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A neck of land. [Obs.]

ous. Thou shalt open thy hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy in thy land. Deut. xv. 11. Spare the bluches of needly merit. Dr. T. Dwight.

protest against the unfair treatment of Irish Catholics, because it is nervous about the land. M. Arnold. Nervous fever (Med.), a low form of fever characterized by great disturbance of the nervous system, as evinced by delirium, or stupor, disordered sensibility, etc. -- Nervous system (Anat.), the specialized coörd…

racter changed by the power of God, so as to be governed by new and holy motives. -- New land, land ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen…

ight flights, the principal post at the foot of a staircase, or the secondary ones at the landings. See Hollow newel, under Hollow.

the children] when they do amiss. Locke. Nations obey my word and wait my nod. Prior. The land of Nod, sleep.

Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. That no-man's land of twilight. W. Black.

one's own estate, or in one's proper place; as, a nonresident clergyman or proprietor of lands.

A plea of a defendant that he did not hold the land, as affirmed.

raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel.

The land in the north; north country. [Chiefly Poetic]

objurgation on Mr.Ben Allen. Dickens. With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs. Landor.

ormal pledge. That they may not incline or be obligated to any vile or lowly occupations. Landor.

interested schemes of ...obnoxious authors." Bp. Fell. All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter. Waller.

ol; the state of being occupied; a holding or keeping; tenure; use; as, the occupation of lands by a tenant.

Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples, esp. Scandinavians, the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen; also, the ownership of such land. The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale…

nd then; occasionally. (b) (Naut.) On different tacks, now toward, and now away from, the land. -- To be off. (a) To depart; to escape; as, he was off without a moment's warning. (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.] -- To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To g…

That part of a landscape which recedes from the spectator into distance. [R.] Fairholt.

Long cultivated; as, an old farm; old land, as opposed to Ant: new land, that is, to land lately cleared.

place at the same time; unbounded or universal presence; ubiquity. His omnipresence fills Land, sea, and air, and every kind that lives. Milton.