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A portion of land nearly surrounded by water, and connected with a larger body by a neck, or isthmus.

Florida; -- a nickname.

Of or pertaining to a peninsula; as, a peninsular form; peninsular people; the peninsular war.

To form into a peninsula. South River . . . peninsulates Castle Hill farm. W. Bentley.

A peninsula. [Obs.]

A peninsula; a tract of land nearly surrounded by water, but united to a larger tract by a neck of land or isthmus; as, the Cimbric Chersonese, or Jutland; the Tauric Chersonese, or Crimea.

Peninsula. [Obs.] Knolles.

r, by the constant attacks of independent bands, adopted in the north of Spain during the Peninsular war.

A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan. India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also China in…

India in the west to Formosa in the east and from Central Asia in the north to the Malay Peninsula in the south.

A neck or narrow slip of land by which two continents are connected, or by which a peninsula is united to the mainland; as, the Isthmus of Panama; the Isthmus of Suez, etc. Isthmus of the fauces. (Anat.) See Fauces.

The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.

A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. Malacca cane (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus (C. Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to the Peloponnesus, or southern peninsula of Greece. -- n.

Hence, to look or front toward; to face. [Obs.] It is peninsula which regardeth the mainland. Sandys. That exceedingly beatiful seat, on the assregarding the river. Evelyn.

e; secluded; quiet; as, a retired life; a person of retired habits. A retired part of the peninsula. Hawthorne.