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ISLAND, n. i'land. [This is an absurd compound of isle and land, that is, land-in-water land, or ieland-land. There is no such legitimate word in English, and it is found only in books. The genuine word always used in discourse is our native word, Sax.ealong, D.G. eiland.]

1. A tract of land surrounded by water.

2. A large mass of floating ice, is called an island of ice.
1913 Definition
Island (island)
n.(?)
Is"land
[OE. iland, yland, AS. &imacr]gland, (?)gland, (?)glond; ***imacr]g, (?)g, island + land, lond, land. AS. ***imacr]g, (?)g, is akin to AS.
  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. 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.

  4. To cause to become or to resemble an island; to make an island or islands of; to isle.
    Shelley.
  5. To furnish with an island or with islands; as, to island the deep.
    Southey.

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