A breeze blowing from the land seawards.
1667. H. Stubbe, in Phil. Trans., II. 499. There is little of Land-brise, because the Mountain is remote from thence.
1698. Fryer, Acc. E. India & P., 55. The Land-Breezes brought a poysonous Smell on board Ship.
1783. Cowper, Loss R. George, 9. A land-breeze shook the shrouds, And she was overset.
1846. Grote, Greece, II. xlix. (1862), IV. 316. The strong land-breeze out of the Gulf of Corinth.
