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Landgravine
() The wife of a landgrave.
Landholder
() A holder, owner, or proprietor of land.
Landing
() Of, pertaining to or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore.
Landing
() A going or bringing on shore.
Landing
() A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc.
Landing
() The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another.
Landladies
() of Landlady
Landlady
() A woman having real estate which she leases to a tenant or tenants.
Landlady
() The mistress of an inn or lodging house.
Landleaper
() See Landlouper.
Landless
() Having no property in land.
Landlock
() To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
Landlocked
() Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, by land.
Landlocked
() 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
() Same as Landlouper.
Landlord
() The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants.
Landlord
() The master of an inn or of a lodging house.
Landlordism
() 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
() The state of a landlord.
Landlouper
() A vagabond; a vagrant.
Landlouping
() Vagrant; wandering about.
Landlubber
() One who passes his life on land; -- so called among seamen in contempt or ridicule.
Landmen
() of Landman
Landman
() A man who lives or serves on land; -- opposed to seaman.
Landman
() An occupier of land.
Landmark
() 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
() Any conspicuous object on land that serves as a guide; some prominent object, as a hill or steeple.
Landowner
() An owner of land.
Landowning
() The owning of land.
Landowning
() Having property in land; of or pertaining to landowners.
Land-poor
() Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land.
Landreeve
() A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
Landscape
() A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains.
Landscape
() 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
() The pictorial aspect of a country.
Landscapist
() A painter of landscapes.
Landskip
() A landscape.
Landslip
() Alt. of Landslide
Landslide
() The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
Landslide
() The land which slips down.
Landsmen
() of Landsman
Landsman
() One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
Landsman
() A sailor on his first voyage.
Landstreight
() A narrow strip of land.
Landsturm
() That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
Landtag
() The diet or legislative body; as, the Landtag of Prussia.
Landwaiter
() See Landing waiter, under Landing, a.
Landward
() Toward the land.
Landwehr
() 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
() Alone.
