<noun.possession> he built the house on land leased from the city
material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use)
<noun.object> the land had never been plowed good agricultural soil
territory over which rule or control is exercised
<noun.location> his domain extended into Europe he made it the law of the land
the solid part of the earth's surface
<noun.object> 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
the territory occupied by a nation
<noun.location> he returned to the land of his birth he visited several European countries
a domain in which something is dominant
<noun.state> the untroubled kingdom of reason a land of make-believe the rise of the realm of cotton in the south
extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
<noun.possession> the family owned a large estate on Long Island
the people who live in a nation or country
<noun.group> a statement that sums up the nation's mood the news was announced to the nation the whole country worshipped him
a politically organized body of people under a single government
<noun.group> 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
United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
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agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life
<noun.act> farming is a strenuous life there's no work on the land any more [ verb ]
Land \Land\ (l[a^]nd), n. Urine. See {Lant}. [Obs.]
Land \Land\, n. [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.
Land \Land\, v. i. 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]
Land \Land\, v. t. [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]
Alan Olson, a Century 21 real-estate agent in nearby Fergus Falls, expects Grant County land prices to stall this fall after rising 20% in the past year.
Bush has 7,000 tires on land he owns in the village.
These include public utilities and oil supply, finance, securities and insurance, land and housing.
Because idle farm land decimated the demand for labor, fertilizer, farm equipment and other ag inputs.
He then called out: "Where is Mike?" A newspaper reported today that Palestinian guerrilla groups have agreed to set up an independent state on land occupied by Israel.
Excavation began four years ago when a backhoe, clearing land for a house, uncovered a graveyard.
The group announced agreements with the state and private developers to conserve land around the pond where Thoreau built an cabin and lived for two years, and also promoted an effort to create affordable housing in nearby Concord.
And finally, higher interest rates, softer land prices, and tighter restrictions on bank loans to property companies, have crippled the purchasing power of speculator groups.
As previously reported, the Securities and Exchange Commission said last summer that Gemcraft had improperly hidden from shareholders the fact that Gemcraft was obligated under certain conditions to repurchase the land.
But some of that tobacco-tax money would also be used in the land acquisition program.
He also said the next rally in land prices will be unlike the one in the 1970s, which was fueled by inflation.
"We reserve the right to impose our standards of taste," said Wayne Ethridge, a land planner, who is sponsoring the contest with Herschell Ross.
Instead, however, it focused mostly on a single component of recreation: the "outdoor estate," or land.
In recent years, farmers have been required to idle some land to be eligible for federal payments.
Borge, a naturalized U.S. citizen who is still revered in his native land, was reported to be spending a quiet birthday at his vacation home in Christiansted, St. Croix, in the former Danish West Indies.
Mr Peter Churchouse, managing director of Morgan Stanley, said: 'The government is absolutely appalling in its land policy.
Most of the Maronites remaining in the north are old people who mainly work the land.
At that stage the local authorities had different ideas to us about the way forward. 'Since then, we have serviced all the outstanding land and gained planning consents for much of it.
Business Day said President F.W. de Klerk is expected to call for the scrapping of the Group Areas Act, which segregates neighborhoods by race, and the Land Acts, which reserve 87 percent of the country's land for the white minority.
Bahlinger said the fast was designed to call attention to the peasants' appeals for land reform and better working and living conditions.
For example, under current rules if you get a notice that, congratulations, your land has been designated a "wetland," it's a disaster.
And with Russia's political situation remaining so volatile, irrespective of the 'fantasy land' economics, these seem to be risks that most international mining companies would prefer not to take.
And that is the story not only of those Finns, but of all the peoples who braved the seas to settle in and build my country, a land of freedom for a nation of immigrants.
Small farmers will continue to be expelled from their land." His commission is linked with the Roman Catholic Church.
Much of the land on which sugar-beet was to be grown remained wet and cold far longer than normal.
In addition, or alternatively, it could invest in chargeable assets and thereby reduce the company's interest in land to less than half.
"I'll never forget this, thank you," the captain shouted into the radio after Larnaca Airport air traffic controllers told him he was cleared to land.
At Porterville, 18 Earth First! members handed out fliers that accused the Forest Service of degrading the land with timber-cutting and forest roads.
Spear points, arrowheads and flakes from toolmaking were uncovered while developers were bulldozing land for a subdivision in 1988.
Today's growth management makes land more valuable by limiting development and provides no motivation for more efficient uses.