Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LAND'-FORCE, n. [land and force.]

A military force, army or troops serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.

LAND'GRAVE, n. [G. landgraf; D. landgraaf. Graf or graaf is an earl or count, Sax. gerefa, a companion or count. It is contracted into reeve, as in sherif, or shire-reeve.]

In Germany, a count or earl; or an officer nearly corresponding to the earl of England, and the count of France. It is now a title of certain princes who possess estates or territories called landgraviates. – Encyc.

LAND-GRA'VI-ATE, n.

The territory held by a landgrave, or his office, jurisdiction or authority. – Encyc.

LAND'HOLD-ER, n.

A holder, owner or proprietor of land.

LAND'ING, or LAND'ING-PLACE, n.

A place on the shore of the sea or of a lake, or on the bank of a river, where persons land or come on shore, or where goods are set on shore.

LAND'ING, n.

In architecture, the part of a stair-case which is level, without steps, connecting one flight with another. – Elmes.

LAND'ING, ppr.

Setting on shore; coming on shore.

LAND'JOB-BER, n.

A man who makes a business of buying land on speculation, or of buying and selling for the profit of bargains, or who buys and sells for others.

LAND'LA-DY, n. [See Landlord.]

1. A woman who has tenants holding from her. Johnson.
2. The mistress of an inn. – Swift.

LAND'LESS, a.

Destitute of land; having no property in land. – Shak.

LAND'LOCK, v.t. [land and lock.]

To inclose or encompass by land.

LAND'LOCK-ED, pp.

Encompassed by land, so that no point of the compass is open to the sea. – Encyc.

LAND'LO-PER, n. [See Leap and Interloper.]

A landman; literally, a land runner; a term of reproach among seamen to designate a man who passes his life on land.

LAND'LORD, n. [Sax. land-hlaford, lord of the land. But in German lehen-herr, D. leen-herr, is lord of the loan or fief. Perhaps the Saxon is so written by mistake, or the word may have been corrupted.]

1. The lord of a manor or of land; the owner of land who has tenants under him. – Johnson.
2. The master of an inn or tavern. – Addison.

LAND'MAN, n.

A man who serves on land; opposed to seaman.

LAND'MARK, n. [land and mark.]

1. A mark to designate the boundary of land; any mark or fixed object; as, a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones, by which the limits of a farm, a town or other portion of territory may be known and preserved. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix.
2. In navigation, any elevated object on land that serves as a guide to seamen.

LAND'-OF-FICE, n.

In the United States, an office in which the sales of new land are registered, and warrants issued for the location of land, and other business respecting unsettled land is transacted.

LAND-OWN'ER, n.

The proprietor of land.

LAND'REVE, n.

A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

LAND'SCAPE, n. [D. landschap; G. landschaft; Dan. landskab; Sw. landskap; land and skape.]

1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including mountains, rivers, lakes, and whatever the land contains. Whilst the landscape round it measures, / Russet lawns and fallows gray, / Where the nibbling flocks do stray. – Milton.
2. A picture, exhibiting the form of a district of country, as far as the eye can reach, or a particular extent of land and the objects it contains, or its various scenery. – Addison. Pope.
3. The view or prospect of a district of country.

LAND'SLIDE, or LAND'SLIP, n.

A portion of a hill or mountain, which slips or slides down; or the sliding down of a considerable tract of land from a mountain. Landslips are not unfrequent in Swisserland. – Goldsmith.

LANDS'MAN, n.

In seamen's language, a sailor on board a ship, who has not before been at sea.

LAND'STREIGHT, n.

A narrow slip of land. [Not used.] – Montagu.

LAND'-TAX, n.

A tax assessed on land and buildings.

LAND'-TURN, n.

A land breeze. – Encyc.