Hypertext Webster Gateway: "landskip"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

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.

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.

3. The pictorial aspect of a country.

The landscape of his native country had taken hold
on his heart. --Macaulay.

{Landscape gardening}, The art of laying out grounds and
arranging trees, shrubbery, etc., in such a manner as to
produce a picturesque effect.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Landskip \Land"skip\, n. [See {Landscape}.]
A landscape. [Obs. except in poetry.]

Straight my eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the
landskip round it measures. --Milton.


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