a person to assume ownership of a public land. [U.S.] — Land wind. Same as Land breeze — To
make land (Naut.), to sight land. To set the land, to see by the compass how the land bears from
the ship. — To shut in the land, to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the
view.
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.
I 'll undertake to land them on our coast.
Shak. 2. To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
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.
Land
(Land), v. i. To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
Landamman
(Lan"dam*man) n. [G. Landamman; land land, country + amimann bailiff. See Land,
and Ambassador.]
1. A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
2. The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Landau
(Lan"dau) n. [From the town Ladau in Germany; cf. F. landau. See Land, Island.] 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. [Written also landaw.]
Landaulet
(Lan`dau*let") n. [Cf. F. landaulet, dim, of landau. See Landau.] A small landau.
Landed
(Land"ed) a.
1. Having an estate in land.
The House of Commons must consist, for the most part, of landed men.
Addison. 2. Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.
Lander
(Land"er) n.
1. One who lands, or makes a landing. "The lander in a lonely isle." Tennyson.
2. (Mining) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
Landfall
(Land"fall) n.
1. A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
2. (Naut.) Sighting or making land when at sea.
A good landfall (Naut.), the sighting of land in conformity with the navigator's reckoning and expectation.
Landflood
(Land"flood`) n. An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
