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▪ I. aland, adv., prop. phr. arch.|əˈlænd| [a prep.1 on, in + land. The full on lande, on þam lande, and the intermed. o þe lande, o lande also occur.] †1. Position: In the land, in the country. Obs.
c1150O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1137 Þa was corn dære..for nan ne wæs o þe land. 1297R. Glouc. 389 And destrude al þat lond, þat no gode alonde nas. a1400Octouian 1628 The Kyng of Masydonye com ryde With hys ost alond. 1568in Bannat. MS. in Gilchrist Scot. Bal. II. 104 Iok tuk Jynny be the hand..And made a brydell up alland. 1879Jamieson Scot. Dict., Up-a-land, at a distance from the sea; in the country. 2. On the dry land (in opposition to the water or sea); ashore. ? Obs.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 165 He deð al þat his wil is, a wettre and alonde. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 189 Alle þat lyf hath A-londe & a-watre. 1582Lichefield Disc. E. Ind. 159 Two shippes..in the water were likewise burnt, besides other three that were a land. 1608Shakes. Per. ii. i. 31, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea..Why, as men do a-land. 1697Dryden Virgil (1806) II. 213 And in mid ocean left them moor'd a-land. 1809J. Barlow Columb. v. 815 Howe leads aland the interminable train, While his bold brother still bestorms the main. 3. Motion: To the land or shore, ashore.
c1300St. Brand. 114 A lute havene he fonde tho, Alond hi wende there. 1475Caxton Jason 57 They hadde not sette foot a lande. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 8 Ariadne..[was] so sore sea-sick..he was forced to put her aland. 1675Hobbes Odyss. 91 Vulcan is now at Lemnos gone a land. 1805Southey Madoc in Azt. xxv. Wks. V. 368 Could they but aland Set foot. 1870Morris Earthly Par. I. i. 50 A well-hooped cask our shipmen brought aland. ▪ II. † aˈland, v. Obs. rare. [f. prec. phr.] To come ashore, land.
1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 295 Forthwith alanded at Leith Octavian a Frenchman. 1586Thynne in Animadv. App. 86 On which [shore]..the Saxons were woont to alland, and then to spoile the Countrie. |