Definition of land

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Land (v. t.) 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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Landmen :: Landmen (pl. ) of Landma.
Cocagne :: Cocagne (n.) The land of cockneys; cockneydom; -- a term applied to London and its suburbs.
Lost :: Lost (v. t.) Not perceptible to the senses; no longer visible; as, an island lost in a fog; a person lost in a crowd..
Collectivism :: Collectivism (n.) The doctrine that land and capital should be owned by society collectively or as a whole; communism.
Agistment :: Agistment (n.) A charge or rate against lands; as, an agistment of sea banks, i. e., charge for banks or dikes..
Marlstone :: Marlstone (n.) A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England..
Adeno- :: Adeno- () Combining forms of the Greek word for gland; -- used in words relating to the structure, diseases, etc., of the glands..
Purbeck Stone :: Purbeck stone () A limestone from the Isle of Purbeck in England.
Papaveraceous :: Papaveraceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Papaveraceae) of which the poppy, the celandine, and the bloodroot are well-known examples..
Wilderness :: Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind..
Firlot :: Firlot (n.) A dry measure formerly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000.
Dove's-foot :: Dove's-foot (n.) A small annual species of Geranium, native in England; -- so called from the shape of the leaf..
Gore :: Gore (v.) A small traingular piece of land.
Scotch :: Scotch (a.) Of or pertaining to Scotland, its language, or its inhabitants; Scottish..
Sign :: Sign (n.) That which, being external, stands for, or signifies, something internal or spiritual; -- a term used in the Church of England in speaking of an ordinance considered with reference to that which it represents..
Jutlander :: Jutlander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Jutland in Denmark.
Fertilize :: Fertilize (v. t.) To make fertile or enrich; to supply with nourishment for plants; to make fruitful or productive; as, to fertilize land, soil, ground, and meadows..
Pulmonata :: Pulmonata (n. pl.) An extensive division, or sub-class, of hermaphrodite gastropods, in which the mantle cavity is modified into an air-breathing organ, as in Helix, or land snails, Limax, or garden slugs, and many pond snails, as Limnaea and Planorbis..
Cockateel :: Cockateel (n.) An Australian parrot (Calopsitta Novae-Hollandiae); -- so called from its note.
Celandine :: Celandine (n.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort..
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