A wind blowing from the land seawards. Also attrib. (Cf. LAND-BREEZE.)
1598. W. Phillips, Linschoten (1864), 192. The East windes beginne to blowe from off the Land into the Seas, whereby they are called Terreinhos, that is to say, the Land windes.
1604. E. G[rimstone], D’Acosta’s Hist. Indies, III. viii. 142. There be foraine or land windes which come from the land.
1793. Smeaton, Edystone L., § 12. Being a Land-wind, it must blow hard before it raises any considerable sea at the rock.
1804. Med. Jrnl., XII. 538. It is not uncommon, during the land-wind, for the thermometer to stand at upwards of 100° in the shade.
1848. Longf., Sir H. Gilbert, v. Alas! the land-wind failed.
1862. Mrs. Speid, Last Years Ind., 44. In the land-wind season.
