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, one of the provinces, or largest administrative divisions of the monarchy; as, the crownland of Lower Austria.

Peninsula. [Obs.] Knolles.

To strip of a garland. [Poetic] "Thy locks disgarland." Drummond.

To slander. [Obs.] Legend of Dido.

Slanderous. [Obs.]

real, delightful country such as in sometimes pictured in dreams; region of fancies; fairyland. [He] builds a bridge from dreamland for his lay. Lowell.

An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets. Cowell.

Destitute of glands.

A species of large South African antelope (Oreas canna). It is valued both for its hide and flesh, and is rapidly disappearing in the settled districts; -- called also Cape elk.

Fairyland. Tennyson.

To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.

The imaginary land or abode of fairies.

One's native land; the native land of one's fathers or ancestors.

See Filanders.

A species of kangaroo (Macropus Brunii), inhabiting New Guinea.

A disease in hawks, characterized by the presence of small threadlike worms, also of filaments of coagulated blood, from the rupture of a vein; -- called also backworm. Sir T. Browne.

A native or inhabitant of Finland.

Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley & W.

A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.

ology. They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands. Percy.