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Word Meanings - AGRARIANISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An equal or equitable division of landed property; the principles or acts of those who favor a redistribution of land.

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  • LANDLOCK
    To inclose, or nearly inclose, as a harbor or a vessel, with land.
  • FAVOR
    Partiality; bias. Bouvier. 9. A letter or epistle; -- so called in civility or compliment; as, your favor of yesterday is received. 10. pl. (more info) L. favor, fr. favere to be favorable, cf. Skr. bhavaya to further, foster, causative of bhBe.
  • LANDSTHING
    See BELOW
  • LANDSKIP
    A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
  • EQUALIZER
    One who, or that which, equalizes anything.
  • DIVISIONARY
    Divisional.
  • LANDSMAN
    A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
  • FAVORITE
    Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. Farquhar. (more info) p.p. of OF. favorir, cf. It. favorito, frm. favorita, fr. favorire to 1. A person or thing regarded with peculiar favor; one treated with
  • DIVISIONALLY
    So as to be divisional.
  • THOSE
    The plural of that. See That.
  • FAVORABLE
    1. Full of favor; favoring; manifesting partiality; kind; propitious; friendly. Lend favorable ears to our request. Shak. Lord, thou hast been favorable unto thy land. Ps. lxxxv. 1. 2. Conducive; contributing; tending to promote or facilitate;
  • EQUALIZE
    1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely
  • LANDREEVE
    A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
  • FAVOREDNESS
    Appearance.
  • LANDFLOOD
    An overflowing of land by river; an inundation; a freshet. Clarendon.
  • LANDWARD
    Toward the land.
  • PROPERTY
    All the adjuncts of a play except the scenery and the dresses of the actors; stage requisites. I will draw a bill of properties. Shak. 6. Propriety; correctness. Camden. Literary property. See under Literary. -- Property man, one who has charge
  • LANDGRAVIATE
    1. The territory held by a landgrave. 2. The office, jurisdiction, or authority of a landgrave.
  • EQUALITY
    Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under
  • GREENLANDER
    A native of Greenland.
  • ROSLAND
    heathy land; land full of heather; moorish or watery land.
  • ENGARLAND
    To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
  • GLANDULAR
    Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
  • MALANDERS
    A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
  • COWPER'S GLANDS
    Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
  • GARLANDLESS
    Destitute of a garland. Shelley.
  • SPATHOSE
    See SPATHIC
  • HEADLAND
    1. A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water. "Sow the headland with wheat." Shak. 2. A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence. Tusser.
  • GLANDULOSITY
    Quality of being glandulous; a collection of glands. Sir T. Browne.
  • BLANDLY
    In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.
  • BLANDNESS
    The state or quality of being bland.
  • FORELAND
    A piece of ground between the wall of a place and the moat. Farrow. (more info) 1. A promontory or cape; a headland; as, the North and South Foreland in Kent, England.
  • LAYLAND
    Land lying untilled; fallow ground. Blount.
  • UNEQUALABLE
    Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle.
  • SLANDEROUS
    1. Given or disposed to slander; uttering slander. "Slanderous tongue." Shak. 2. Embodying or containing slander; calumnious; as, slanderous words, speeches, or reports. -- Slan"der*ous*ly, adv. -- Slan"der*ous*ness, n.

 

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