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4. The inhabitants of a nation or people.
These answers, in the silent night received,
The king himself divulged, the land believed. Dryden. 5. The mainland, in distinction from islands.
6. The ground or floor. [Obs.]
Herself upon the land she did prostrate. Spenser. 7. (Agric.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is
divided for convenience in plowing.
8. (Law) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything
annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc.; real
estate. Kent. Bouvier. Burrill.
9. (Naut.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; — called also
landing. Knight.
10. In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is
not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled
gun between the grooves.
Land agent, a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters
connected with land. — Land boat, a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails. — Land blink, a peculiar
atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink.
— Land breeze. See under Breeze. — Land chain. See Gunter's chain. — Land crab (Zoöl.),
any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water chiefly for the
purpose of breeding. They are abundant in the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow
to a large size. — Land fish a fish on land; a person quite out of place. Shak. — Land force, a
military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force. — Land, ho! (Naut.), a sailor's cry
in announcing sight of land. — Land ice, a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe.
— Land leech (Zoöl.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical
regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast. — Land measure, the system of
measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement. —
Land, or House, of bondage, in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special
oppression. — Land o' cakes, Scotland. — Land of Nod, sleep. — Land of promise, in Bible
history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation. — Land of
steady habits, a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut. — Land office, a government
office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting
the public lands is transacted. [U.S.] — Land pike. (Zoöl.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The
Menobranchus. — Land service, military service as distinguished from naval service. — Land rail.
(Zoöl) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe. See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypotænidia Phillipensis); —
called also pectoral rail. — Land scrip, a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of
the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. [U.S.] — Land shark, a swindler of
sailors on shore. [Sailors' Cant] — Land side (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island
or ship, which is turned toward the land. (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard
and which presses against the unplowed land. — Land snail (Zoöl.), any snail which lives on land,
as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated
land snails of warm countries are Diœcia, and belong to the Tænioglossa. See Geophila, and Helix. —
Land spout, a descent of cloud and water in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and
heavy rainfall on land. - - Land steward, a person who acts for another in the management of land,
collection of rents, etc. — Land tortoise, Land turtle (Zoöl.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry
land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise. — Land warrant, a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing
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