LAND, in nautical language, forms part of several compound terms. Thus, land-laid, or to lay the land, is just to lose sight of it. Land-locked, is when land lies all round the ship, so that no point of the compass is open to the sea. If the vessel is at anchor in such a place, she is said to ride land-locked, and is therefore concluded to ride safe from the violence of the winds and tides. Land-mark, is any mountain, rock, steeple, tree, or other object which may serve to make the land known at sea. The land is shut in, is a term used to signify that another point of land hinders the sight of that from which the ship came. Land-to, or the ship lies land-to, means she is so far from shore that it can only just be discerned. Land turn, is a wind that in almost all hot countries blows at certain times from the shore in the night. To set the land, is to see by the compass how it bears.