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Lanceolate
() Alt. of Lanceolated
Lanceolated
() Rather narrow, tapering to a point at the apex, and sometimes at the base also; as, a lanceolate leaf.
Lancepesade
() An assistant to a corporal; a private performing the duties of a corporal; -- called also lance corporal.
Lancer
() 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
() A lancet.
Lancer
() A set of quadrilles of a certain arrangement.
Lancet
() A surgical instrument of various forms, commonly sharp-pointed and two-edged, used in venesection, and in opening abscesses, etc.
Lancet
() An iron bar used for tapping a melting furnace.
Lancewood
() 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
() of Lanch
Lanching
() of Lanch
Lanch
() To throw, as a lance; to let fly; to launch.
Lanciferous
() Bearing a lance.
Lanciform
() Having the form of a lance.
Lancinated
() of Lanciname
Lancinating
() of Lanciname
Lanciname
() To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab.
Lancinating
() Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).
Lancination
() A tearing; laceration.
Land
() Urine. See Lant.
Land
() 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
() 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
() Ground, in respect to its nature or quality; soil; as, wet land; good or bad land.
Land
() The inhabitants of a nation or people.
Land
() The mainland, in distinction from islands.
Land
() The ground or floor.
Land
() The ground left unplowed between furrows; any one of several portions into which a field is divided for convenience in plowing.
Land
() 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
() The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat; the lap of plates in an iron vessel; -- called also landing.
Land
() 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
() of Land
Landing
() of Land
Land
() To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft; to disembark; to debark.
Land
() To catch and bring to shore; to capture; as, to land a fish.
Land
() 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
() To go on shore from a ship or boat; to disembark; to come to the end of a course.
Landamman
() A chief magistrate in some of the Swiss cantons.
Landamman
() The president of the diet of the Helvetic republic.
Landau
() 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
() A small landau.
Landed
() Having an estate in land.
Landed
() Consisting in real estate or land; as, landed property; landed security.
Lander
() One who lands, or makes a landing.
Lander
() A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.
Landfall
() A sudden transference of property in land by the death of its owner.
Landfall
() Sighting or making land when at sea.
Landflood
() An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet.
Landgrave
() A German nobleman of a rank corresponding to that of an earl in England and of a count in France.
Landgraviate
() The territory held by a landgrave.
Landgraviate
() The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.