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LAND , the See also: general See also:term for that See also:part of the See also:earth's See also:surface which is solid and dry as opposed to See also:sea or See also:water. The word is See also:common to See also:Teutonic See also:languages, mainly in the same See also:form and with essentially the same meaning. The See also:Celtic cognate forms are Irish lann, Welsh Ilan, an enclosure, also in the sense of " See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church," and so of See also:constant occurrence in Welsh See also:place-names, Cornish lan and See also:Breton lann, See also:health, which has given the See also:French lande, an expanse or See also:tract of sandy See also:waste ground. The ultimate See also:root is unknown. From its See also:primary meaning have See also:developed naturally the various uses of the word, for a tract of ground or See also:country viewed either as a See also:political, See also:geographical or ethnographical See also:division of the earth, as See also:property owned by the public or See also:state or by a private individual, or as the rural as opposed to the See also:urban or the cultivated as opposed to the built on part of the country; of particular'meanings may be mentioned that of a See also:building divided into tenements or flats, the divisions being known as " houses," a Scottish usage, and also that of a division of a ploughed See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field marked by the irrigating channels, hence transferred to the smooth parts of the See also:bore of a See also:rifle between the grooves of the rifling.
For the See also:physical See also:geography of the land, as the solid portion of the earth's surface, see GEOGRAPHY. For land as the subject of cultivation see See also:AGRICULTURE and See also:SOIL, aISO,RECLAMATION OF LAND. For the See also:history of the holding or See also:tenure of land see See also:VILLAGE COMMUNITIES and See also:FEUDALISM; a particular form of land tenure is dealt with under METAYAGE. The See also:article AGRARIAN See also:LAWS deals with the disposal of the public land (Ager publicus) in See also:Ancient See also:Rome, and further See also:information with regard to the part played by the land question in See also:Roman history will be found under ROME: § History. The legal See also:side of the private ownership of land is treated under REAL PROPERTY and See also:CONVEYANCING (see also LANDLORD AND See also:TENANT, and LAND See also:REGISTRATION).
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