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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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3,549 words match “LAND”

A neck of land. [Obs.]

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptosp…

NEWFOUNDLAND n. 2 definitions

An island on the coast of British North America, famed for the fishing grounds in its vicinity.

NO-MAN'S LAND n. 2 definitions

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

NORLAND n. 2 definitions

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

A northener; a person from the north country.

Foreign; outlandish. [Obs.] Strutt.

A foreigner. Wood.

OUTLANDISH a. 2 definitions

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

OVERLAND a. 2 definitions

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.

PARLANDO; PARLANTE a.

Speaking; in a speaking or declamatory manner; to be sung or played in the style of a recitative.

PEYER'S GLANDS n.

Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.

PHILANDER v. 4 definitions

To make love to women; to play the male flirt. You can't go philandering after her again. G. Eliot.

One who hangs about women; a male flirt. [R.] C. Kingsley.

PLOWLAND; PLOUGLAND n. 2 definitions

Land that is plowed, or suitable for tillage.

A native or inhabitant of Poland; a Pole.

PORTLAND CEMENT n.

A cement having the color of the Portland stone of England, made by calcining an artificial mixture of carbonate of lime and clay, or sometimes certain natural limestones or chalky clays. It contains a large proportion of clay, and hardens under water.

PORTLAND STONE n.

A yellowish-white calcareous freestone from the Isle of Portland in England, much used in building.

PORTLAND VASE n.

r vase found in the tomb of the Emperor Alexander Severus. It is owned by the Duke of Portland, and kept in the British Museum.