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Webster 1828 Edition


Ieland

I'ELAND

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Noun.
i'land. [L. aqua,and land. This is the genuine English word, always used in discourse, but for which is used island, an absurd compound of Fr.isle and land, which signifies land in water-land, or rather ieland-land.]
1.
A portion of land surrounded by water; as Bermuda, Barbadoes, Cuba, Great Britain, Borneo.
2.
A large mass of floating ice.