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- English Word Land Definition 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.
- English Word Land Definition Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
- English Word Land Definition The inhabitants of a nation or people.
- English Word Land Definition The mainland, in distinction from islands.
- English Word Land Definition The ground or floor.
- English Word Land Definition The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
- English Word Land Definition Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real estate.
- English Word Land Definition The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
- English Word Land Definition In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves.
- English Word Land Definition To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
- English Word Land Definition To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
- English Word Land Definition 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.
- English Word Land Definition To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
- English Word Land-poor Definition Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
- English Word Landamman Definition A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
- English Word Landamman Definition The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
- English Word Landau Definition A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.
- English Word Landaulet Definition A small landau.
- English Word Landed Definition of Land
- English Word Landed Definition Having an estate in land.