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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…

Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.] The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.

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.

and goods from place to place, or as a tender to larger vessels in port. The hoy went to London every week. Cowper.

A district of country hunted over. Every landowner within the hunt. London Field.

A court formerly held in several cities of England; specif., a court held in London, before the lord mayor, recorder, and sheriffs, to determine certain classes of suits for the recovery of lands within the city. In the progress of law reform this court has become unimportant. Mozley & W.

Of or pertaining to the individual or individualism. London Athenæum.

sease; epidemic. The danger was really very great, the infection being so very violent in London. De Foe.

Full of, or conveying, information; instructive. [R.] London Spectator.