Lancet-window. The Hive Sisters,, 
lance-throw 
lance-throw (lans'thro), n. The distance a 
lance or javeliu may be thrown. 
lancet-pointed (lan'set-poin"ted), a. In arch., 
pointed in lancet form, as a lancet-window. 
At Lincoln Lancet- Pointed work is again preponderant. 
The Century, XXXVI. 685. 
lancet-window (Ian'set-win"d6), . A high and 
narrow window, terminating in an ar<-h acutely 
pointed or formed 
of curves of long 
radius (the center 
falling outside of 
the arch), and re- 
sembling a lancet 
in shape. Windows 
of this form are a 
marked characteris- 
tic of the architecture 
of the first half of the 
thirteenth century, 
and are especially 
common in England 
and Scotland. They 
are often double or 
triple, and some- 
times a greater num- 
ber than three lancets 
are found together, as 
in the group called 
the Five Sisters in 
the transept of York 
cathedral. Of ten call- 
ed simply lancet. 
lancewood (lans'- 
wild), . A name 
of several trees 
and of their wood. 
The best-known of the 
trees is Duguetia qui- 
tarensis, the wood of 
which is exported 
from Guiana and 
Cuba. The wood is Y ork Minster, England. 
tough and elastic, and 
is used for carriage-shafts, surveyors' rods, cabinet-work, 
etc. It is of a light-yellow color, and resembles boxwood, 
for which it often passes. Other lancewoods are Bocagea 
(OiMtteria)virgata of the West Indies and South America, 
and Rollinia multiflora and K. longifolia. The lancewood 
of Florida is Nectandra WUldenovii; that of South Africa, 
Guatteria Ca/ra; that of Australia, Badchmisia australis; 
and that of New Zealand, Panax (Aralia) crasstfolitmi. 
The black lancewood of the West Indies is the boragina- 
ceous tree Tournefortia. laurtfolia. 
lanch, v. and n. See launch. 
lanchara, n. See lantclta. 
lanciers, n.pl [F.] See lancer, 4. 
lanciferous (lan-sif'e-rus), . [< ML. lancifer, 
a, soldier armed witti'a lance, < L. lancea, lance. 
+ferre = E. Sear*.] Bearing a lance. Blount. 
[Rare.] 
lanciform (Ian'gi-f6rm), a. [< L. lattcea, lance, 
+ forma, form.] Spear-shaped; lance-shaped; 
lanceolate, 
lancinate (lan'si-nat), r. t. ; pret. and pp. lan- 
cinated, ppr. lancinating. [< L. Janeinatiig, pp. 
of lancinare, tear, rend, lacerate ; akin to laniarc, 
tear, lacerate, and to lacer, torn: see lacerate, 
laniate.~] To tear ; lacerate Lancinating pain, 
a sudden, sharp, shooting pain, as in cancer. 
lancination (lan-si-na'shon), . [< lancinate + 
-MM.] If. Laceration; wounding. 2. Sharp, 
shooting pain. 
With what affections and lanciiiations of spirit, with 
what effusions of love, J esus prayed. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835X I. 25. 
3f. A cutting in or into ; au indentation. 
Undoubtedly Judah's portion made many incisures and 
laminations in to the tribe of Simeon, hindering the entire- 
ness thereof. Fuller, Pisgah Sight, V. i. 12. 
Lancret's theorem. See theorem. 
land 1 (land), n. [< ME. land, lond, < AS. land, 
lond = OS. OFries. LX MLG. LG. land, OHG. 
MHG. lant, land, G. Icel. Dan. Sw. Goth, land, 
land, country. There are no appar. connections 
outside of Teut. The P. lande, a heath, etc., is 
perhaps of other origin : see lands, laund 1 .'] 1. 
The solid substa,nce of the earth's surface ; any 
part of the continuous surface of the solid ma- 
terials constituting the body of the globe : as, 
dry or submerged Zd; mountain ordeserttowrf. 
The barrez of vche a bonk ful bigly me haldes 
That I may lachche no lont. 
Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), iii. 3*2. 
God said, Let ... the dry land appear : and it was BO. 
And God called the dry land Earth. Gen. i. 9, 10. 
2. The exposed part of the earth's surface, as 
distinguished from the submerged part ; dry or 
solid ground: as, to travel by land and water; 
to spy land from the masthead. 
Ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte. 
Mat. xxiii. 15. 
3. A part of the earth's surface distinguished 
in any way from other parts; a country, divi- 
sion, or tract considered as the home of a per- 
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son or a people, or marked off by ethnical, 
physical, or moral characteristics: as, one's 
native land; the land of the midnight sun; the 
land of the citron and myrtle. 
Engelond ys a wel god lond, ich wene of eche lond best, 
Y set in the ende of the world, as al in the West. 
Hob. of Gloucester, p. 1. 
Breathes there a man with soul so dead 
Who never to himself hath said, 
Thisismyown, my native land! 
Scott, L. of L. M., vL L 
A land of hops and poppy-mingled corn, 
Little about it stirring save a brook. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
4f. The country; the rural regions; in general, 
distant regions. 
To here hem synge . . . 
In swete accord, "my lief is faren on londe." 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 69. 
5. Ground considered as a subject of use or 
possession ; earth ; soil. In law, land signifies any 
ground forming part of the earth's surface which can be 
held as individual property, whether soil or rock, or wa- 
ter-covered, and everything annexed to it, whether by 
nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as 
buildings, fences, etc. In contemplation of law the fee 
simple in land includes a right of an indefinite extent up- 
ward as well as downward toward the center of the earth. 
For no londes, hut for loue, loke ge be wedded. 
Piers Plouman (B), ix. 176. 
Thy lands and goods 
Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate. 
Shot., M. of V., iv. 1. 310. 
6f. A strip of land left unbroken in a plowed 
field; the space between two furrows. 
Faith on hym hadde furst a sight, ac he fleih a-syde, 
And wolde not neyhle [nigh] him by nyne towtatlengthe. 
Piers Plowman (C), xx. 58. 
Another [groom] who had a box, wherein was money, 
apparell, and other things of value, left it in a land of 
standing corne. 
Apprehension ofCavalliers at Brackley in Northamptonshire 
[(1642), p. 7. (Dames.) 
Hence 7. (a) That part of the inner surface 
of a rifle which lies between the grooves. 
In the ordinary mode of grooving rifles, sharp angles 
are left between the grooves and land (those parts of the 
smooth bore left in their original state after the process 
of grooving has been completed). Ure, Diet, II. 391. 
(b) In a millstone, the plane surface between 
two furrows, (c) The smooth uncut part of the 
face-plate of a slide-valve in a steam-engine. 
(d) The lap of the strakes in a clincher-built 
boat. Also called landing. E. H. Knight. 8. 
In some cities in Scotland, a group of separate 
dwellings under one roof and having a com- 
mon entry ; a dwelling-house divided into tene- 
ments for different families, each tenement be- 
ing called a house, and the whole a land, or a 
land of houses. 
The houses were piled to an enormous height, some 
of them amounting to twelve storeys. These were de- 
nominated lands. 
Arnot, Hist. Edinburgh, p. 241. (Jamieson.) 
Accommodation lands. See accommodation. Allot- 
ment of land. See allotment. Arable lands. See 
arable. Bad lands, certain lands of the northwestern 
United States characterized by an almost entire absence 
of natural vegetation, and by the varied and fantastic 
forms into which the soft strata have been eroded. At 
a little distance they appear like fields of desolate ruins. 
The name was first applied in its French form, mau- 
vaises terres, to a Tertiary area (Miocene) in the region of 
the Black Hills in South Dakota, along the White river, 
a tributary of the Upper Missouri. Blowing lands. See 
blowing^. Boll Of land, about a Scotch acre. Bond 
for land. See bondi. Bounty Land Act. See bounty. 
Certificate lands, common land, crown lands, 
debatable land. See the qualifying words. Conceal- 
ed land. Same as concealment, 5. Demesne lands. 
See demesne, and crown lands (under croum\ Donation 
lands. See donation. Enfranchisement of copyhold 
lands. See enfranchisement. Easart land See assart 
Fabric lands. See fabric. Fardel of landt. See 
fardelv. Firm land (Latin terra firma), solid ground; dry 
land as distinguished from the sea or other water-surface. 
Fiscal lands, green land, etc. See the adjectives. 
Holy land. See the Holy Land, below. Improvement 
Of Land Act, an English statute of 1864 (27 and 28 Viet., 
c. 114), extended by the Settled Land Act (which see, be- 
low), providing for drainage, irrigation, reclamation, and 
clearing of land, and the construction of embankments, 
weirs, jetties, etc., on streams, tidal waters, etc. Under 
this legislation the respective rights and interests of ten- 
ants for life and tenants in remainder in such cases are 
also provided for. Jack's land. See /<*!.- Land Act. 
See Landlord and Tenant Act, under landlord. Lands 
Clauses Consolidation Act, an English statute of 1845 
(8 and 9 Viet., c. 18) which collected the provisions usu- 
ally introduced into acts of Parliament relating to the 
acquisition of and compensation to be made for lands re- 
oulred for undertakings or works of a public nature, for 
the purpose of avoiding the necessity of repeating them 
in similar acts. Amended in 1860 (23 and 24 Viet., c. 106) 
and 1869 (32 and 33 Viet., c. 18). Land League See 
<<'!iuei. Land office, in the United States and the Brit- 
ish colonies, an office for the transaction of business re- 
lating to the location and settlement of public lands. In 
the United States the General Land Office is a government 
bureau established in 1812, originally connected with the 
Treasury, but since 1849 forming a division of the Depart- 
landaulet 
ment of the Interior. Its head is styled the Commissioner 
of the General Land Office, whose duties are to perform or 
supervise, under the direction of the Secretary of the In- 
terior, all executive acts appertaining to the surveying and 
sale of the public lands. His province includes also the 
adjustment of private land-claims, and the issue of patents 
for land, which are signed by the President, countersigned 
by the recorder of the General Land Office, and recorded 
there. Local land offices are established at suitable points 
to'facilitate the disposal of lands \\ it Inn the public domain. 
Land of the leal See leal Land-service gun. See 
guni. Land-transfer Act, un English statute of 1875 (38 
and 39 Viet., c. 87) which superseded the Transfer of Land 
Act of 1862, and further simplified titles and conveyancing. 
See Transfer of Land Act, below. Law of the land. See 
lawi. Lay of the land. See layi No-man's Land. 
same as fog-bank, 2. Purchase of Land (Ireland) Act, 
an English statute of 1S85 (48 and 49 Viet., c. 73) facilitat- 
ing the sale of land to occupying tenants in Ireland by au- 
thorizing the Land Commission to advance money to them. 
Red land, ground turned up with the plow. [Scotch.] 
Settled Land Act. See setae. The Holy Land, Judea 
or Palestine: socalled from its sacred associations as the 
scene of development of the Jewish and Christian religions. 
To be or dwell upon landt, to dwell in the country. 
With thise reliques whan that he fond 
A poure persoun dweUyng upon lond, 
Upon a day he gat him more moneye 
Than that the persoun gat in monthes tweye. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 702. 
To clear the land, to close with the land, to enter 
lauds. See the verbs. To keep the land aboard (naut. ). 
Seeodoordi. Tolay the land. See tayi. To lie along 
the land. See Net. To make the land, or to make 
land (naut.\ to discover or make out land as the ship 
approaches it, To raise the land (/"'"'. X to sail toward 
it until it appears to be raised out of the water. To 
set the land (naut.), to observe by the compass how 
the shore bears from the ship. To shut in the land 
(naut.), to lose sight of the land by the intervention of fog 
or a point or promontory. Transfer of Land Act, an 
English statute of 1862 (25 and 26 Viet., c. 53) which estab- 
lished a registry of title and simplified the conveyance of 
land. See Land-transfer Act, above. Wild land, land not 
cultivated, or in a state that renders it unfit for cultiva- 
tion ; land lying waste or unoccupied. (See alaogafol-land, 
grass-land, lammas-land, yard-land.) 
land 1 (land), v. [< ME. landen, leaden, < AS. 
lenaan, come to land, arrive, gelendan, gelanidan, 
intr. come to land, arrive, tr. endow with land 
(= D. landen = G. landen = Dan. lande = Sw. 
landa, land), < land, land: see land 1 , n. See 
lend 2 , an older form of the verb.] I. trans. 1. 
To put on or bring to shore ; disembark ; de- 
bark; transfer to land in any way: as, to land 
troops or goods; to land a fish. 
On the Irish shore, 
Where the cannons did roar, 
With many stout lads she was landed. 
The Woman Warrior (Child's Ballads, VII. 258). 
Trust me, I have another bite. Come, scholar, come, 
lay down your rod, and help me to land this as you did 
the other. /. Walton, Complete Angler, p. 98. 
Hence 2. To bring to a point of stoppage or 
rest; bring to the end of a journey, or a course 
of any kind. 
All those that go to heaven are the purchase of such un- 
dertakings [conversion to Christianity], the fruit of such 
culture and labours ; for it is only a holy life that lands 
us there. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 4. 
One chair after another landed ladies at the Baroness's 
door. Thackeray, Virginians, xxvii. 
3. Naut., to rest, as a cask or spar, on the deck 
or elsewhere, by lowering with a rope or tackle. 
II. intrans. I. To go ashore from a ship or 
boat; disembark. 
Landing at Syracuse, we tarried there three days. 
Acts xxviii. 12. 
2. To come to land or shore ; touch at a wharf 
or other landing-place, as a boat or steamer. 
Beneath yon cliff they stand, 
To show the freighted pinnace where to land. 
Crabbe, Works, I. 7. 
3. To arrive ; come to a stop : as, I landed at 
his house ; the wagon landed in a ditch. 
Popular government in England, as in Norway, has over- 
shot the mark and is landing in mob-rule. 
Nineteenth Century, XXIII. 67. 
Iand 2 t (land), n. [E. dial, also lant; < ME. 
'land, < AS. hland, hlond (rare) = Icel. hland, 
urine.] Urine. Grose. 
Iand 3 t, w. See found 1 . 
landau (lan'da), n. [Cf . G. landmter, a landau : 
so called from Landau, a town in Germany, 
where such carriages were first made.] A two- 
seated carriage having the top in two parts, the 
rear part pivoted and arranged to fold down 
behind the back seat, and the front part admit- 
ting of removal. Two styles are made the leather- 
quarter landau, with leather sides, and the ylau-front lan- 
dau, of which the front is framed with glass. 
She [the Queen] travelled in an open landau. Alderman 
Wood sitting by her side and Lady Ann Hamilton and an- 
other woman opposite. Greville, Memoirs, June 7, 1820. 
landaulet (lan-da-lef), [< landau + -let.~\ 
A form of coup6 or one-seated carriage with a 
landau top. Also called dcmi-landau. 
