The solid portion of the earth's surface, as opposed to sea, water. Cf. firm land n. at firm, adj. 8, dry land, n. †occasionally classed as one of…

The earth as distinguished from the sea; the dry land. to lay on dry ground: to floor, gravel (cf. sense 2c). Obsolete.

Dry land, as opposed to the sea or other body of water.

Land not submerged or under water; land as opposed to sea.

poetic and rhetorically used for: The shore (of a sea); also ‘land’ as opposed to ‘sea’, esp. in (by) sea and sand. Obsolete.

That which is dry. spec. dry land. in the dry: on, or as on, dry land; not under water.

The land as opposed to the water, etc.; ‘terra firma’; the earth. Obsolete.

U.S. regional (chiefly East Coast). Firm dry land, as distinguished from tidal land, marshland, or swampland.

The land as distinguished from the sea; dry or firm land; in quot. 1786, the earth. Also figurative.

As a mass noun: land; territory. Obsolete. rare.

dry land, solid earth; the mainland (as opposed to an island), a ‘continent’.