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LAND, _s._ A clear level place in a wood.
O. E. _Lawnd_, mod. _Lawn_.
_Wyntown._
LAND, _s._ A hook in the form of the letter _S_, S. B.
LAND, _s._ The country; _on land_, _to land_, in the country.
_Acts Ja. II._
A. S. Su. G. _land_, rus.
~Land~, _s._ A house consisting of different stories, generally as including different tenements, S.
_Arnot._
~Land~ _of the leal_, the state of the blessed.
_Old Song._
_To_ ~Land~, _v. n._ To end; from the idea of terminating a voyage, S.
_Callender._
~Landbirst~, ~Land-bryst~, _s._ Breakers.
_Barbour._
Isl. _brestr_, Su. G. _brist_, fragor.
~Landimer~, _s._ A land-measurer.
_Skene._
A. S. _landimere_, properly a boundary of land.
~Landis-lorde~, ~Landslorde~, _s._ A landlord.
_Acts Ja. VI._
~Land-louper~, _s._ One who frequently flits from one place or country to another, S.
_Polwart._
Teut. _land-looper_, erro vagus.
~Land-man~, _s._ A proprietor of land.
_Bannatyne Poems._
Isl. _lender menn_, n.o.biles terrarum domini.
~Land-tripper~, _s._ The sand-piper, Galloway.
_Stat. Acc._
~Landwart~, ~Landart~, _adj._
1. Belonging to the country; as opposed to boroughs.
_Complaynt S._
2. Rustic, boorish, S.
_Ramsay._
A. S. _land_, rus, and _weard_, versus.
LANDERS. _Lady Landers_, the insect called the Lady-bird; as appropriated to the Virgin Mary, in Popish times called _Our Lady_, S.
_To_ LANE, _v. a._ To lie.
V. ~Layne~.
_Houlate._
LANE, _n._ A gift.
_Henrysone._
Su. G. _laan_, donum.
LANE, _adj._ Lone, alone.
_Dunbar._
_To_ LANG, _v. n._ To belong, to become.
Germ. _lang-en_, pertinere.
