n. [ L. blandiloquentia; blandus mild + loqui to speak. ] Mild, flattering speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Fair-spoken; flattering. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Same word as Blandish. ] To blandish any one. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blandished p. pr. & vb. n. Blandishing. ] [ OE. blaundisen, F. blandir, fr. L. blandiri, fr. blandus mild, flattering. ] 1. To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make agreeable and enticing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mustering all her wiles,
With blandished parleys. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who uses blandishments. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. OF. blandissement. ] The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cowering low with blandishment. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Attacked by royal smiles, by female blandishments. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. The Jesuit editors of the “Acta Sanctorum”, or Lives of the Saints; -- named from John Bolland, who began the work. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. celidoine, OF. celidoine, F. chélidoine, fr. L. chelidonia (sc. herba), fr. chelidonius pertaining to the swallow, Gr. chelido`nios, fr. chelidw`n the swallow, akin to L. hirundo a swallow. ] (Bot.) A perennial herbaceous plant (Chelidonium majus) of the poppy family, with yellow flowers. It is used as a medicine in jaundice, etc., and its acrid saffron-colored juice is used to cure warts and the itch; -- called also greater celandine and swallowwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lasser celandine, the pilewort (Ranunculus Ficaria). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Professor Parker Cleaveland. ] (Min.) A variety of albite, white and lamellar in structure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glandifer; glans, glandis, acorn + ferre to bear; cf. F. glandifère. ] Bearing acorns or other nuts; as, glandiferous trees. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. glans, glandis, acorn + -form: cf. F. glandiforme . ] Having the form of a gland or nut; resembling a gland. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ After Heuland, an English mineralogist. ] (Min.) A mineral of the Zeolite family, often occurring in amygdaloid, in foliated masses, and also in monoclinic crystals with pearly luster on the cleavage face. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Relating to Holland; Dutch. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to Iceland; relating to, or resembling, the Icelanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The language of the Icelanders. It is one of the Scandinavian group, and is more nearly allied to the Old Norse than any other language now spoken. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Inland. [ Obs. ] T. Reeve(1657) [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. juglans, -andis, a walnut: cf. F. juglandine. ] (Chem.) An extractive matter contained in the juice of the green shucks of the walnut (Juglans regia). It is used medicinally as an alterative, and also as a black hair dye. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alkaloid found in the leaves of the walnut (Juglans regia). [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. a. Of or pertaining to Jutland, or to the people of Jutland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of, pertaining to, or used for, setting, bringing, or going, on shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

Landing charges, charges or fees paid on goods unloaded from a vessel. --
Landing net, a small, bag-shaped net, used in fishing to take the fish from the water after being hooked. --
Landing stage, a floating platform attached at one end to a wharf in such a manner as to rise and fall with the tide, and thus facilitate passage between the wharf and a vessel lying beside the stage. --
Landing waiter, a customhouse officer who oversees the landing of goods, etc., from vessels; a landwaiter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A going or bringing on shore. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place for landing, as from a ship, a carriage. etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Arch.) The level part of a staircase, at the top of a flight of stairs, or connecting one flight with another. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Aeronautics) The act or process of bringing an aircraft to land after having been in the air; as, the pilot made a perfect three-point landing. Contrasted with take-off. [ PJC ]

Landing place. me as Landing, n., 2 and 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The wheels and attached structures under an airplane that support it and allow it to move when on the ground; also, the floats or pontoons of an amphibious airplane together with their supporting structures. Landing gear may be fixed rigidly in place, or retractable when in flight. [ PJC ]

n. (Aeronautics) A runway at an airport, at which airplanes land{ 3 }; the long smooth surface used for takeoff or landing{ 4 }. [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Lapland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. ūtlendisc foreign. See Out, Land, and -ish. ] 1. Foreign; not native. [ archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Him did outlandish women cause to sin. Neh. xiii. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

Its barley water and its outlandish wines. G. W. Cable. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence: Deviating conspicuously from common practice; strange; freakish; bizarre; rude; barbarous; uncouth; clownish; as, an outlandish dress, behavior, or speech; -- usually used in a negative sense. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

--Out*land"ish*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. The quality of being strikingly out of the ordinary; the quality of being outlandish{ 2 }.
Syn. -- bizarreness, weirdness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Of or pertaining to uplands; dwelling on high lands. [ Obs. ] Chapman. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

His presence made the rudest peasant melt,
That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of a body of Dutch Anabaptists who separated from the Mennonites in the sixteenth century; -- so called from a district in North Holland denominated Waterland. [ 1913 Webster ]