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.

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• 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.
• GLANDULAR
  Containing or supporting glands; consisting of glands; pertaining to glands.
• ENGARLAND
  To encircle with a garland, or with garlands. Sir P. Sidney.
• 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.