Land \Land\ (l[a^]nd), n.
Urine. See Lant. [Obs.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Land \Land\, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw.,
Dan., and Goth. land. ]
1. The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to
water as constituting a part of such surface, especially
to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.
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They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land.
--Dryden.
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2. Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth,
considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or
a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.
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Go view the land, even Jericho. --Josh. ii. 1.
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Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith.
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Land \Land\, v. i.
1. To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a
destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in
trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los
Angeles.
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2. Specifically: To go on shore from a ship or boat; to
disembark.
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3. Specifically: To reach and come to rest on land after
having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower
bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane
landed in Washington.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Land \Land\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Landed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Landing.]
1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft;
to disembark; to debark.
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I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak.
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2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a
fish.
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3. To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or
reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the
quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed
in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.
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4. Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from
the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
land
adj 1: relating to or characteristic of or occurring on land; "land
vehicles" [syn: land(a)] [ant: sea(a), air(a)]
2: operating or living or growing on land [syn: terrestrial,
land(a)] [ant: amphibious, aquatic]
n 1: the land on which real estate is located; "he built the
house on land leased from the city"
2: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in
which plants can grow (especially with reference to its
quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good
agricultural soil" [syn: ground, soil]
3: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned
away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth
shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the
ground" [syn: dry land, earth, ground, solid ground,
terra firma]
4: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his
domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the
land" [syn: domain, demesne]
5: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land
of his birth"; "he visited several European countries"
[syn: country, state]
6: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled
kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of
the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: kingdom, realm]
7: extensive landed property (especially in the country)
retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a
large estate on Long Island" [syn: estate, landed
estate, acres, demesne]
8: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement
that sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced
to the nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: nation,
country, a people]
9: a politically organized body of people under a single
government; "the state has elected a new president";
"African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's
capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an
industrialized land" [syn: state, nation, country, commonwealth,
res publica, body politic]
10: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into
lenses and invented the one-step photographic process
(1909-1991) [syn: Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land]
11: working the land as an occupation or way of life; "farming
is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land any
more" [syn: farming]
v 1: reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest
branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" [syn: set down]
2: cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the
airplane safely" [syn: put down, bring down]
3: bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
[syn: bring]
4: bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the
beach of the island"
5: deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's
head"
6: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn: set
ashore, shore]
7: shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several
of our aircraft" [syn: down, shoot down]
WordNet (r) 2.0
204 Moby Thesaurus words for "land":
acquire, acreage, acres, airspace, alight, ally, archduchy,
archdukedom, area, arrive, bag, belt, berth, body politic,
buffer state, captive nation, capture, catch, chattels real,
chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, climb down, colony,
come down, come in, come to land, commonweal, commonwealth,
confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, crash-land,
debark, debus, demesne, department, deplane, descend, detrain,
dirt, disembark, disemplane, dismount, district, ditch, division,
dock, domain, dominion, downwind, drop anchor, dry land, duchy,
dukedom, earldom, earth, empery, empire, enmesh, ensnare, entangle,
entrap, environs, estate, fatherland, foul, free city, get,
get down, get off, go ashore, grand duchy, ground, grounds,
harpoon, heartland, hinterland, homeland, honor, hook, kingdom,
landed property, lands, lasso, level off, light, loam, lot, lots,
make a landfall, make land, make port, mandant, mandate,
mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, manor, mesh, messuage,
milieu, moor, motherland, mould, nail, nation, nationality,
native land, neighborhood, net, noose, obtain, offshore rights,
overshoot, pancake, parcel, part, parts, perch, place, plat, plot,
polis, polity, possession, power, praedium, precincts, premises,
principality, principate, property, protectorate, province,
puppet government, puppet regime, purlieus, put in, put into port,
quadrat, quarter, reach land, real estate, real property, realm,
realty, region, republic, roost, rope, sack, salient, satellite,
section, secure, seneschalty, set down, settle, settle down,
settle on, settle upon, settlement, sit, snag, snare, sniggle, sod,
soil, solid ground, sovereign nation, space, spear, state,
sultanate, superpower, take, take captive, talk down, tangle,
tangle up with, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory,
three-mile limit, tie up, toft, toparchia, toparchy, touch down,
trap, turf, twelve-mile limit, unboat, unhorse, upwind, vicinage,
vicinity, win, zone
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
LAND. This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows,
pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze and heath. It has an indefinite
extent upwards as well as downwards; therefore land, legally includes all
houses and other buildings standing or built on it; and whatever is in a
direct line between the surface and the centre of the earth, such as mines
of metals and fossils. 1 Inst. 4 a; Wood's Inst. 120; 2 B1. Com. 18; 1
Cruise on Real Prop. 58. In a more confined sense, the word land is said to
denote "frank tenement at the least." Shep. To. 92. In this sense, then,
leaseholds cannot be said to be included under the word lands. 8 Madd. Rep.
635. The technical sense of the word land is farther explained by Sheppard,
in his Touch. p. 88, thus: "if one be seised of some lands in fee, and
possessed of other lands for years, all in one parish, and he grant all his
lands in that parish (without naming them) in fee simple or for life; by
this grant shall pass no, more but the lands he hath in fee simple." It is
also said that land in its legal acceptation means arable land. 11 Co. 55 a.
See also Cro. Car. 293; 2 P. Wms. 458, n.; 5 Ves. 476; 20 Vin. Ab. 203.
2. Land, as above observed, includes in general all the buildings
erected upon it; 9 Day, R. 374; but to this general rule there are some
exceptions. It is true, that if a stranger voluntarily erect buildings on
another's land, they will belong to the owner of the land, and will become a
part of it; 16 Mass. R. 449; yet cases are, not wanting where it has been
decided that such an erection, under peculiar circumstances, would be
considered as personal property. 4 Mass. R. 514; 8 Pick. R. 283, 402; 5
Pick, R. 487; 6 N. H. Rep. 555; 2 Fairf. R. 371; 1 Dana, R. 591; 1 Burr.
144.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The
theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control
is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the
superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some
have the right to prevent others from living; for the right to own
implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass
are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that
if the whole area of _terra firma_ is owned by A, B and C, there will
be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to
exist.
A life on the ocean wave,
A home on the rolling deep,
For the spark the nature gave
I have there the right to keep.
They give me the cat-o'-nine
Whenever I go ashore.
Then ho! for the flashing brine --
I'm a natural commodore!
Dodle
THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
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