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.
Related words: (words related to AGRARIANISM)
- 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.