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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.

R.] Above all, the Servians . . . read, with much avidity, the evangile of their freedom. Londor.

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.

hells. Fossil copal, a resinous substance, first found in the blue clay at Highgate, near London, and apparently a vegetable resin, partly changed by remaining in the earth. -- Fossil cork, flax, paper, or wood, varieties of amianthus. -- Fossil farina, a soft carbonate of lime. -- Fossil ore, fossiliferous red hema…

, an asylum or sanctuary. Churches and mobasteries in Spain are franchises for criminals. London Encyc.

An ancient special kind of cessavit used in Kent and London for the recovery of rent. [Obs.]

f the Bible into English, made and published by English refugees in Geneva (Geneva, 1560; London, 1576). It was the first English Bible printed in Roman type instead of the ancient black letter, the first which recognized the division into verses, and the first which ommited the Apocrypha. In form it was a small quarto…

r shop; -- originally taken from the coat of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards. -- Golden bull. See under Bull, an edict. -- Golden chain (Bot.), the shrub Cytisus Laburnum, so named from its long clusters of yellow blossoms. -- Golden club (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Orontium aq…

In ordinary square or upright pianos of London make, the escapement lever or jack, so made that it can be taken out and replaced with the key; -- called also the hopper. Grove. Grasshopper engine, a steam engine having a working beam with its fulcrum at one end, the steam cylinder at the other end, and the connecting r…

lly or through the intervention of another, or by writing or token. My lord, the mayor of London comes to greet you. Shak.