Definition of land

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Land (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands..

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Excito-secretory :: Excito-secretory (a.) Exciting secretion; -- said of the influence exerted by reflex action on the function of secretion, by which the various glands are excited to action..
Alternate :: Alternate (v. i.) To vary by turns; as, the land alternates between rocky hills and sandy plains..
Shore :: Shore (v. t.) The coast or land adjacent to a large body of water, as an ocean, lake, or large river..
Conch :: Conch (n.) One of the white natives of the Bahama Islands or one of their descendants in the Florida Keys; -- so called from the commonness of the conch there, or because they use it for food..
Riding :: Riding (n.) One of the three jurisdictions into which the county of York, in England, is divided; -- formerly under the government of a reeve. They are called the North, the East, and the West, Riding..
Mount :: Mount (v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry..
Lichenin :: Lichenin (n.) A substance isomeric with starch, extracted from several species of moss and lichen, esp. from Iceland moss..
Inclose :: Inclose (v. t.) To separate from common grounds by a fence; as, to inclose lands..
Butterbur :: Butterbur (n.) A broad-leaved plant (Petasites vulgaris) of the Composite family, said to have been used in England for wrapping up pats of butter..
Landamman :: Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Landing :: Landing (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore..
Clergyman :: Clergyman (n.) An ordained minister; a man regularly authorized to preach the gospel, and administer its ordinances; in England usually restricted to a minister of the Established Church..
Fare :: Fare (v.) The price of passage or going; the sum paid or due for conveying a person by land or water; as, the fare for crossing a river; the fare in a coach or by railway..
Blandisher :: Blandisher (n.) One who uses blandishments.
Laputan :: Laputan (a.) Of or pertaining to Laputa, an imaginary flying island described in Gulliver's Travels as the home of chimerical philosophers. Hence, fanciful; preposterous; absurd in science or philosophy..
Feud :: Feud (n.) A stipendiary estate in land, held of superior, by service; the right which a vassal or tenant had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee..
Bagpipe :: Bagpipe (n.) A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland..
Ghaut :: Ghaut (n.) Stairs descending to a river; a landing place; a wharf.
Batten :: Batten (v. t.) To fertilize or enrich, as land..
Issue :: Issue (v. i.) To be produced as an effect or result; to grow or accrue; to arise; to proceed; as, rents and profits issuing from land, tenements, or a capital stock..
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