing pa engers or goods carried by water, often rising and falling with the tide; Land′-job′ber , a speculator in land; Land′-job′bing ; Land′lady , a woman who has property in land or houses: the mistre of an inn or lodging-house.— adj. Land′le ( Shak. ), without land or property.— v.t. Land′lock , to enclose by land.— - adj. Land′-locked , almost shut in by land, protected by surrounding ma es of land from the force of wind and waves.— ns. Land′lord , the owner of land or houses: the master of an inn or lodging-house; Land′lordism , the authority or united action of the landholding cla ; Land′-lubb′er , a landsman (a term used by sailors); Land′mark , anything serving to mark the boundaries of land: any object on land that serves as a guide to seamen: any distinguishing characteristic; Land′-me as′ure , a system of square measure used in the measurement of land; Land′-me as′uring , the art of estimating the superficial content of portions of land; Land′-own′er , one who owns land; Land′-own′ership .— adj. Land′-own′ing .— ns. Land′-pī′lot , ( Milt. ), a guide on land; Land′-pī′rate , a highway robber: a fellow who makes a practice of swindling sailors in port; Land′rail , the crake or corncrake, so named from its cry; Land′-rak′er ( Shak. ), a vagabond; Land′-reeve , the a istant to the land-steward of a great estate; Land′-roll , a clod-crusher; Land′-scrip ( U.S. ), negotiable government certificate entitling to po e ion of certain public land by individuals or corporate bodies; Land′-shark , a land-grabber: one who plunders sailors on shore; Land′skip (same as Landscape ); Land′slide , Land′slip , a portion of land that falls down, generally from the side of a hill, usually due to the undermining effect of water; Lands′man , Land′man , one who lives or serves on land: one inexperienced in seafaring; Land′-spring , water lying near the surface, easily drawn upon by shallow wells; Land′-stew′ard , a person who manages a landed estate; Land′-survey′ing (see Surveying ); Land′-tax , a tax upon land; Land′-turn , a land-breeze; Land′-wait′er , a custom-house officer who attends on the landing of goods from ships.— adv. Land′ward , toward the land.— adj. lying toward the land, away from the sea-coast: situated in or forming part of the country, as opposed to the town: rural.— n. Land′wind , a wind blowing off the land.— Land League , an a ociation founded in Ireland by Michael Davitt in 1879, and organised by C. S. Parnell, to procure reduction and rearrangement of rents, and to promote the substitution of peasant-proprietors for landlords—condemned as an illegal conspiracy in 1881; Landed interest , the combined interest of the land-holding cla in a community.— Make the land , to discover the land as the ship approaches it; Set the land , to observe by the compa how the shore bears from the ship. [A.S. land ; Dut., Ger. land .]