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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.

roots, etc. -- Grub saw, a handsaw used for sawing marble. -- Grub Street, a street in London (now called Milton Street), described by Dr. Johnson as "much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet." As an adjective, suitable to, or re…

ented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who invented also Gunter's chain, and Gunter's quadrant.

One who forestalls a market; a middleman between producer and dealer in London vegetable markets.

of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.

reins being passed over the top. He hailed a cruising hansom . . . " 'Tis the gondola of London," said Lothair. Beaconsfield.

o be a spoil to tyranny." Daniel. -- To hem out, to shut out. "You can not hem me out of London." J. Webster.

rt of a room. The collections will be displayed in the hemicycle of the central pavilion. London Academy.

The act of hereticating or pronouncing heretical. London Times.

and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.] Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic.

Of or pertaining to a holethnos or parent race. The holethnic history of the Arians. London Academy.

Conferring honor; tending to honor. London. Spectator.

to the former headquarters of the commander in chief of the British army, at Whitehall in London.

unday, a Sunday set apart for simultaneous contribution in churches to hospitals; as, the London Hospital Sunday.