Word Meanings - INLANDISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Inland. T. Reeve

INLAND
1. Within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior; as, an inland town. "This wide inland sea." Spenser. From inland regions to the distant main. Cowper. 2. Limited to the land, or to inland routes; within
REEVE
The female of the ruff.
INLANDER
One who lives in the interior of a country, or at a distance from the sea. Sir T. Browne.
INLANDISH
Inland. T. Reeve
FINLANDER
A native or inhabitant of Finland.
LANDREEVE
A subordinate officer on an extensive estate, who acts as an assistant to the steward.
LATHEREEVE; LATHREEVE
Formerly, the head officer of a lathe. See 1st Lathe.
TEINLAND
Land granted by the crown to a thane or lord. Burrill.
MAINLAND
The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula. Dryden. After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. Hawthorne.
GRIEVE; GREEVE
A manager of a farm, or overseer of any work; a reeve; a manorial bailiff. Their children were horsewhipped by the grieve. Sir W. Scott.
HOGREEVE
A civil officer charged with the duty of impounding hogs running at large. Bartlett.
PORTREEVE
A port warden.
GREEVE
See OVERSEER
UNREEVE
To withdraw, or take out, as a rope from a block, thimble, or the like.