Word Meanings - SOCMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who holds lands or tenements by socage; a socager. Cowell.

Related words: (words related to SOCMAN)

• LANDSTHING
  See BELOW
• LANDSKIP
  A landscape. Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. Milton.
• LANDSMAN
  A sailor on his first voyage. (more info) 1. One who lives on the land; -- opposed to seaman.
• LANDSCAPE
  land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual
• SOCAGER
  A tennant by socage; a socman.
• LANDSTREIGHT
  A narrow strip of land.
• LANDSTURM
  That part of the reserve force in Germany which is called out last.
• LANDSTORM
  See VARNPLIGTIGE
• LANDSLIP; LANDSLIDE
  1. The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc. 2. The land which slips down.
• SOCAGE
  A tenure of lands and tenements by a certain or determinate service; a tenure distinct from chivalry or knight's service, in which the obligations were uncertain. The service must be certain, in order to be denominated socage, as to hold by fealty
• LANDSCAPIST
  A painter of landscapes.
• COWPER'S GLANDS
  Two small glands discharging into the male urethra.
• HOLLANDS
  See HOLLAND (more info) 1. Gin made in Holland. 2. pl.
• BAD LANDS
  Barren regions, especially in the western United States, where horizontal strata 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
• LIEBERKUHN'S GLANDS; LIEBERKUEHN'S GLANDS
  The simple tubular glands of the small intestines; -- called also crypts of Lieberkühn.
• TILLANDSIA
  A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great
• PEYER'S GLANDS
  Pathches of lymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.