'Landskip' definitions:
Definition of 'Landskip'
From: GCIDE
- Landskip \Land"skip\, n. [See Landscape.] A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.] [1913 Webster]
- Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the landskip round it measures. --Milton. [1913 Webster] Landslide
Definition of 'landskip'
From: GCIDE
- Landscape \Land"scape\, n. [Formerly written also landskip.] [D. landschap; land land + -schap, equiv. to E. -schip; akin to G. landschaft, Sw. landskap, Dan. landskab. See Land, and -schip.]
- 1. A portion of land or territory which the eye can comprehend in a single view, including all the objects it contains. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A picture representing a scene by land or sea, actual or fancied, the chief subject being the general aspect of nature, as fields, hills, forests, water. etc. Compare seascape. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The pictorial aspect of a country. [1913 Webster]
- The landscape of his native country had taken hold on his heart. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Landscape gardening, The art of laying out grounds and arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to produce a picturesque effect. [1913 Webster]