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odus decimandi. Blackstone. They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition. Landor. Modus operandi ( Etym: [L.], manner of operating.

In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money. The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. 1 Tim vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. -- Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells…

possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.

Exclusive possession; as, a monopoly of land. If I had a monopoly out, they would have part on 't. Shak.

Land consisting of a moor or moors.

A round hill or point of land; hence, Morro castle, a castle on a hill.

State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. Chattel mortgage. See under Chattel. -- To foreclose a mortgage. See under Foreclose. -- Mortgage deed (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage.

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

Of or pertaining to the Mohammedans; Mohammedan; as, Moslem lands; the Moslem faith.

n do ever stir, though there be no wind. Bacon. We are motes in the midst of generations. Landor.

litary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor.

earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.

Land from which grass is cut; meadow land. Mowing machine, an agricultural machine armed with knives or blades for cutting standing grass, etc. It is drawn by a horse or horses, or propelled by steam.

admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

to the place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.

tc. Chaucer. I have served him from the hour of my nativity. Shak. Thou hast left ... the land of thy nativity. Ruth ii. 11. These in their dark nativity the deep Shall yield us, pregnant with infernal flame. Milton.

The power or act of discovering ships or land at considerable distances.

nty years ago." Shak. "Near a fortnight ago." Addison. Near about the yearly value of the land. Locke.

A long narrow tract of land projecting from the main body, or a narrow tract connecting two larger tracts.