land

land
    n 1: the land on which real estate is located; "he built the
         house on land leased from the city"
    2: material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in
       which plants can grow (especially with reference to its
       quality or use); "the land had never been plowed"; "good
       agricultural soil" [syn: {land}, {ground}, {soil}]
    3: territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his
       domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the
       land" [syn: {domain}, {demesne}, {land}]
    4: the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away
       from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for
       several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" [syn:
       {land}, {dry land}, {earth}, {ground}, {solid ground}, {terra
       firma}]
    5: the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land
       of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" [syn:
       {country}, {state}, {land}]
    6: a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled
       kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of
       the realm of cotton in the south" [syn: {kingdom}, {land},
       {realm}]
    7: extensive landed property (especially in the country)
       retained by the owner for his own use; "the family owned a
       large estate on Long Island" [syn: {estate}, {land}, {landed
       estate}, {acres}, {demesne}]
    8: the people who live in a nation or country; "a statement that
       sums up the nation's mood"; "the news was announced to the
       nation"; "the whole country worshipped him" [syn: {nation},
       {land}, {country}]
    9: a politically organized body of people under a single
       government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African
       nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol";
       "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized
       land" [syn: {state}, {nation}, {country}, {land},
       {commonwealth}, {res publica}, {body politic}]
    10: United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into
        lenses and invented the one step photographic process
        (1909-1991) [syn: {Land}, {Din Land}, {Edwin Herbert Land}]
    11: agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life;
        "farming is a strenuous life"; "there's no work on the land
        any more" [syn: {farming}, {land}]
    v 1: reach or come to rest; "The bird landed on the highest
         branch"; "The plane landed in Istanbul" [syn: {land}, {set
         down}]
    2: cause to come to the ground; "the pilot managed to land the
       airplane safely" [syn: {land}, {put down}, {bring down}]
    3: bring into a different state; "this may land you in jail"
       [syn: {bring}, {land}]
    4: bring ashore; "The drug smugglers landed the heroin on the
       beach of the island"
    5: deliver (a blow); "He landed several blows on his opponent's
       head"
    6: arrive on shore; "The ship landed in Pearl Harbor" [syn:
       {land}, {set ashore}, {shore}]
    7: shoot at and force to come down; "the enemy landed several of
       our aircraft" [syn: {down}, {shoot down}, {land}]
    

Land \Land\ (l[a^]nd), n.
   Urine. See {Lant}. [Obs.]
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Land \Land\, n. [AS. land, lond; akin to D., G., Icel., Sw.,
   Dan., and Goth. land. ]
   1. 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.
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            They turn their heads to sea, their sterns to land.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. 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.
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            Go view the land, even Jericho.       --Josh. ii. 1.
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            Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
            Where wealth accumulates and men decay. --Goldsmith.
    

Land \Land\, v. i.
   1. To come to the end of a course; to arrive at a
      destination, literally or figuratively; as, he landed in
      trouble; after hithchiking for a week, he landed in Los
      Angeles.
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   2. Specifically: To go on shore from a ship or boat; to
      disembark.
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   3. Specifically: To reach and come to rest on land after
      having been in the air; as, the arrow landed in a flower
      bed; the golf ball landed in a sand trap; our airplane
      landed in Washington.
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Land \Land\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Landed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Landing}.]
   1. To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft;
      to disembark; to debark.
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            I 'll undertake to land them on our coast. --Shak.
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   2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a
      fish.
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   3. 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.
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   4. Specifically: (Aeronautics) To pilot (an airplane) from
      the air onto the land; as, to land the plane on a highway.
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LAND, n.  A part of the earth's surface, considered as property.  The
theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control
is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the
superstructure.  Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some
have the right to prevent others from living; for the right to own
implies the right exclusively to occupy; and in fact laws of trespass
are enacted wherever property in land is recognized.  It follows that
if the whole area of _terra firma_ is owned by A, B and C, there will
be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to
exist.

    A life on the ocean wave,
        A home on the rolling deep,
    For the spark the nature gave
        I have there the right to keep.

    They give me the cat-o'-nine
        Whenever I go ashore.
    Then ho! for the flashing brine --
        I'm a natural commodore!
                                                                 Dodle
    

LAND. This term comprehends any found, soil or earth whatsoever, as meadows, 
pastures, woods, waters, marshes, furze and heath. It has an indefinite 
extent upwards as well as downwards; therefore land, legally includes all 
houses and other buildings standing or built on it; and whatever is in a 
direct line between the surface and the centre of the earth, such as mines 
of metals and fossils. 1 Inst. 4 a; Wood's Inst. 120; 2 B1. Com. 18; 1 
Cruise on Real Prop. 58. In a more confined sense, the word land is said to 
denote "frank tenement at the least." Shep. To. 92. In this sense, then, 
leaseholds cannot be said to be included under the word lands. 8 Madd. Rep. 
635. The technical sense of the word land is farther explained by Sheppard, 
in his Touch. p. 88, thus: "if one be seised of some lands in fee, and 
possessed of other lands for years, all in one parish, and he grant all his 
lands in that parish (without naming them) in fee simple or for life; by 
this grant shall pass no, more but the lands he hath in fee simple." It is 
also said that land in its legal acceptation means arable land. 11 Co. 55 a. 
See also Cro. Car. 293; 2 P. Wms. 458, n.; 5 Ves. 476; 20 Vin. Ab. 203. 
     2. Land, as above observed, includes in general all the buildings 
erected upon it; 9 Day, R. 374; but to this general rule there are some 
exceptions. It is true, that if a stranger voluntarily erect buildings on 
another's land, they will belong to the owner of the land, and will become a 
part of it; 16 Mass. R. 449; yet cases are, not wanting where it has been 
decided that such an erection, under peculiar circumstances, would be 
considered as personal property. 4 Mass. R. 514; 8 Pick. R. 283, 402; 5 
Pick, R. 487; 6 N. H. Rep. 555; 2 Fairf. R. 371; 1 Dana, R. 591; 1 Burr. 
144. 
    

204 Moby Thesaurus words for "land":
      acquire, acreage, acres, airspace, alight, ally, archduchy,
      archdukedom, area, arrive, bag, belt, berth, body politic,
      buffer state, captive nation, capture, catch, chattels real,
      chieftaincy, chieftainry, city-state, climb down, colony,
      come down, come in, come to land, commonweal, commonwealth,
      confines, continental shelf, corridor, country, county, crash-land,
      debark, debus, demesne, department, deplane, descend, detrain,
      dirt, disembark, disemplane, dismount, district, ditch, division,
      dock, domain, dominion, downwind, drop anchor, dry land, duchy,
      dukedom, earldom, earth, empery, empire, enmesh, ensnare, entangle,
      entrap, environs, estate, fatherland, foul, free city, get,
      get down, get off, go ashore, grand duchy, ground, grounds,
      harpoon, heartland, hinterland, homeland, honor, hook, kingdom,
      landed property, lands, lasso, level off, light, loam, lot, lots,
      make a landfall, make land, make port, mandant, mandate,
      mandated territory, mandatee, mandatory, manor, mesh, messuage,
      milieu, moor, motherland, mould, nail, nation, nationality,
      native land, neighborhood, net, noose, obtain, offshore rights,
      overshoot, pancake, parcel, part, parts, perch, place, plat, plot,
      polis, polity, possession, power, praedium, precincts, premises,
      principality, principate, property, protectorate, province,
      puppet government, puppet regime, purlieus, put in, put into port,
      quadrat, quarter, reach land, real estate, real property, realm,
      realty, region, republic, roost, rope, sack, salient, satellite,
      section, secure, seneschalty, set down, settle, settle down,
      settle on, settle upon, settlement, sit, snag, snare, sniggle, sod,
      soil, solid ground, sovereign nation, space, spear, state,
      sultanate, superpower, take, take captive, talk down, tangle,
      tangle up with, tenements, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory,
      three-mile limit, tie up, toft, toparchia, toparchy, touch down,
      trap, turf, twelve-mile limit, unboat, unhorse, upwind, vicinage,
      vicinity, win, zone