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To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.

Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.

Same as Landlouper.

The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.

The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands. J. S. Mill.

The state of a landlord. [Obs.]

A vagabond; a vagrant. [Written also landleaper and landloper.] "Bands of landloupers." Moltey.

Vagrant; wandering about.

One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.

A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.

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.

An owner of land.

The owning of land. -- a.

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

A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

A painter of landscapes.

A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.] Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.

See Legislature, below.