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An imprecation; a curse; a malediction. Finally she fled to London followed by the anathemas of both [families]. Thackeray.

The stretched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

Opposition to vaccination. London Times.

anical and shopkeeping classes, and there was not a single banker or anybody in the list. Lond. Sat. Rev.

or girl. Tylor. The ragged outcasts and street Arabs who are shivering in damp doorways. Lond. Sat. Rev.

; a body of helpers. [Obs.] Wat Tyler [was] killed by valiant Walworth, the lord mayor of London, and his assistance, . . . John Cavendish. Fuller.

ation for the name of a particular thing; as, "He has gone to town," for, "He has gone to London."

In the companies of London tradesmen, one not yet admitted to wear the livery; a junior member. [Obs.]

A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester. [Eng.] Oxf. Gloss.

refuse; to let go by; to shirk. [Obs. or Obsolescent] By reason of the contagion then in London, we balked the Evelyn. Sick he is, and keeps his bed, and balks his meat. Bp. Hall. Nor doth he any creature balk, But lays on all he meeteth. Drayton.

A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. [R.]

aining much farinaceous, saccharine, or oily matter; -- so called from William Banting of London.

Belonging to Belgravia (a fashionable quarter of London, around Pimlico), or to fashionable life; aristocratic.

ct required to be covered by such statement; as, a place within the bills of mortality of London. -- Bill of pains and penalties, a special act of a legislature which inflicts a punishment less than death upon persons supposed to be guilty of treason or felony, without any conviction in the ordinary course of judicial…

A market near the Billings gate in London, celebrated for fish and foul language.

, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and September 18, 1873, on which financial panics began.

block, comprising 282 houses and covering nine acres of ground, exists in Oxford Street. Lond. Quart. Rev.

r. [Colloq.] Lord Palmerston considered himself the bottleholder of oppressed states. The London Times.

ventures are not in one bottom trusted. Shak. Not to sell the teas, but to return them to London in the same bottoms in which they were shipped. Bancroft. Full bottom, a hull of such shape as permits carrying a large amount of merchandise.

The bells of Bow Church in London; cockneydom. People born within the sound of Bow-bells are usually called cockneys. Murray's Handbook of London.