land : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia; noted for its large colonies of penguins
  Adelie Coast; Terre Adelie.
  

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• noun landing an aircraft
  aircraft landing.
  

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• noun landing an aircraft
  aircraft landing.
  

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• noun a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion
  
  • MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines

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• forest land cleared of woods and brush.

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• noun an eroded and barren region in southwestern South Dakota and northwestern Nebraska
  Badlands.
  

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Bad" lands"

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1. Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata (Tertiary deposits) have been often eroded into fantastic forms, and much intersected by canons, and where lack of wood, water, and forage increases the difficulty of traversing the country, whence the name, first given by the Canadian French, Mauvaises Terres (bad lands).

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• noun the second great battle of the American Civil War (1862); the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory
  battle of Shiloh; Shiloh.
  

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• verb land on the underside without the landing gear
  

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• noun using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc.
  blind flying.
  

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• land on the frontiers of two adjoining countries; debatable land; often used figuratively; as, the border land of science.

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• . See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

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• (O. Eng. Law), land held by charter, or in socage; bookland.

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• noun an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality
  

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• noun a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea
  

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• noun a pasture subject to common use
  commons.
  

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• (Eng. Law), lands kept in demesne, that is, for the use of the lord and his family.

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• verb make an emergency landing
  crash land.
  

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• noun an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft)
  
• verb make an emergency landing
  crash land.
  

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• noun land that belongs to the Crown
  

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• land belonging to the crown, that is, to the sovereign.

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• noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
  cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; tilth; plowland; tillage.
  

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• noun United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
  Land; Din Land.
  

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• noun an amphibious diversionary attack
  

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• noun the solid part of the earth's surface
  land; terra firma; earth; solid ground; ground.
  
  • 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

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• noun United States inventor who incorporated Polaroid film into lenses and invented the one step photographic process (1909-1991)
  Land; Din Land.
  

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• noun an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control
  emergency landing.
  

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• noun a region of Antarctica between Queen Maud Land and Wilkes Land; claimed by Australia
  

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• swamp land.

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• a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. Burrill. See Concord, n., 4.

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• verb make a forced landing
  

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• noun an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control
  emergency landing.
  

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• . (a) Land allotted for the maintenance of any one. Obs. (b) One's adopted country.

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• land kept in grass and not tilled.

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• noun a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock
  pasture; pastureland; ley; lea.
  

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• noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
  Palestine; Canaan; Holy Land.
  

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• noun an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments
  

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• noun a person who is authorized to act as an agent for the sale of land
  real estate agent; house agent; estate agent; real estate broker.
  
  • in England they call a real estate agent a land agent
• noun a person who administers a landed estate
  

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• a person employed to sell or let land, to collect rents, and to attend to other money matters connected with land.

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• noun an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming)
  acreage.
  
  • he wanted some acreage to build on

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• a peculiar atmospheric brightness seen from sea over distant snow-covered land in arctic regions. See Ice blink.

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• a vehicle on wheels propelled by sails.

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• . See under Breeze.

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• . See Gunter's chain.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of various species of crabs which live much on the land, and resort to the water chiefly for the purpose of breeding. They are abundant in the West Indies and South America. Some of them grow to a large size.

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• noun of southwestern Europe; cultivated in Florida
  American watercress; Barbarea verna; early winter cress; American cress; Belle Isle cress; Barbarea praecox.
  

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• noun making an area of land more useful
  

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• a fish on land; a person quite out of place. Shak.

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• a military force serving on land, as distinguished from a naval force.

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• noun a grant of public land (as to a railway or college)
  

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• a field of ice adhering to the coast, in distinction from a floe.

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• (Zoöl.), any one of several species of blood-sucking leeches, which, in moist, tropical regions, live on land, and are often troublesome to man and beast.

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• noun a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits
  landline.
  
  • a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave

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• noun a large continuous extent of land
  landmass.
  

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• the system of measurement used in determining the area of land; also, a table of areas used in such measurement.

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• noun a unit of length equal to 1,760 yards or 5,280 feet; exactly 1609.344 meters
  mi; stat mi; statute mile; mile; international mile.
  

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• noun an explosive mine hidden underground; explodes when stepped on or driven over
  booby trap; ground-emplaced mine.
  

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• Scotland.

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• noun a state in southwestern United States on the Mexican border
  NM; New Mexico.
  

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• noun a midwestern state in north-central United States
  Prairie State; IL; Illinois.
  

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• sleep.

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• noun a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War
  AR; Arkansas.
  

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• in Bible history, Canaan: by extension, a better country or condition of which one has expectation.

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• a nickname sometimes given to the State of Connecticut.

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• noun a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted
  

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• a government office in which the entries upon, and sales of, public land are registered, and other business respecting the public lands is transacted. U.S.

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) The gray pike, or sauger. (b) The Menobranchus.

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• noun common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields
  Crex crex; corncrake.
  

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• . (Zoöl) (a) The crake or corncrake of Europe . See Crake. (b) An Australian rail (Hypotænidia Phillipensis); called also pectoral rail.

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• noun a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action)
  

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• noun natural resources in the form of arable land
  

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• a certificate that the purchase money for a certain portion of the public land has been paid to the officer entitled to receive it. U.S.

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• military service as distinguished from naval service.

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• a swindler of sailors on shore. Sailors' Cant

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• (a) That side of anything in or on the sea, as of an island or ship, which is turned toward the land . (b) The side of a plow which is opposite to the moldboard and which presses against the unplowed land.

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• noun the piece of land on which something is located (or is to be located)
  site.
  
  • a good site for the school

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• (Zoöl.), any snail which lives on land, as distinguished from the aquatic snails are Pulmonifera, and belong to the Geophila; but the operculated land snails of warm countries are Dioecia, and belong to the Tænioglossa. See Geophila, and Helix.

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• a descent of cloud and water in a conical form during the occurrence of a tornado and heavy rainfall on land.

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• a person who acts for another in the management of land, collection of rents, etc.

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• noun a capital tax on property imposed by municipalities; based on the estimated value of the property
  property tax.
  

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• noun the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
  tenure.
  

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• (Zoöl.), any tortoise that habitually lives on dry land, as the box tortoise. See Tortoise.

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• verb block with earth, as after a landslide
  earth up.
  
• verb finally be or do something
  finish; wind up; fetch up; end up; finish up.
  
  • He ended up marrying his high school sweetheart
  • he wound up being unemployed and living at home again

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• a certificate from the Land Office, authorizing a person to assume ownership of a public land. U.S.

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• Same as Land breeze (above).

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• in Bible history, Egypt; by extension, a place or condition of special oppression.

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• (Naut.), a sailor's cry in announcing sight of land.

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• noun very large and profitable volume of commercial activity
  

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Land"-poor` adjective

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1. Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. Colloq.

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• noun extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
  land; demesne; estate; acres.
  
  • the family owned a large estate on Long Island

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• noun the gentry who own land (considered as a class)
  squirearchy.
  

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• noun the approach to a landing field by an airplane
  

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• noun naval craft designed for putting ashore troops and equipment
  

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• noun the upper deck of an aircraft carrier; used as a runway
  flight deck.
  

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• noun a place where planes take off and land
  airfield; flying field; field.
  

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• noun a flap on the underside of the wing that is lowered to slow the plane for landing
  

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• noun an undercarriage that supports the weight of the plane when it is on the ground
  

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• noun a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water
  

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• noun a part of a ship's company organized for special duties ashore
  

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• noun structure providing a place where boats can land people or goods
  landing.
  

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• noun one of two parts of the landing gear of a helicopter
  

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• noun platform from which passengers and cargo can be (un)loaded
  

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• noun an airfield without normal airport facilities
  flight strip; airstrip; strip.
  

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• noun a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law); today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process
  
  • the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land'

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• due process of law; the general law of the land.

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• (Law), land held by lease for the term of a life or lives.

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• noun an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence
  lotusland.
  

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• land produced accumulation of aquatic plants, forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the water is grained off or retained in its pores.

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• noun the country where you were born
  motherland; country of origin; mother country; fatherland; homeland.
  

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• noun a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination
  dreamland; dreamworld.
  

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• land ckeared and cultivated for the first time.

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• noun an unoccupied area between the front lines of opposing armies
  
• noun land that is unowned and uninhabited (and usually undesirable)
  
• noun the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
  twilight zone.
  
  • but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal
  • in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity
  • in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression

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No"-man's` land`

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1. (Naut.) A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc.; a space on a ship belonging to no one in particular to care for.
2. Fig.: An unclaimed space or time.

   That no-man's land of twilight. W. Black.

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• noun an extended area of land
  piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel; tract.
  

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• noun an extended area of land
  piece of ground; parcel of land; parcel; tract.
  

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• noun a small area of ground covered by specific vegetation
  plot; patch; plot of ground.
  
  • a bean plot
  • a cabbage patch
  • a briar patch

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• noun a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds
  Polaroid camera.
  

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• noun an ancient country in southwestern Asia on the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea; a place of pilgrimage for Christianity and Islam and Judaism
  Palestine; Canaan; Holy Land.
  
• noun any place of complete bliss and delight and peace
  heaven; Eden; nirvana; Shangri-la; paradise.
  
• noun the goal towards which Christians strive
  

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• . See Land of promise, under Land.

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• noun a region of Antarctica between Enderby Land and the Weddell Sea; claimed by Norway
  

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Ta"ble-land` noun

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1. A broad, level, elevated area of land; a plateau.

   The toppling crags of Duty scaled, Are close upon the shining table-lands To which our God himself is moon and sun. Tennyson.

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• an association, organized in Dublin in 1879, to promote the interests of the Irish tenantry, its avowed objects being to secure fixity of tenure fair rent, and free sale of the tenants' interest. It was declared illegal by Parliament, but vigorous prosecutions have failed to suppress it.

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• sleep.

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• noun a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time
  

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• noun arable land that is worked by plowing and sowing and raising crops
  cultivated land; farmland; ploughland; tilth; plowland; tillage.
  

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• (Law), to enter into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, and before the heir takes possession. See Abatement, 4.

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• (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.

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• (Naut.), to approach the land.

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• to keep at a distance from it.

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• to hug the shore.

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• (Naut.), to cause it to disappear below the horizon, by sailing away from it.

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• (Naut.), to sight land.

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• to leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in plowing.

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• to see by the compass how the land bears from the ship.

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• (Naut.), to cause it to sink, or appear lower, by receding from it.

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• to hide the land, as when fog, or an intervening island, obstructs the view.

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• noun a mountainous area of Antarctica bounded by the Ross Sea and Wilkes Land
  

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• a tough clayey soil, of a whitish hue when dry, but blackish after rain. Eng.

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• . (a) Land not cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultivation. (b) Land which is not settled and cultivated.

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• noun a coastal region of Antarctica on the Indian Ocean to the south of Australia; most of the territory is claimed by Australia
  

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• land that has become exhausted by tillage, or which for any reason has lost its fertility.

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• . See Yardland.

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