Cologne earth
() An earth of a deep brown color, containing more vegetable than mineral matter |
Earth
(n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit |
Earth
(n.) The solid materials which make up the globe, in distinction from the air or water |
Earth
(n.) The softer inorganic matter composing part of the surface of the globe, in distinction from the firm rock |
Earth
(n.) A part of this globe |
Earth
(n.) Worldly things, as opposed to spiritual things |
Earth
(n.) The people on the globe. |
Earth
(n.) Any earthy-looking metallic oxide, as alumina, glucina, zirconia, yttria, and thoria. |
Earth
(n.) A similar oxide, having a slight alkaline reaction, as lime, magnesia, strontia, baryta. |
Earth
(n.) A hole in the ground, where an animal hides himself |
Earth
(v. t.) To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth |
Earth
(v. t.) To cover with earth or mold |
Earth
(v. i.) To burrow. |
Earth
(n.) A plowing. |
Earth flax
() A variety of asbestus. See Amianthus. |
Earth shine
() See Earth light, under Earth. |
Earth-tongue
(n.) A fungus of the genus Geoglossum. |
Land
(n.) Urine. See Lant. |
Land
(n.) The solid part of the surface of the earth |
Land
(n.) Any portion, large or small, of the surface of the earth, considered by itself, or as belonging to an individual or a people, as a country, estate, farm, or tract. |
Land
(n.) Ground, in respect to its nature or quality |
Land
(n.) The inhabitants of a nation or people. |
Land
(n.) The mainland, in distinction from islands. |
Land
(n.) The ground or floor. |
Land
(n.) The ground left unplowed between furrows |
Land
(n.) Any ground, soil, or earth whatsoever, as meadows, pastures, woods, etc., and everything annexed to it, whether by nature, as trees, water, etc., or by the hand of man, as buildings, fences, etc. |
Land
(n.) The lap of the strakes in a clinker-built boat |
Land
(n.) In any surface prepared with indentations, perforations, or grooves, that part of the surface which is not so treated, as the level part of a millstone between the furrows, or the surface of the bore of a rifled gun between the grooves. |
Land
(v. t.) To set or put on shore from a ship or other water craft |
Land
(v. t.) To catch and bring to shore |
Land
(v. t.) To set down after conveying |
Land
(v. i.) To go on shore from a ship or boat |
Land-poor
(a.) Pecuniarily embarrassed through owning much unprofitable land. |
Middle-earth
(n.) The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. |
No-man's land
() A space amidships used to keep blocks, ropes, etc. |
No-man's land
() Fig.: An unclaimed space or time. |
Roller
(n.) One who, or that which, rolls |
Roller
(n.) A bandage |
Roller
(n.) One of series of long, heavy waves which roll in upon a coast, sometimes in calm weather. |
Roller
(n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder |
Roller
(n.) A cylinder coated with a composition made principally of glue and molassess, with which forms of type are inked previously to taking an impression from them. |
Roller
(n.) A long cylinder on which something is rolled up |
Roller
(n.) A small wheel, as of a caster, a roller skate, etc. |
Roller
(n.) ANy insect whose larva rolls up leaves |
Roller
(n.) Any one of numerous species of Old World picarian birds of the family Coraciadae. The name alludes to their habit of suddenly turning over or "tumbling" in flight. |
Roller
(n.) Any species of small ground snakes of the family Tortricidae. |
Table-land
(n.) A broad, level, elevated area of land |
| roller | a grounder that rolls along the infield |
| scorched-earth policy | the target company defends itself by selling off its crown jewels |
| land reform | a redistribution of agricultural land (especially by government action) |
| roller skating | skating on wheels |
| farming land | agriculture considered as an occupation or way of life, farming is a strenuous life, there's no work on the land any more |
| land development | making an area of land more useful |
| land-office business | very large and profitable volume of commercial activity |
roller tumbler
tumbler pigeon | pigeon that executes backward somersaults in flight or on the ground |
| roller | Old World bird that tumbles or rolls in flight, related to kingfishers |
European roller
Coracias garrulus | common European blue-and-green roller with a reddish-brown back |
| ground roller | Madagascan roller with terrestrial and crepuscular habits that feeds on e.g. insects and worms |
corncrake
land rail
Crex crex | common Eurasian rail that frequents grain fields |
leaf roller
leafoller | moth whose larvae form nests by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk |
ball bearing
needle bearing
roller bearing | bearings containing small metal balls |
curler
hair curler
roller crimper | a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it, a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight |
| garden roller | heavy cast-iron cylinder used to flatten lawns |
| ground earth | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
land line
landline | a telephone line that travels over terrestrial circuits, a land line can be wire or fiber optics or microwave |
land mine
ground-emplaced mine
booby trap | an explosive mine hidden underground, explodes when stepped on or driven over |
| land office | a government office where business relating to public lands is transacted |
| paint roller | a roller that has an absorbent surface used for spreading paint |
Polaroid camera
Polaroid Land camera | a camera that develops and produces a positive print within seconds |
rock bit
roller bit | a drill bit that has hardened rotating rollers |
| roller | a cylinder that revolves |
| roller | a small wheel without spokes (as on a roller skate) |
| roller bandage | bandage consisting of a strip of sterile fabric (of variable width) rolled into a cylinder to facilitate application |
| roller blind | a window shade that rolls up out of the way |
roller coaster
big dipper
chute-thehute | elevated railway in an amusement park (usually with sharp curves and steep inclines) |
| roller skate | a shoe with pairs of rollers fixed to the sole |
| roller towel | a towel with the ends sewn together, hung on a roller |
steamroller
road roller | vehicle equipped with heavy wide smooth rollers for compacting roads and pavements |
twilight zone
no man's land | the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both), but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal, in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity, in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression |
acreage
land area | an area of ground used for some particular purpose (such as building or farming), he wanted some acreage to build on |
| clouduckoo-land | an imaginary place where you say people are when they seem optimistically out of touch with reality |
| Promised Land | the goal towards which Christians strive |
never-never land
dreamland
dreamworld | a pleasing country existing only in dreams or imagination |
worldly concern
earthly concern
world earth | the concerns of this life as distinguished from heaven and the afterlife, they consider the church to be independent of the world |
| earth science | any of the sciences that deal with the earth or its parts |
roller
roll rolling wave | a long heavy sea wave as it advances towards the shore |
tremor
earth tremor
microseism | a small earthquake |
a Hizballah
Hezbollah
Hizbollah
Hizbullah
Lebanese Hizballah
Party of God
Islamic Jihad Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine
Revolutionary Justice Organization
Organization of the Oppressed on Earth | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran, seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon, car bombs are the signature weapon |
| nation land country | the people who live in a nation or country, a statement that sums up the nation's mood, the news was announced to the nation, the whole country worshipped him |
state
nation
country
land
commonwealth
res publica
body politic | a politically organized body of people under a single government, the state has elected a new president, African nations, students who had come to the nation's capitol, the country's largest manufacturer, an industrialized land |
| law of the land | a phrase used in the Magna Carta to refer to the then established law of the kingdom (as distinct from Roman or civil law), today it refers to fundamental principles of justice commensurate with due process, the United States Constitution declares itself to be `the supreme law of the land' |
Adelie Land
Terre Adelie
Adelie Coast | a costal region of Antarctica to the south of Australia, noted for its large colonies of penguins |
fatherland
homeland
motherland
mother country
country of origin
native land | the country where you were born |
| Coats Land | a region of western Antarctica along the southeastern shore of the Weddell Sea |
| commons common land | a pasture subject to common use |
country
state
land | the territory occupied by a nation, he returned to the land of his birth, he visited several European countries |
domain
demesne
land | territory over which rule or control is exercised, his domain extended into Europe, he made it the law of the land |