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Mellow, as land. [Prov.Eng.] Ray.

s, boxes, baskets, bottles, etc.; also, to means of communication or approach by water or land; as, an open harbor or roadstead. Through the gate, Wide open and unquarded, Satan passed. Milton

ituation; fitness. [Obs.] Hull, a town of great strength and opportunity, both to sea and land affairs. Milton.

nd its opposite. The virtuous man meets with more opposites and opponents than any other. Landor.

mbals by the object end beneath a fixed diagonal plane mirror. It is used for delineating landscapes, by means of a pencil at the eye end which leaves the delineation on paper.

A small landlocked variety of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar ounaniche) of Lake St. John, Canada, and neighboring waters, noted for its vigor and activity, and habit of leaping from the water when hooked.

tone. Ouster le main. Etym: [Ouster + F. la main the hand, L. manus.] (Law) A delivery of lands out of the hands of a guardian, or out of the king's hands, or a judgement given for that purpose. Blackstone.

tc.; as, the Democrats went out and the Whigs came in; he put his money out at interest. "Land that is out at rack rent." Locke. "He was out fifty pounds." Bp. Fell. I have forgot my part, and I am out. Shak.

One who holds land in a parish, but lives elsewhere. [Eng.]

Arable land which has been or is being exhausted. See Infield, 1. [Scot.]

oyage, or of a person for an expedition in an unoccupied region or residence in a foreign land; things required for equipment; the expense of, or allowance made for, equipment, as by the government of the United States to a diplomatic agent going abroad.

Ground situated at a distance from the house; outlying land.

Foreign; not native. Him did outlandish women cause to sin. Neh. xiii. 26. Its barley water and its outlandish wines. G. W. Cable.

Being, or accomplished, over the land, instead of by sea; as, an overland journey.

One who travels over lands or countries; one who travels overland.

A measure of land. See 3d Hide.

The pagan lands; pagans, collectively; paganism. [R.]

hues; to exhibit in a tinted image; to portray with paints; as, to paint a portrait or a landscape.

votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place or places, but th…

A part; a portion; a piece; as, a certain piece of land is part and parcel of another piece.