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In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.

The state or quality of being bland.

See Bookland.

The Jesuit editors of the "Acta Sanctorum", or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work.

Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

Either land held by a bordar, or the land which a lord kept for the maintenance of his board, or table. Spelman.

A peninsula. [Obs.]

See Bilander.[Obs.]

(Mus.) Gradually diminishing in rapidity and loudness.

acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria).

blic notice, usually for an evil purpose; kept secret; hidden; private; underhand; as, a clandestine marriage. Locke.

Privacy or secrecy. [R.]

A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure.

Dreamland.

A utensil with a bottom perforated with little holes for straining liquids, mashed vegetable pulp, etc.; a strainer of wickerwork, perfprated metal, or the like.

A piece of ground terminating in a point or acute angle. [Obs.]

Land appendant to a cot or cottage, or held by a cottager or cotter.

Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.

Land or region where one was cradled; hence, land of origin.

Land of superior quality, on which successive crops are raised. [Scot.] Jamieson.