land salamanders

pl. Zool.: The genus Salamandra (q. v.). land-scurvy, s. Pathol.: Scurvy occurring not among seamen in ships but among people on shore, as the inmates of workhouses, and armies insufficiently fed; thus it greatly ravaged the English and French armies in the Crime an war. It is identically the same disease as the scurvy occurring in ships. [SCURVY.] *land-service, s. Service on land; spec if., naval service on shore. "Besides, the prince is all for the land -service." Byron: Don Juan, i. 4.