noun. Possession and use of one's own land.

noun. Manorial land retained for the private use of a feudal lord.

noun. The grounds belonging to a mansion or country house.

noun. An extensive piece of landed property; an estate.

noun. A district; a territory.

noun. A realm; a domain.

noun. Power; dominion; possession. See demain.

noun. A manor-house and the land adjacent or near, which a lord of the manor keeps in his own occupation, for the use of his family, as distinguished from his tenemental lands, distributed among his tenants, originally called bookland or charter-land, and folk-land or estates held in villeinage, from which sprang copyhold estates.

noun. Any estate in land.

noun. A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use.

noun. See under Ancient.

noun. A lord’s chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor’s own use.

noun. territory over which rule or control is exercised

noun. extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use