noun. The solid ground of the earth.

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noun. Ground or soil.

noun. A topographically or functionally distinct tract.

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noun. A nation; a country.

noun. The people of a nation, district, or region.

noun. Territorial possessions or property.

noun. Public or private landed property; real estate.

noun. The solid material of the earth as well as the natural and manmade things attached to it and the rights and interests associated with it.

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noun. An agricultural or farming area.

noun. Farming considered as a way of life.

noun. An area or realm.

noun. The raised portion of a grooved surface, as on a phonograph record.

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intransitive verb. To bring to and unload on land.

intransitive verb. To set (a vehicle) down on land or another surface.

intransitive verb. To cause to arrive in a place or condition.

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intransitive verb. To catch and pull in (a fish).

intransitive verb. To win; secure.

intransitive verb. To deliver.

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intransitive verb. To come to shore.

intransitive verb. To disembark.

intransitive verb. To descend toward and settle onto the ground or another surface.

intransitive verb. To arrive in a place or condition.

intransitive verb. To come to rest in a certain way or place.

noun. Urine.

noun. The solid substance of the earth's surface; any part of the continuous surface of the solid materials constituting the body of the globe: as, dry or submerged land; mountain or desert land.

noun. The exposed part of the earth's surface, as distinguished from the submerged part; dry or solid ground: as, to travel by land and water; to spy land from the masthead.

noun. A part of the earth's surface distinguished in any way from other parts; a country, division, or tract considered as the home of a person or a people, or marked off by ethnical, physical, or moral characteristics: as, one's native land; the land of the midnight sun; the land of the citron and myrtle.

noun. The country; the rural regions; in general, distant regions.

noun. Ground considered as a subject of use or possession; earth; soil.

noun. A strip of land left unbroken in a plowed field; the space between two furrows.

noun. Hence That part of the inner surface of a rifle which lies between the grooves.

noun. In a millstone, the plane surface between two furrows.

noun. The smooth uncut part of the face-plate of a slide-valve in a steam-engine.

noun. The lap of the strakes in a clincher-built boat. Also called landing.

noun. In some cities in Scotland, a group of separate dwellings under one roof and having a common entry; a dwelling-house divided into tenements for different families, each tenement being called a house, and the whole a land, or a land of houses.

noun. See laund.

To put on or bring to shore; disembark; debark; transfer to land in any way: as, to land troops or goods; to land a fish.

Hence To bring to a point of stoppage or rest; bring to the end of a journey, or a course of any kind.

Nautical, to rest, as a cask or spar, on the deck or elsewhere, by lowering with a rope or tackle.

To go ashore from a ship or boat; disembark.

To come to land or shore; touch at a wharf or other landing-place, as a boat or steamer.

To arrive; come to a stop: as, I landed at his house: the wagon landed in a ditch.

noun. One of the strips into which a field is divided in plowing: same as ridge, 3. See quotation under cut, 24. Compare dead furrow.

noun. Uncultivated land subject to taxation.