<B>landscape, </B>noun, verb, <B>-scaped,</B> <B>-scaping.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a view of scenery on land that can be taken in at a glance from one point of view. <BR> <I>Ex. From the church tower the two hills with the valley formed a beautiful landscape.</I> (SYN) prospect. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a picture showing a land scene. <BR> <I>Ex. an exhibit of landscapes.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the art of painting such scenes. <BR> <I>Ex. to study landscape.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) panorama; scene; view. <BR> <I>Ex. The landscape of international politics is now very different from what it was (Listener).</I> (SYN) vista. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make (land) more pleasant to look at by arranging trees, shrubs, or flowers. <BR> <I>Ex. The park is landscaped. ... the beautifully landscaped motels with swimming pools (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to be a landscape gardener. noun <B>landscaper.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="landscapearchitect">
<B>landscape architect,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person whose business is designing landscape. </DL>
<A NAME="landscapearchitecture">
<B>landscape architecture,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the designing of landscape, as in a city park or along a highway. </DL>
<A NAME="landscapegardener">
<B>landscape gardener,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person whose business is landscape gardening. </DL>
<A NAME="landscapegardening">
<B>landscape gardening,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the arrangement of trees, shrubs, or flowers, to give a pleasing appearance to grounds, parks, or other areas. </DL>
<A NAME="landscapist">
<B>landscapist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a painter of landscapes. <BR> <I>Ex. Though Europe has produced a host of great landscapists, from Claude Lorrain to Paul Cezanne, the West's best could have learned much from the Chinese (Time).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a landscape architect or gardener. <BR> <I>Ex. In the skillful hands of the Belgian landscapists, the grounds were transformed into a wonderland of light and verdure (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="landshark">
<B>land shark,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a dishonest person who cheats or robs seamen on shore. <BR> <I>Ex. Flophouse keepers, saloon owners, and other land sharks ... shanghaied [sailors] aboard ship (Atlantic).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a land grabber. </DL>
<A NAME="landship">
<B>landship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a ship erected and kept on land for training purposes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a wagon or other vehicle used for transportation on land. </DL>
<A NAME="landside">
<B>landside, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the flat side of a plow, which is turned toward the unplowed land. </DL>
<A NAME="landslide">
<B>landslide, </B>noun, verb, <B>-slid</B> or <B>-slided,</B> <B>-sliding.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a sliding down of a mass of soil or rock on a steep slope. <BR> <I>Ex. The term landslide usually refers to a rapid movement of earth from side embankments of roadside cuts but can also refer to slow motion movements in which earth gradually slips from roadsides onto the paving (Science News Letter).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the mass that slides down. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) an overwhelming number of votes for one political party or candidate in an election. <BR> <I>Ex. The enormous vote cast for the President made his election a landslide.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) an event of rapidly developing proportions, especially a disaster. <BR> <I>Ex. Along with all their other problems, the two leaders now had to face landslide inflation (Atlantic).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to win an election by a landslide. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to elect by a landslide. <BR> <I>Ex. The English electorate ... has landslided the Tomboy Tories in for yet another fun-filled term (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="landslip">
<B>landslip, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) landslide (defs. 1 and 2). </DL>
<A NAME="landsmal">
<B>Landsmal, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the more recent of the two varieties of standard, literary Norwegian (contrasted with <I>Riksmal</I>); Nynorsk. It incorporates various native dialects. </DL>
<A NAME="landsman">
<B>landsman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-men.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person who lives or works on land or who has had no experience at sea. <BR> <I>Ex. There is nothing so helpless and pitiable an object in the world as a landsman beginning a sailor's life (Richard Henry Dana).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Nautical.) an inexperienced seaman, below an ordinary seaman in rating. </DL>
<A NAME="landspeed">
<B>land speed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> speed of a vehicle on land or the speed comparable to that of a vehicle on land. <BR> <I>Ex. Then the land speed record merely becomes an air speed record at zero altitude (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="landspout">
<B>landspout, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a funnel-shaped cloud resembling a waterspout but occurring on land. A landspout may be produced by certain severe whirling storms of small extent. </DL>
<A NAME="landsraad">
<B>Landsraad, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the legislative council of Greenland. </DL>
<A NAME="landssakes">
<B>land's sakes,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an exclamation or expression of surprise, wonder, or mild disgust. </DL>
<A NAME="landsting">
<B>Landsting</B> or <B>Landsthing, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) the upper house of the Rigsdag or former bicameral parliament of Denmark. </DL>
<A NAME="landsturm">
<B>Landsturm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria: <DD><B> 1. </B>a general levy in time of war. <DD><B> 2. </B>the force that consists of all men liable to call for military service and not already in the army, navy, or Landwehr. </DL>
<A NAME="landswoman">
<B>landswoman, </B>noun, pl. <B>-women.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a woman who lives or works on land. </DL>
<A NAME="landtag">
<B>Landtag, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tage.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a diet, or lawmaking body, of a German state or of Liechtenstein. </DL>
<A NAME="landtied">
<B>landtied, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> joined to the mainland or to other land by the growth of reefs or sandspits, as islands. </DL>
<A NAME="landtoland">
<B>land-to-land, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> launched from land at a target on land. <BR> <I>Ex. land-to-land missiles.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="landward">
<B>landward, </B>adverb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> toward the land or shore. </DL>
<A NAME="landwards">
<B>landwards, </B>adverb. <B>=landward.</B></DL>
<A NAME="landwehr">
<B>Landwehr, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria) that part of the organized military forces of the nation that have been trained in regular units for a given period of time and who are required to serve only in time of war. </DL>
<A NAME="landwind">
<B>land wind,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wind blowing from the land toward the sea. </DL>
<A NAME="landworker">
<B>landworker, </B>noun. <B>=farm hand.</B></DL>
<A NAME="landyacht">
<B>land yacht,</B> <B>=sand yacht.</B></DL>
<A NAME="lane">
<B>lane</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a narrow way between hedges, walls, or fences, especially a narrow country road or path or city street. <BR> <I>Ex. A carriage drove down the muddy lane. A parish all of fields, high hedges, and deep-rutted lanes (George Eliot).</I> (SYN) passage. <DD><B> 2. </B>a lengthwise division of a highway marked for a single line of traffic. <BR> <I>Ex. Center lane for left turn only (highway sign). Many four-lane highways cross the country.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a course or route used by ships or aircraft going in the same direction. <DD><B> 4. </B>an alley between buildings. <DD><B> 5. </B>any narrow way or other thing resembling a lane. <BR> <I>Ex. The President walked down a lane formed by two lines of soldiers and sailors. The FCC patrols the radio lanes for illegal operations and technical violators (George O. Gillingham).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a bowling alley. <BR> <I>Ex. Reflecting the new tone, alleys have become "lanes," and even the gutters that line the alleys are now channels (Time).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>one of the narrow alleys on a track, marked by chalked lines, especially one in which a runner must stay during sprint or hurdle races. </DL>
<B>laneway, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the path or pavement of a lane. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=lane.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="lang">
<B>lang, </B>adjective, adverb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) long (1). </DL>
<A NAME="lang">
<B>lang.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> language. </DL>
<A NAME="langaha">
<B>langaha, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a snake of Madagascar, having the snout prolonged into a sharply flexible tip. </DL>
<A NAME="langbeinite">
<B>langbeinite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a mineral, a sulfate of potassium and magnesium, that occurs in potassium salt deposits and is mined as a source of potassium sulfate. </DL>
<A NAME="langerhansislands">
<B>Langerhans islands, =islets of Langerhans.</B></DL>
<A NAME="langlauf">
<B>langlauf, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the act or sport of cross-country skiing. </DL>
<A NAME="langlaufer">
<B>langlaufer, </B>noun, pl. <B>-laufer</B> or <B>-laufers.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a cross-country skier; gelandelaufer. </DL>
<A NAME="langley">
<B>langley, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of solar radiation equal to 1 small calorie per square centimeter. </DL>
<A NAME="langmuirprobe">
<B>Langmuir probe,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a device to measure plasma density by calculating the potential electric discharge along a probe in a plasma-filled tube. </DL>
<A NAME="langobard">
<B>Langobard, </B>noun. <B>=Lombard.</B></DL>
<A NAME="langobardian">
<B>Langobardian, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the Germanic language of the Lombards. </DL>
<B>langoustine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (French.) a small lobster. </DL>
<A NAME="langrage">
<B>langrage</B> or <B>langridge, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of scattering shot of nails, bolts, and the like, fastened together or enclosed in a case, formerly used in naval warfare for damaging sails and rigging. </DL>
