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Land
LAND, n.
1. Earth, or the solid matter which constitutes the fixed part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the sea or other waters, which constitute the fluid or movable part. Hence we say, the globe is terraqueous, consisting of land and water. The seaman in a long voyage longs to see land.
2. Any portion of the solid, superficial part of the globe, whether a kingdom or country, or a particular region. The United States is denominated the land of freedom.
Go, view the land, even Jericho. Josh 2.
3. Any small portion of the superficial part of the earth or ground. We speak of the quantity of land in a manor. Five hundred acres of land is a large farm.
4. Ground; soil, or the superficial part of the earth in respect to its nature or quality; as good land; poor land; moist or dry land.
5. Real Estate. A traitor forfeits all his lands and tenements.
6. The inhabitants of a country or region; a nation or people.
These answers in the silent night received, the king himself divulged, the land believed.
7. The ground left unplowed between furrows, is by some of our farmers called a land.
To make the land,
To make land, In seaman's language, is to discover land from sea, as the ship approaches it.
To shut in the land, to lose sight of the land left, by the intervention of a point or promontory.
To set the land, to see by the compass how it bears from the ship.
LAND, n. Urine; whence the old expression, land dam, to kill. Obs.
LAND, v.t. to set on shore; to disembark; to debark; as, to land troops from a ship or boat; to land goods.
LAND, v.i. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark.
land appears in definitions for these words:
A Abeyance Abide Abut Abutment Abuttal Access Acephalous Acknowledgment Acre Acred Action Adjacency Admortization Advocate Afforestation Aga Agistment Agrarian Aker Aland Alder Alien Alienable Alienate All Allodium Alluvial Alluvium Alms Amortization Amortizement Amphibial Anglic Annexation Antecessor Appanage Appear Appendance Appoint Approvement Appulse Appurtenance Appurtenant Apt Aquitanian Arable Armament Arpent Arrentation Arrival Arrive Arriving Arsenal Ashore Assart Assets Assizes Attachment Attainder Atteration Auctioneer Austral Avenage Averpenny Balk Banking Bar Bargain Baron Baronage Barren Barton Batable Batful Batten Battle Bay Beacon Bear Beat Beauty Before Believe Belly-pinched Bench Benefice Besides Best Better Between Bight Birds-eye Blencher Blow Board Bockland Bog Bog-ore Boghouse Bold Bord-land Border Borderer Borough Boscage Bottom Bound Bovate Breeze Broomland Bulrush Burgage But Butter-burr Butts By Camaieu Camayeu Camel Cameo Canton Cape Capite Carucate Castellany Cease Census Cessavit Cessor Chain Chalk Champerty Chancellor Chantry Chaplain Charge Chart Charter Charter-land Chattel Chersonese Chess Chief Chivalry Church-land Clay-land Clean Clear Clearing Climate Clover Coast Cognizance Cognizee Commander Commemoration Commission Commission-merchant Commodity Common Commonable Commons Commonty Commonweal Compass Composition Compost Concord Concubinage Condemn Confine Consist Contenement Continent Continual Convertibility Convey Conveyance Convoy Coppice Copyholder Corn-crake Cornage Cornland Corruption Cosinage Cotland Cottager Couch Couchant Countenance Country Courtesy Covenous Cover Cranberry Creaght Credit Crocodile Cross Crusade Cry Cultivate Cultivation Cultivator Daker-hen Danegelt Dark Darkness Daughter Deal Debark Debarked Debarking Decline Declivity Deep Definite Deforcement Degradation Delight Deluge Demain Demand Demise Denizen Depart Depredation Derelict Derivable Descent Descry Desert Designate Desire Despite Destroy Detriment Devise Devisor Die Dike Dine Direct Disbark Discommon Discourage Discover Disembark Disembarked Disembarking Dispauper Dispossess Disseizin Distribute District Ditch Diversify Diversiified Divide Domain Domesday-book Donee Doomsday-book Dot Dower Down Drag Dragon Drain Dressing Drown Dry Dungfork Duty Earing Earth Easel Easement Eat Eddish Eel Effectually Efficacy Eject Ejectment Ejector Elegit Embay Embayed Emblement Emphyteutic Empire Encroach Endow Engagement Enhance Enjoy Enlarge Enough Enrich Entail Entailing Enter Entrance Entry Equal Equality Equity Escheat Escort Escorted Escorting Escrow Espy Estate Estimate Estovers Estrepement Europe Even-tide Everlasting Evict Eviction Excellence Exception Execution Exhaust Exist Expectance Expensive Expilation Explore Export Extend Extent Exterraneous Extirpation Extralimitary Fail Fairy Fall Fallow Fallowing Fallowist Famine Famously Fare Farm Farming Farthing Fatten Favorable Fealty Feasible Feature Fee Feed Felony Fen Fence Feodary Feoffer Fertile Fertility Fertilize Fethered Feud Feudalism Feudary Feudatory Field Fill Fine Firm Fish Flat Float Flood Fly Fog Fogbank Folding Folkland For Forcible Fore Foreland Forest Forfeit Forfeitable Forfeiture Formedon Frankalmoigne Frankchase Frankfee Freehold Frog Fruitfulness Furrowweed Gag Gain Gainage Garden Gavelet Gavelkind Geest Georama Georgic Get Glebe Go Good Goose Gore Gouty Governor Grant Grantor Gravelly Grease Grievous Gross Ground Ground-plot Gulf Half Harrow Haven Haw Headland Heart Hearten Heathy Heavy Heir Hereditament Heriot Heritable Hid Hide Highland Highlandish Hill Hippopotamus Hold Holder Holm Holy Homage Homager Host Hotchpot How Hug Hundreder Husbandman Husbandry Hydage Iceberg Ieland Ill-natured Impeach Impeachable Impend Impoverish Impropriator Improvable Improve Improved Improvement Improver In Incameration Inclose Incloser Inclosure Increase Indraught Infertility Inherit Inland Innings Inquest Intemperance Internal Interval Intrude Inundate Inure Invest Investiture Irrigate Irrigation Island Isle Issue Isthmus Jack Jam Jointure Journey Jubilee Jurisdiction Jut Ken Knight Knight-service Labor Lamprey Lanch Land Landau Landed Landfall Landflood Landgrave Landgraviate Landholder Landing-place Landjobber Landlady Landless Landlock Landlocked Landloper Landlord Landman Landmark Landscape Landslip Landstreight Landward Languish Lava Lawful Lay Layland Lease Leased Leather-seller Lee Levy Lien Light-house Limb Lime Livery Living Locate Location Locomotive Lodge Loom Lordship Lose Lot Lote Love Low Lowland Lug Madden Main Main-land Make Malt-dust Manner Manor Manure Manurer Manuring Map Marque Marsh Meadow Measure Mediately Mediterrane Mend Mesne Messuage Meter Middle Military Mingle Modus Mollusca Money Moneyage Moor Moorland More Mortgage Mortmain Most Mother Mount Mountain Movables Mowing Mown Musketoe Nakedness Near Nearness Neck Neckland New Non-residence Non-resident Novel Nudity Nuisance Nusance Obtain Occupancy Occupant Occupation Occupy Offer Old Omy Orchard Ouster Out Overstock Own Oxgang Paint Palmer Paramount Parcenary Parcener Pare Paring Part Pass Passage Pasturage Pasture Paten Peat Peel Penguin Peninsula Pepper-corn Permistion Personal Perspective Petit Pickle Piece Pipe Piracy Plaice Plan Plantation Pleasure Pledge Plot Plow-land Plower Poach Poachiness Poachy Point Politic Political Poor Poorness Population Portage Possession Possessor Post Post-disseizin Post-disseizor Post-fine Power Prairy Pre-emption Precipice Predial Premises Preoccupancy Preoccupy Preparation Preparer Prepossess Prescription Pretensed Primer-seizin Produce Product Productive Productiveness Profit Promise Promontory Prone Property Prospect Publish Punishment Purchase Pureness Put Quagmire Quarantine Quiet Quit Quitclaim Quite Rack Raise Rake Ranging Real Realization Realize Recentness Reclaim Recover Recovery Redemption Redisseizin Redisseizor Regard Regardant Region Reland Relanding Release Relinquish Remainder Remitter Remove Remover Renounce Rent Report Repossess Reseize Reservation Rest Restorable Reversioner Ric Rich Riches Richness Rid Ridge Right Rightfulness Rise River Rolled Rolling Romantic Rosland Rossel Rough Rudeness Ruggedness Rule Run Running Ryot Sabbatic Sad Sadden Safe Salt Sameness Sand Scary Scenery Scope Screw Scutage Sea Sea-breeze Sea-coast Sea-mark Sea-room Sea-shore Sea-side Search See Seizure Seraskier Serve Service Serviceable Servile Settle Sezin Shack Share Shoot Shore Shut Side Sight Sink Sinus Sit Skim-coulter Slow Soak Socage Socman Soggy Soil Sojourn Sound Sour Sow-thistle Sowed Specht Specuation Speculate Speculator Spit Spred Springiness Springy Spy Squat Squatter Stake Stand Stang Staple Statesman Statute-merchant Statute-staple Sterile Sterility Sterilize Stich Stitch Stitching Stock Strait Strand Strength Strip Subdue Subinfeudation Submersion Subside Subsidy Successor Such Sufferance Summer-fallow Superstitious Surbate Surety Surrenderee Survey Surveying Surveyor Surveyor-general Suspense Swale Swamp Swampy Swang Sward Swardy Sway Sweating-sickness Sweep Sweinmote Table-land Tack Tacksman Tail Take Tallage Tanist Tanistry Tapestry Tax Team Teat Tell Templar Temporals Tenancy Tenant Tenebrous Tenemental Tenure Ter-tenant Term Terraqueous Terrar Terrier Territorial Territory Terseness Teutonic Thane Thane-lands Their Then Theodolite Thick Third Thirsty Tiddle Tide-mill Tide-waiter Tides-man Tile-earth Tillage Tilling Tilth Timbered Tithe Tolerable Top-chain Top-dressing Top-sail Topographer Topography Tore Tract Trade Transfer Transient Transport Transportation Trave Tread Trench Trenching Trespass Trespasser Trial Trifallow Tung Turbary Turfing-spade Turn Twait Twifallow Twifallowing Unappropriated Uncultivated Undeeded Under Underditch Underletting Undertenant Unfenced Ungranted Unimproved Unity Unlocated Unoccupied Unproductive Unproductiveness Unprofitable Unraked Unseated Unserviceable Unsettled Unsowed Untimbered Upland Uplandish Upon Use Usufruct Utility Utmost Vale Valley Valuable Valuation Value Vanish Variety Vassal Vassaled Vehicle Vell Vend Vest Vesture View Villan Villanage Villenage Vomit Wadsett Walk Wane War Warp Warping-clough Warping-cut Warping-drain Warping-gutter Warping-hatch Warping-sluice Warrant Warrantee Warranting Warranty Waste Water-course Water-wort Waterish Watery Way-pane Weak Wealth Wealthy Well-drain Wet Wetness Wharf Whin-ax Whip-stitch Whistle White-campion Wild-land Wilderness Wildness Wind Wind-pump Windrow Winter-kill Wood-land Wooded Woody Worship Worthlessness Wreck Writing Yard Year Yield Zemindar
A Abeyance Abide Abut Abutment Abuttal Access Acephalous Acknowledgment Acre Acred Action Adjacency Admortization Advocate Afforestation Aga Agistment Agrarian Aker Aland Alder Alien Alienable Alienate All Allodium Alluvial Alluvium Alms Amortization Amortizement Amphibial Anglic Annexation Antecessor Appanage Appear Appendance Appoint Approvement Appulse Appurtenance Appurtenant Apt Aquitanian Arable Armament Arpent Arrentation Arrival Arrive Arriving Arsenal Ashore Assart Assets Assizes Attachment Attainder Atteration Auctioneer Austral Avenage Averpenny Balk Banking Bar Bargain Baron Baronage Barren Barton Batable Batful Batten Battle Bay Beacon Bear Beat Beauty Before Believe Belly-pinched Bench Benefice Besides Best Better Between Bight Birds-eye Blencher Blow Board Bockland Bog Bog-ore Boghouse Bold Bord-land Border Borderer Borough Boscage Bottom Bound Bovate Breeze Broomland Bulrush Burgage But Butter-burr Butts By Camaieu Camayeu Camel Cameo Canton Cape Capite Carucate Castellany Cease Census Cessavit Cessor Chain Chalk Champerty Chancellor Chantry Chaplain Charge Chart Charter Charter-land Chattel Chersonese Chess Chief Chivalry Church-land Clay-land Clean Clear Clearing Climate Clover Coast Cognizance Cognizee Commander Commemoration Commission Commission-merchant Commodity Common Commonable Commons Commonty Commonweal Compass Composition Compost Concord Concubinage Condemn Confine Consist Contenement Continent Continual Convertibility Convey Conveyance Convoy Coppice Copyholder Corn-crake Cornage Cornland Corruption Cosinage Cotland Cottager Couch Couchant Countenance Country Courtesy Covenous Cover Cranberry Creaght Credit Crocodile Cross Crusade Cry Cultivate Cultivation Cultivator Daker-hen Danegelt Dark Darkness Daughter Deal Debark Debarked Debarking Decline Declivity Deep Definite Deforcement Degradation Delight Deluge Demain Demand Demise Denizen Depart Depredation Derelict Derivable Descent Descry Desert Designate Desire Despite Destroy Detriment Devise Devisor Die Dike Dine Direct Disbark Discommon Discourage Discover Disembark Disembarked Disembarking Dispauper Dispossess Disseizin Distribute District Ditch Diversify Diversiified Divide Domain Domesday-book Donee Doomsday-book Dot Dower Down Drag Dragon Drain Dressing Drown Dry Dungfork Duty Earing Earth Easel Easement Eat Eddish Eel Effectually Efficacy Eject Ejectment Ejector Elegit Embay Embayed Emblement Emphyteutic Empire Encroach Endow Engagement Enhance Enjoy Enlarge Enough Enrich Entail Entailing Enter Entrance Entry Equal Equality Equity Escheat Escort Escorted Escorting Escrow Espy Estate Estimate Estovers Estrepement Europe Even-tide Everlasting Evict Eviction Excellence Exception Execution Exhaust Exist Expectance Expensive Expilation Explore Export Extend Extent Exterraneous Extirpation Extralimitary Fail Fairy Fall Fallow Fallowing Fallowist Famine Famously Fare Farm Farming Farthing Fatten Favorable Fealty Feasible Feature Fee Feed Felony Fen Fence Feodary Feoffer Fertile Fertility Fertilize Fethered Feud Feudalism Feudary Feudatory Field Fill Fine Firm Fish Flat Float Flood Fly Fog Fogbank Folding Folkland For Forcible Fore Foreland Forest Forfeit Forfeitable Forfeiture Formedon Frankalmoigne Frankchase Frankfee Freehold Frog Fruitfulness Furrowweed Gag Gain Gainage Garden Gavelet Gavelkind Geest Georama Georgic Get Glebe Go Good Goose Gore Gouty Governor Grant Grantor Gravelly Grease Grievous Gross Ground Ground-plot Gulf Half Harrow Haven Haw Headland Heart Hearten Heathy Heavy Heir Hereditament Heriot Heritable Hid Hide Highland Highlandish Hill Hippopotamus Hold Holder Holm Holy Homage Homager Host Hotchpot How Hug Hundreder Husbandman Husbandry Hydage Iceberg Ieland Ill-natured Impeach Impeachable Impend Impoverish Impropriator Improvable Improve Improved Improvement Improver In Incameration Inclose Incloser Inclosure Increase Indraught Infertility Inherit Inland Innings Inquest Intemperance Internal Interval Intrude Inundate Inure Invest Investiture Irrigate Irrigation Island Isle Issue Isthmus Jack Jam Jointure Journey Jubilee Jurisdiction Jut Ken Knight Knight-service Labor Lamprey Lanch Land Landau Landed Landfall Landflood Landgrave Landgraviate Landholder Landing-place Landjobber Landlady Landless Landlock Landlocked Landloper Landlord Landman Landmark Landscape Landslip Landstreight Landward Languish Lava Lawful Lay Layland Lease Leased Leather-seller Lee Levy Lien Light-house Limb Lime Livery Living Locate Location Locomotive Lodge Loom Lordship Lose Lot Lote Love Low Lowland Lug Madden Main Main-land Make Malt-dust Manner Manor Manure Manurer Manuring Map Marque Marsh Meadow Measure Mediately Mediterrane Mend Mesne Messuage Meter Middle Military Mingle Modus Mollusca Money Moneyage Moor Moorland More Mortgage Mortmain Most Mother Mount Mountain Movables Mowing Mown Musketoe Nakedness Near Nearness Neck Neckland New Non-residence Non-resident Novel Nudity Nuisance Nusance Obtain Occupancy Occupant Occupation Occupy Offer Old Omy Orchard Ouster Out Overstock Own Oxgang Paint Palmer Paramount Parcenary Parcener Pare Paring Part Pass Passage Pasturage Pasture Paten Peat Peel Penguin Peninsula Pepper-corn Permistion Personal Perspective Petit Pickle Piece Pipe Piracy Plaice Plan Plantation Pleasure Pledge Plot Plow-land Plower Poach Poachiness Poachy Point Politic Political Poor Poorness Population Portage Possession Possessor Post Post-disseizin Post-disseizor Post-fine Power Prairy Pre-emption Precipice Predial Premises Preoccupancy Preoccupy Preparation Preparer Prepossess Prescription Pretensed Primer-seizin Produce Product Productive Productiveness Profit Promise Promontory Prone Property Prospect Publish Punishment Purchase Pureness Put Quagmire Quarantine Quiet Quit Quitclaim Quite Rack Raise Rake Ranging Real Realization Realize Recentness Reclaim Recover Recovery Redemption Redisseizin Redisseizor Regard Regardant Region Reland Relanding Release Relinquish Remainder Remitter Remove Remover Renounce Rent Report Repossess Reseize Reservation Rest Restorable Reversioner Ric Rich Riches Richness Rid Ridge Right Rightfulness Rise River Rolled Rolling Romantic Rosland Rossel Rough Rudeness Ruggedness Rule Run Running Ryot Sabbatic Sad Sadden Safe Salt Sameness Sand Scary Scenery Scope Screw Scutage Sea Sea-breeze Sea-coast Sea-mark Sea-room Sea-shore Sea-side Search See Seizure Seraskier Serve Service Serviceable Servile Settle Sezin Shack Share Shoot Shore Shut Side Sight Sink Sinus Sit Skim-coulter Slow Soak Socage Socman Soggy Soil Sojourn Sound Sour Sow-thistle Sowed Specht Specuation Speculate Speculator Spit Spred Springiness Springy Spy Squat Squatter Stake Stand Stang Staple Statesman Statute-merchant Statute-staple Sterile Sterility Sterilize Stich Stitch Stitching Stock Strait Strand Strength Strip Subdue Subinfeudation Submersion Subside Subsidy Successor Such Sufferance Summer-fallow Superstitious Surbate Surety Surrenderee Survey Surveying Surveyor Surveyor-general Suspense Swale Swamp Swampy Swang Sward Swardy Sway Sweating-sickness Sweep Sweinmote Table-land Tack Tacksman Tail Take Tallage Tanist Tanistry Tapestry Tax Team Teat Tell Templar Temporals Tenancy Tenant Tenebrous Tenemental Tenure Ter-tenant Term Terraqueous Terrar Terrier Territorial Territory Terseness Teutonic Thane Thane-lands Their Then Theodolite Thick Third Thirsty Tiddle Tide-mill Tide-waiter Tides-man Tile-earth Tillage Tilling Tilth Timbered Tithe Tolerable Top-chain Top-dressing Top-sail Topographer Topography Tore Tract Trade Transfer Transient Transport Transportation Trave Tread Trench Trenching Trespass Trespasser Trial Trifallow Tung Turbary Turfing-spade Turn Twait Twifallow Twifallowing Unappropriated Uncultivated Undeeded Under Underditch Underletting Undertenant Unfenced Ungranted Unimproved Unity Unlocated Unoccupied Unproductive Unproductiveness Unprofitable Unraked Unseated Unserviceable Unsettled Unsowed Untimbered Upland Uplandish Upon Use Usufruct Utility Utmost Vale Valley Valuable Valuation Value Vanish Variety Vassal Vassaled Vehicle Vell Vend Vest Vesture View Villan Villanage Villenage Vomit Wadsett Walk Wane War Warp Warping-clough Warping-cut Warping-drain Warping-gutter Warping-hatch Warping-sluice Warrant Warrantee Warranting Warranty Waste Water-course Water-wort Waterish Watery Way-pane Weak Wealth Wealthy Well-drain Wet Wetness Wharf Whin-ax Whip-stitch Whistle White-campion Wild-land Wilderness Wildness Wind Wind-pump Windrow Winter-kill Wood-land Wooded Woody Worship Worthlessness Wreck Writing Yard Year Yield Zemindar
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