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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Land \Land\ (l[a^]nd), noun Urine. See {Lant}. [Obs.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Land \Land\, noun [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.
They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land. --Dryden.
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.
Go view the land, even Jericho. --Josh. ii. 1.
Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith.
Note: In the expressions ''to be, or dwell, upon land,'' ''to go, or fare, on land,'' as used by Chaucer, land denotes the country as distinguished from the town.
A poor parson dwelling upon land [i.e., in the country]. --Chaucer.
3. Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
4. The inhabitants of a nation or people.
These answers, in the silent night received, The king himself divulged, the land believed. --Dryden.
5. The mainland, in distinction from islands.
6. The ground or floor. [Obs.]
Herself upon the land she did prostrate. --Spenser.
7. (Agric.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
8. (Law) 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. --Kent. Bouvier. Burrill.
9. (Naut.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also {landing}. --Knight.
10. 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.
{Land agent}, a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land.
{Land boat}, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.
{Land blink}, a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See {Ice blink}.
{Land breeze}. See under {Breeze}.
{Land chain}. See {Gunter's chain}.
{Land crab} (Zo["o]l.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water chiefly for the purpose of breeding. They are abundant in the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow to a large size.
{Land fish} a fish on land; a person quite out of place. --Shak.
{Land force}, a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.
{Land, ho!} (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of land.
{Land ice}, a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe.
{Land leech} (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.
{Land measure}, the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement.
{Land of bondage} or {House of bondage}, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression.
{Land o' cakes}, Scotland.
{Land of Nod}, sleep.
{Land of promise}, in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation.
{Land of steady habits}, a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut.
{Land office}, a government office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting the public lands is transacted. [U.S.]
{Land pike}. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The Menobranchus.
{Land service}, military service as distinguished from naval service.
{Land rail}. (Zo["o]l) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe. See {Crake}. (b) An Australian rail ({Hypot[ae]nidia Phillipensis}); -- called also {pectoral rail}.
{Land scrip}, a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.]
{Land shark}, a swindler of sailors on shore. [Sailors' Cant]
{Land side} (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island or ship, which is turned toward the land. (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard and which presses against the unplowed land.
{Land snail} (Zo["o]l.), any snail which lives on land, as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of warm countries are Di[oe]cia, and belong to the T[ae]nioglossa. See {Geophila}, and {Helix}.
{Land spout}, a descent of cloud and water in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land.
{Land steward}, a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc.
{Land tortoise}, {Land turtle} (Zo["o]l.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See {Tortoise}.
{Land warrant}, a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land. [U.S.]
{Land wind}. Same as {Land breeze} (above).
{To make land} (Naut.), to sight land.
{To set the land}, to see by the compass how the land bears from the ship.
{To shut in the land}, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Land \Land\, verb (used without an object)
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. [1913 Webster +PJC]
2. Specifically: To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.
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. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Land \Land\, verb (used with an object) [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.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak.
2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
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.
4. Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
land
adjective
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}]
noun
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}]
verb
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LAND, noun 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
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