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A race for three-old horses, run annually at Epsom (near London), for the Derby stakes. It was instituted by the 12th Earl of Derby, in

; disfigurement. [R.] To substitute jury masts at whatever desightment or damage in risk. London Times.

To alight, or to cause to alight, from a railway train. [Eng.] London Graphic.

rowd out; to take the place of. Holland displaced Portugal as the mistress of those seas. London Times.

Judgment; judicial sentence; penal decree; condemnation. The first dooms of London provide especially the recovery of cattle belonging to the citizens. J. R. Green. Now against himself he sounds this doom. Shak.

To transfer by draft. All her rents been drafted to London. Fielding.

st], Yet scarce allayed, still eyes the current stream. Milton. In the dust and drouth of London life. Tennyson.

A member of a social and benevolent order, founded in London in 1781, and professedly based on the traditions of the ancient Druids. Lodges or groves of the society are established in other countries. Druid stones, a name given, in the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the…

rove That this is eke the throne of love. Prior. A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. Cowper.

mer, heater, grater. At the end of names of places, -er signifies a man of the place; as, Londoner, i. e., London man.

when, for example, a bill in New York, for the payment of one hundred pounds sterling in London, can be purchased for the sum. Exchange is in favor of a place when it can be purchased there at or above par. -- Telephone exchange, a central office in which the wires of any two telephones or telephone stations may be c…

That which pleases or entertains the taste or caprice without much use or value. London pride is a pretty fancy for borders. Mortimer.

d is dead. -- Feme sole trader or merchant (Eng. Law), a married woman, by the custom of London, engages in business on her own account, inpendently of her husband.

e capacity; -- so called because first observed in connection with the Ferranti cables in London.

sh; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. Wages £14 and all found. London Times. Nothing a day and find yourself. Dickens.

The state of being flabbergasted. [Jocular] London Punch.

A kind of low-crowned cap formerly worn by all classes in England, and continued in London after disuse elsewhere; -- hence, a citizen of London. Marston.

et; a bay or estuary; a river; -- obsolete, except as a place name, -- as Fleet Street in London. Together wove we nets to entrap the fish In floods and sedgy fleets. Matthewes.

Violent agitation; commotion; bustle; hurry. The racket and flurry of London. Blakw. Mag.

steel. There are very few yards in the world at which such forgings could be turned out. London Times.