Definition of Islnd
Is"land (?), n. [OE. iland,
yland, AS. īgland, &?;gland,
&?;glond; īg, &?;g, island + land,
lond, land. AS. īg, &?;g, is akin to AS.
eá water, river, OHG. &?;uwa, G. au
meadow, Icel. ey island, Dan. & Sw. ö, Goth.
ahwa a stream, water, L. aqua water. The s is
due to confusion with isle. Cf. Ait, Eyot,
Ewer, Aquatic.]
1. A tract of land surrounded by water, and
smaller than a continent. Cf. Continent.
2. Anything regarded as resembling an island;
as, an island of ice.
3. (Zoöl.) See Isle,
n., 2.
Islands of the blessed (Myth.),
islands supposed to lie in the Western Ocean, where the favorites
of the gods are conveyed at death, and dwell in everlasting
joy.
Is"land (?), v. t. 1.
To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island
or islands of; to isle. Shelley.
2. To furnish with an island or with islands;
as, to island the deep. Southey.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
ISLAND. He drank out of the bottle till he saw the island;
the island is the rising bottom of a wine bottle, which
appears like an island in the centre, before the bottle is
quite empty.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)
- An area of land totally surrounded by water.
- An entity surrounded by other entities that are very different from itself: an island of tranquility, a calm place surrounded by a noisy environment.
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- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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