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Fitzgerald (as used in expressions) (sh) and land(1) (iou)


Fitzgerald (as used in expressions) (sh)


land(1) (iou)



land noun1. [land]
[Old English land (= Old Frisian, Old Saxon (Dutch), Old Norse, Gothic land), Old High German lant (German Land), from Germanic.]
The solid part of the earth's surface, as distinguished from the sea or water, or from the air. OE.
a. Ground or soil, esp. with ref. to its use or properties. OE.
arable land, badland(s), flatland, plough-land, stubble land, etc.
b. the land, the (cultivable) earth regarded as a repository of natural resources and the chief source of human sustenance or livelihood. LME.
G. B. Shaw You must nationalize the land and put a stop to this shameless exploitation.
c. An area of ground under cultivation; a field. Freq. in pl. S. Afr. M18.
A part of the earth's surface marked off by natural or political boundaries; a territory, a country, a nation, a State. Also (fig.), a realm, a domain. OE.
Ground or territory held as public or private property, landed property, (in Law usu. together with any buildings etc. above the ground and any minerals, mines, etc., beneath it). In pl., territorial possessions. OE.
G. Berkeley A convenient house with a hundred acres of land adjoining to it. Ld Macaulay Their lands had been divided by Cromwell among his followers.
The country, as opp. to the town. OE-L18.
a. A strip of arable land or pasture divided from Other similar strips by furrows (formerly freq. taken as a local unit of measure). LME.
b. Chiefly Engineering. An area or space left between adjacent grooves, holes, etc., in a surface, as (a) the top of a tooth on various metal-cutting tools immediately behind the cutting edge; (b) the space between the grooves of a rifle bore; (c) the space between the furrows of a millstone; (d) the space between the grooves of a gramophone record. M19.
A tenement building, usu. divided into flats for different households. Scot. LME.
A stretch of country of undefined extent. Usu. with specifying word, as highland, lowland, mountain-land, etc. E17.
W. Wharton As I've gone north, the traffic has picked up and the land has flattened out.
euphem. = LORD noun 5: in exclamatory phrs. US. M19.
the land knows, good land, land's sake, for the land's sake.
Phrases: be on the land Austral. be engaged in rural (usu. agricultural) occupations. by land by way of the land, on or over the land (as a mode of Travel or conveyance), on foot or using a vehicle etc. common land: see COMMON adjective. fast land: see FAST adjective. firm land: see FIRM adjective. happy land: see HAPPY adjective. height of land: see HEIGHT noun. Holy Land: see HOLY adjective. how the land lies fig. what the situation is. in the land of the living alive. land ahoy!, land ho! interjections (Nautical): announcing the sighting of land from the sea. land of cakes: see CAKE noun. Land of Little Sticks: see Land of the Little Sticks below. land of the broad acres: see BROAD adjective 2. land of the Covenant: see COVENANT noun. Land of the Free US the United States of America. Land of the Little Sticks, Land of Little Sticks Canad. [Chinook stik wood, tree, forest] the subarctic tundra region of northern Canada, characterized by its stunted vegetation. Land of the Long White Cloud NZ New Zealand. land of the midnight sun (that part of) any of the most northerly European countries in which it never gets fully dark during the summer months. land of the rising sun Japan. lands and tenements: see TENEMENT 2. land to Nautical just within sight of land, when at sea. law of the land: see LAW noun1. lie of the land: see LIE noun2. live off the land: see LIVE verb. Never Never Land: see NEVER. no man's land: see NO adjective. promised land: see PROMISE verb. red land: see RED adjective. the fat of the land: see FAT noun2. the Flowery Land: see FLOWERY adjective 1. the land: see sense 2b above. the land of nod: see NOD noun. ure of land: see URE noun2. white land: see WHITE adjective. wide brown land: see WIDE adjective. within land: see WITHIN adverb, preposition, adjective, & noun. yard of land: see YARD noun2 4.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'belonging, attached to, or characteristic of the land', 'situated or taking place on land (as opp. to on the sea or water or in the air)', 'living on land (as opp. to on or in water)', as land-battle, land-bird, land-engine, land-journey, land-monster, land-plant, land-prospect, land-snail, land-soldier, etc. Special combs., as land-agency (a) the occupation of a land-agent; (b) an agency for the sale etc. of estates; land-agent (a) a steward or manager of landed property; (b) an agent for the sale of land; land army (a) an army that fights on land; (b) (also with cap. initials) a corps of women established in Britain in 1917 for work on the land esp. in wartime; land-bred adjective (a) brought up on land (as opp. to on sea); (b) native, indigenous; land breeze: see BREEZE noun2 2; land-bridge (a) a connection (usu. prehistoric) between two land masses; (b) an overland route linking countries more directly than Other routes; land-carrack (a) a coasting vessel; (b) a prostitute; land-carriage (the cost of) carriage or transport by land; land-community joint or common ownership of land; land-connection = land-bridge (a) above; land-crab any crab of the tropical and subtropical family Gecarcinidae, many members of which spend much time on land; esp. (in full blue land-crab) a New World crab, Cardisoma guanhumi; land cress a winter cress, Barbarea verna, native to SW Europe and grown as a salad plant (cf. WATERCRESS); land district US any of the districts into which a State or territory is divided for matters connected with land; land-drain a drain made of porous or perforated piping, placed in a gravel-filled trench, and used for subsoil drainage; land-end (now dial.) a piece of ground at the end of a land in a ploughed field; land-fast adjective firmly attached to the shore; land fever N. Amer. eager desire for, or excitement about, securing land; landfill (a) the disposal of refuse by burying it under layers of earth; (b) refuse disposed of under layers of earth, an area filled in by this process; land-fish fig. an unnatural creature; land-floe a sheet of sea-ice extending from the land; land-flood: caused by the overflowing of a river or Other inland water; land-folk the people of a land or country; land force an armed force serving on land, as opp. to a naval or air force; in pl., the soldiers composing such a force; landform (a) a physical feature of the earth's surface; (b) (land-form) a species (of organism) found on land; land-fyrd (obsolete exc. Hist.) a land force; land-gavel Hist. land-tax; rent for land, ground-rent; land-girl a member of the Land Army; land-grabber an illegal seizer of land, esp. (Irish History) a person who took a farm after the eviction of the previous tenant; land grant a grant of public land; land-grant college (US), a college set up with federal aid; landholder a proprietor, holder, or occupier of land; land-hunger keen desire for the acquisition of land; land-hungry adjective eager to acquire land; land-ice ice attached to the shore, as distinguished from floe ice; land-jobber a person who buys and sells land on speculation; land law (a) (long obsolete exc. Hist.) the law of a country, the law of the land; (b) the law, or a law, relating to landed property; Land League Irish History an association of Irish tenant farmers etc. set up in 1879 (and suppressed in 1881), which sought to have rents reduced and ultimately to bring about radical land reform; Land-leaguer Irish History a member of or sympathizer with the Land League; Land-leaguism Irish History the principles or practice of the Land League; land-leech a large terrestrial leech of the tropical genus Haemodipsa; land legs the ability to walk comfortably on land after being at sea, in a train, etc.; land line an overland means of telecommunication; land-line verb trans. transmit over a landline; land-locked adjective (a) (almost) enclosed or surrounded by land; (b) hemmed in or limited by surrounding land; land-looker US = CRUISER 2a; land mass a large continuous area of land, esp. of continental size; land-measure (a) measurement of land; (b) a unit of measure or system of such units used in stating the area of land; land-measurement the Art or process of measuring the area of fields, farms, etc.; land-measurer a person whose occupation is land-measurement; land-measuring = land-measurement above; land-mine (a) an explosive mine used on land; (b) a bomb dropped by parachute from an aircraft; land mullet a large burrowing lizard, Egernia major, of the skink family, with shiny fishlike scales, native to the coastal regions of eastern Australia; land-office US an office recording dealings in public land; land-office business (colloq.), enormous trade; landowner an owner or proprietor of land; landowning noun & adjective owning land, being the proprietor of land; land-pike US (a) = hellbender s.v. HELL noun; (b) a thin, inferior type of pig; landplane an aircraft which can only operate from or alight on land (opp. seaplane); land-poor adjective (US) poor through the burden of taxation resulting from owning much land; landrail the corncrake; land-rat (a) a rat that lives on land; (b) a contemptible person, a thief; Land Registry (a building or office housing) a government department with which titles to or charges upon land must be registered; land-right (obsolete exc. Hist.) = land law (a) above; Landrover (proprietary name for) a sturdy four-wheel-drive motor vehicle designed esp. for work in rough or agricultural country; land scrip: see SCRIP noun2 2b; land-service service as a soldier on land; land-shark slang (a) a person who makes a living by exploiting seamen when they are ashore; (b) = land-grabber above; land ship (a) a vehicle on land (esp. a tank) regarded as resembling in function a ship on the sea; (b) a ship erected and kept on land for Training purposes; land-sick adjective (a) sick through the sight of land; sick of being on land; (b) ill from being on land again after a long sea voyage; (c) Nautical (of a ship) impeded in its movements by being close to land; land speed (a) speed (of an aircraft) relative to the ground; (b) speed on the ground (e.g. in a motor vehicle); land spring a spring which comes into action and overflows only intermittently, usu. after heavy rains; land-steward a person who manages a landed estate for the owner; land-stream a current in the sea due to river waters; land-surveying the process, Art, or profession of measuring, and making plans of, landed property; land-surveyor a person whose profession is land-surveying; land-swell the roll of the water near the shore; land-take the action of taking land, or an area of land taken, for colonization or development; land-tax Hist. a tax levied on landed property; land-thief a person who robs land or robs on land; land-tie a rod, beam, or piece of masonry securing or supporting a wall etc. by connecting it with the ground; land-value the economic value of land in all respects, esp. as a basis for rating or taxation; land-war (a) a war waged on land, as opp. to a naval or air war; (b) a dispute or struggle concerning land; land-wash (a) the wash of the tide near the shore; (b) (orig. N. Amer.) the part of a beach covered by water at high tide; land-water (a) water flowing through or over land, as opp. to seawater; (b) = land-flood above; (c) water free from ice along a frozen shore; land wheel the wheel of a plough that runs on the unploughed land; land-wind a wind blowing seaward from the land; land wire = land line above; land yacht a vehicle with wheels and a sail or sails for recreational use on a beach etc.