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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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, 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. (Zoöl.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger.
(b) The Menobranchus. -- Land service, military service as
distinguished from naval service. -- Land rail. (Zoöl) (a) The crake or
corncrake of Europe. See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypotænidia
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 (Zoöl.), 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 Diœcia, and
belong to the Tænioglossa. 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (?), 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.