Laplandn.
/ˈlaplənd/, /ˈlapland/, U.S. /ˈlæpˌlænd/ a. The region which forms the most northerly portion of the Scandinavian peninsula, now divided politically between Finland, Norway, Sweden, and Russia.Formerly, the fabled home of witches and magicians, who had power to send winds and tempests. Frequently attributive, as Lapland witch, Lapland giant, etc.
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a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. A4 Like..Lapland Gyants trotting by our sides.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. i. ii. 63 And nothing so familiar..as for Witches & Sorcerers, in Lapland, Lituania, and all ouer Scandia, to sell winds to Marriners, and cause tempests.
1638 J. Shirley Dukes Mistris ii. i. C 4 b I..dare Encounter with an armie out of Lapland.
1640 W. Habington Queene of Arragon i. i Your Lord~ship then Shall walke as safe, as if a Lapland witch..preserv'd you shot-free.
1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love ii. 26 Not a Ship shall pass out from any Port, but shall ask thee for a wind; thou shalt have all the trade of Lapland within a Month.
1681 J. Oldham Satyrs upon Jesuits 55 How travelling Saint, well mounted on a Switch, Rid Journies thro' the Air, like Lapland Witch.
1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iii. i. 44 Marry thee! Oons I'll Marry a Lapland-Witch as soon, and live upon selling of contrary Winds, and Wrack'd Vessels.
1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii Lapland clay, Mixt with the venom of black taids and snakes.
1802 W. Wordsworth Dear Child of Nature An old age, serene and bright And lovely as a Lapland night.
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1634 T. Heywood & R. Brome Late Lancashire Witches v. sig. K Then to work, to work my pretty Laplands Pinch, here, scratch.
1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells viii. 506 The Finnes and Laplands are acquainted well With such like Sp'rits, and Windes to Merchants sell.
Compounds
Lapland bunting n. a northern species of bunting, Calcarius lapponicus.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Calcarius (longspur)
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1862 J. G. Wood Illustr. Nat. Hist. (new ed.) II. 484 The Lapland Bunting, Snow Bunting... In some places it is called the..White Lark.
1912 W. E. Clarke Stud. Bird Migration II. xxiv. 268 Lapland bunting, Calcarius lapponicus.—Since our discovery of this species, Eilean Mor has been visited annually.
1953 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles I. 313 The Lapland bunting was added to the British list in 1826, when Selby described an example sent from Cambridgeshire to Leadenhall Market.
1971 Country Life 9 Sept. 616/2 Rare visitors [in Yorkshire]..such as..Lapland Bunting.
†Lapland marmot n. Obsolete = lemming n.
Draft additions 1997
Lapland longspur n. North American = Lapland bunting n. at Compounds above.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > seed eaters > [noun] > family Emberizidae > subfamily Emberizinae (bunting) > genus Calcarius (longspur)
snow-fleck1683
Lapland longspur1828
longspur1828
Lapland bunting1862
Smith's longspur1881
1828 C. L. Bonaparte Amer. Ornith. II. 53 Lapland Longspur, Emberiza Lapponica,..long since known to inhabit the desolate Arctic regions of both continents, is now for the first time introduced into the Fauna of the United States.
1972 S. Burnford One Woman's Arctic ii. 56 Apart from the ever-present Lapland longspurs, there were few birds yet.
1993 Up Here (Yellowknife, N.W. Territories) Oct. 62/1 As we pass, horned larks and Lapland longspurs frantically attempt to lure us away from their nests on the ground.
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