lose sight
of it.--_Land-locked_ is when land lies all round the ship.--_Land is
shut in_, signifies that another point of land hides that from which the
ship came.--_The ship lies land to_, implies so far from shore that it
can only just be discerned.--_To set the land_, is to see by compass how
it bears.--_To make the land._ To sight it after an absence.--_To land
on deck._ A nautical anomaly, meaning to lower casks or weighty goods on
deck from the tackles.

LAND-BLINK. On Arctic voyages, a peculiar atmospheric brightness on
approaching land covered with snow; usually more yellow than
_ice-blink_.

LAND-BREEZE. A current of air which, in the temperate zones, and still
more within the tropics, regularly sets from the land towards the sea
during the night, and this even on opposite points of the coast. It
results from land losing its heat quicker than water; hence the air
above it becomes heavier, and rushes towards the sea to establish
equilibrium.

LANDES. The heathy track between Bordeaux and the Basses Pyrenees; but
also denoting uncultivated or unreclaimable spots.

LAND-FALL. Making the land. "A good land-fall" signifies making the land
at or near the place to which the course was intended, while "a bad
land-fall" implies the contrary.

LAND-FEATHER. A sea-cove.

LAND HO! The cry when land is first seen.

LAND-ICE. Flat ice connected with the shore, within which there is no
channel.

LANDING-STRAKE. In boats, the upper strake of plank but one.

LANDING-SURVEYOR. The custom-house officer who appoints and superintends
the landing-waiters.

LANDING-WAITERS. Persons appointed from the custom-house to inspect
goods discharged from foreign parts.

LAND-LOUPER. [Dutch.] Meaning he who flies from this country for crime
or debt, but not to be confounded with _land-lubber_ (which see).

LAND-LUBBER. A useless longshorer; a vagrant stroller. Applied by
sailors to the mass of landsmen, especially those without employment.

LANDMARK. Any steeple, tree, windmill, or other object, serving to guide
the seaman into port, or through a channel.

LAND-SHARKS. Crimps, pettifogging attorneys, slopmongers, and the
canaille infesting the slums of sea-port towns.

LAND-SLIP. The fall of a quantity of land from a cliff or declivity; the
land sliding away so as often to carry trees with it still standing
upright.

LANDSMEN. The rating formerly of those on board a ship who had never
been at sea, and who were usually st