Emily Dickinson Lexicon

land (-s), n. [OE land.] (webplay: between, country, earth, field, freedom, furrow, ground, house, lay, left, nature, night, old, own, place, plain, sea, see, set, ship, shore, silence, small, state, suppose, traitor, water).

1. Solid portion of the earth's surface, as opposed to sea, water.
2. Part of the earth's surface marked off by natural or political boundaries or considered as an integral section of the globe; country; territory; dominion.
3. Region; territorial possession; piece of landed property; estate in land.
4. Clear place or area; a plain or field.
5. Folk; inhabitants of a country or region; people of a nation.
6. [Fig.] heaven.
7. Shore; especially used in nautical phrases pertaining to its discovery from sea as the ship approaches it; cry of sailors at the first sight of land.
8. [Fig.] Opportunity; goal; end; destination.
9. [Fig.] far.