▪ 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.
| c 1150 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1137 Þa was corn dære..for nan ne wæs o þe land. 1297 R. Glouc. 389 And destrude al þat lond, þat no gode alonde nas. a 1400 Octouian 1628 The Kyng of Masydonye com ryde With hys ost alond. 1568 in Bannat. MS. in Gilchrist Scot. Bal. II. 104 Iok tuk Jynny be the hand..And made a brydell up alland. 1879 Jamieson 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.
| c 1175 Lamb. Hom. 165 He deð al þat his wil is, a wettre and alonde. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xvi. 189 Alle þat lyf hath A-londe & a-watre. 1582 Lichefield Disc. E. Ind. 159 Two shippes..in the water were likewise burnt, besides other three that were a land. 1608 Shakes. Per. ii. i. 31, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea..Why, as men do a-land. 1697 Dryden Virgil (1806) II. 213 And in mid ocean left them moor'd a-land. 1809 J. 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.
| c 1300 St. Brand. 114 A lute havene he fonde tho, Alond hi wende there. 1475 Caxton Jason 57 They hadde not sette foot a lande. 1580 North Plutarch (1676) 8 Ariadne..[was] so sore sea-sick..he was forced to put her aland. 1675 Hobbes Odyss. 91 Vulcan is now at Lemnos gone a land. 1805 Southey Madoc in Azt. xxv. Wks. V. 368 Could they but aland Set foot. 1870 Morris 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.
| 1570–87 Holinshed Scot. Chron. (1806) II. 295 Forthwith alanded at Leith Octavian a Frenchman. 1586 Thynne in Animadv. App. 86 On which [shore]..the Saxons were woont to alland, and then to spoile the Countrie. |