(a) A territory considered as a political unit, a country, a kingdom; also, a smaller political unit; (b) londes folk, ~ peple, the inhabitants of a country; ~ god, a local deity; ~ ivel, plague, pestilence; also, epilepsy; ~ knight; ~ riche [OE land-rice], a land, country; ~ sorwe, a national disaster, widespread ruin; londes right = londes laue [see laue 6a. (a)]; don ut of ~, senden of ~, to exile (sb.); (c) one's own land, native land; lond)es speche, the native language, the vernacular; (d) specif. England; ~ iren, iron made from native English ore, often of inferior quality; (e) a people, a nation of people, the inhabitants of a land; (f) fig. a place or state of being, a region of the mind or spirit; also, heaven; also, God's realm, material and spiritual; (g) in poetic tags, with little semantic content: in ~; into ~, to ~, to us, to people; comen to ~, to occur, happen.

(a) Landed property; lond(es and lede(s, [see also lede n. (2) 3.]; ~ and lith [see lith n. (4) (a)]; londes and rentes, rente and ~; ~ biere, a buyer of land; ~ lire, loss of land; ~ tenaunt; ple of ~, a suit brought to restore rightful possession of land; (b) arable land, productive land; ~ and mede, arable and pasture land; ~ dol, a section of arable land; ~ mede, meadow land; ~ tilie, ~ tillere, a farmer; treuage of ~, tribute of the fruits of the earth; (c) a type of land, soil; (d) a piece of land of fixed dimensions, a field; ?also, a yard attached to a building; ~ share [OE land-scearu], an open piece of land (?serving as a field boundary); londes mark, a boundary; oxegang ~, a bovate; (e) a unit of land; ?a strip of land comprising two furrows and the ridge between; ~ forwe; ~ rigge, the central ridge; (f) ~ avese [cp. OE æfese & æfesn], ~ chere [?cp. share n. (2)], ~ mol, ~ silver, ~ tol-peni, various rents on land; ~ bras, ?ground malt for common use; ~ chep, lancept [OE land-cēap], a fee to the lord on alienation of land; ~ egging [cp. eggen v. (3)], a service of harrowing; ~ fish, ?a fish brought overland to market; ~ hok, landiok, a hook-shaped piece of land; ~ holdere, one occupying land, a tenant; ~ leve [cp. leve n. (2)], fee paid to a landowner for permission to quarry on his land; ~ mol-bok, a rent book; ~ multure, ?ground corn for common use; ~ reddinge [OE land-hredding], redemption of land; (g) aker ~ [see also aker n. (1) 1. (a)]; bord ~ [see also bord-lond]; coterel ~, ? = cotman ~; cotman ~ [see also cot-man (a)]; feld ~ [see feld 2.]; for(e ~ [see also for(eland 2.]; forreple ~ [?OE *forerǣpel-land, cp. Löfvenberg ME Local Surnames 68], forest made into arable land; hed ~ [see also hed n. (1) 8. (c)]; plough ~, plowland.

(a) The world, the earth; also, this world as distinguished from the next; in (o, on, upon) ~, on earth; (b) a region of the earth, a piece of the earth; a district, a piece of territory large or small; ~ win, the wine of the district; (c) an area of open land, the countryside; up on ~, up of ~, in the country; over lond(es, across country, over the countryside; taken ~ under fot [see fot 14. (w)]; (d) a space of ground; holden ~, to hold one's ground in a fight; losen ~; i)winnen ~; (e) in special designations: ~ of biheste, the Promised Land; also, fig. heaven [see also biheste la. (b)]; ~ of ayenbehest (promissioun, repromissioun), the Promised Land; holi ~, Palestine [see holi 5a. (a)]; also fig.; hoten ~, the Promised Land [see also hoten v. (1) 4a. (g)]; ~ feminin, country of the Amazons; ~ of visioun (sight), Mount Moriah or the area containing it.

(a) The land as distinct from the sea, rivers, etc.; the dry land; se and ~, bi ~ and bi ship (water); bi ~ and se; bi ~ or bi navie (water); bi ~ and (ne) bi lake [see lake n. (1) 1. (a)]; in ~ and in se; on ~ and ses; on ~ ne se; bi water and (ne) bi ~; in water and in ~; on water and on lond(es; in se and in ~; on se and (other) on ~; bi strond and bi ~; taken (lacchen, winnen) ~, nimen lond(es, to come to land, reach land, disembark; (b) ~ flod, an inundation, a flood; ~ gravel, sand not from the seashore; ~ half, the landward side; ~ metere, a land surveyor; ~ side, the seashore; ~ snail; ~ tortuse; ~ werre; ~ worm; bi) ~ wei, by a land route, overland; (c) the element earth; also, the sphere of earth; (d) an island; (e) the ground floor of a castle.

(a) In surnames; (b) in place names [see Smith PNElem. 2.13-14].