Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter L - Page 8

Lanceolate (a.) Alt. of Lanceolated

Lanceolated (a.) Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.

Lancepesade (n.) An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.

Lancer (n.) One who lances; one who carries a lance; especially, a member of a mounted body of men armed with lances, attached to the cavalry service of some nations.

Lancer (n.) A lancet.

Lancer (n.) A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.

Lancet (n.) A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.

Lancet (n.) An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.

Lancewood (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae).

Lanched (imp. & p. p.) of Lanch

Lanching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanch

Lanch (v. t.) To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.

Lanciferous (a.) Bearing a lance.

Lanciform (a.) Having the form of a lance.

Lancinated (imp. & p. p.) of Lanciname

Lancinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Lanciname

Lanciname (v. t.) To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.

Lancinating (a.) Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

Lancination (n.) A tearing; laceration.

Land (n.) Urine. See Lant.

Land (n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth; -- opposed to water as constituting a part of such surface, especially to oceans and seas; as, to sight land after a long voyage.

Land (n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract.

Land (n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.

Land (n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people.

Land (n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands.

Land (n.) The ground or floor.

Land (n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.

Land (n.) 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.

Land (n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.

Land (n.) 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.

Landed (imp. & p. p.) of Land

Landing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Land

Land (v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.

Land (v. t.) To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.

Land (v. t.) To set down after conveying; to cause to fall, alight, or reach; to bring to the end of a course; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

Land (v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.

Landamman (n.) A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.

Landamman (n.) The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.

Landau (n.) A four-wheeled covered vehicle, the top of which is divided into two sections which can be let down, or thrown back, in such a manner as to make an open carriage.

Landaulet (n.) A small landau.

Landed (a.) Having an estate in land.

Landed (a.) Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.

Lander (n.) One who lands, or makes a landing.

Lander (n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.

Landfall (n.) A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.

Landfall (n.) Sighting or making land when at sea.

Landflood (n.) An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.

Landgrave (n.) A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.

Landgraviate (n.) The territory held by a landgrave.

Landgraviate (n.) The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.

Landgravine (n.) The wife of a landgrave.

Landholder (n.) A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.

Landing (a.) Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.

Landing (n.) A going or bringing on shore.

Landing (n.) A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.

Landing (n.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.

Landladies (pl. ) of Landlady

Landlady (n.) A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.

Landlady (n.) The mistress of an inn or lodging house.

Landleaper (n.) See Landlouper.

Landless (a.) Having no property in land.

Landlock (v. t.) To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.

Landlocked (a.) Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.

Landlocked (a.) Confined to a fresh-water lake by reason of waterfalls or dams; -- said of fishes that would naturally seek the sea, after spawning; as, the landlocked salmon.

Landloper (n.) Same as Landlouper.

Landlord (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.

Landlord (n.) The master of an inn or of a lodging house.

Landlordism (n.) The state of being a landlord; the characteristics of a landlord; specifically, in Great Britain, the relation of landlords to tenants, especially as regards leased agricultural lands.

Landlordry (n.) The state of a landlord.

Landlouper (n.) A vagabond; a vagrant.

Landlouping (a.) Vagrant; wandering about.

Landlubber (n.) One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.

Landmen (pl. ) of Landman

Landman (n.) A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.

Landman (n.) An occupier of land.

Landmark (n.) A mark to designate the boundary of land; any , mark or fixed object (as a marked tree, a stone, a ditch, or a heap of stones) by which the limits of a farm, a town, or other portion of territory may be known and preserved.

Landmark (n.) Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.

Landowner (n.) An owner of land.

Landowning (n.) The owning of land.

Landowning (a.) Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners.

Land-poor (a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.

Landreeve (n.) A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.

Landscape (n.) A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.

Landscape (n.) A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc.

Landscape (n.) The pictorial aspect of a country.

Landscapist (n.) A painter of landscapes.

Landskip (n.) A landscape.

Landslip (n.) Alt. of Landslide

Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.

Landsmen (pl. ) of Landsman

Landsman (n.) One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.

Landsman (n.) A sailor on his first voyage.

Landstreight (n.) A narrow strip of land.

Landsturm (n.) That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.

Landtag (n.) The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.

Landwaiter (n.) See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.

Landward (adv. & a.) Toward the land.

Landwehr (n.) That part of the army, in Germany and Austria, which has completed the usual military service and is exempt from duty in time of peace, except that it is called out occasionally for drill.

Lane (a.) Alone.

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