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The wife of a landgrave.

A holder, owner, or proprietor of land. -- Land"hold`ing, n. & a.

Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel. -- Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked. -- Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf…

A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

See Landlouper.

Having no property in land.

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.