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o find, the way; bewildered; perplexed; as, a child lost in the woods; a stranger lost in London.

f money; lots of people think so. [Colloq.] He wrote to her . . . he might be detained in London by a lot of business. W. Black.

all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Josh. viii. 15. My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. Latimer. -- To make at, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack. -- To make away with. (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to…

gen to the moon. Chaucer. Mansion house, the house in which one resides; specifically, in London and some other cities, the official residence of the Lord Mayor. Blackstone.

A market. Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London Cowper.

A charmer of women. [Slang] London Punch.

ables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.

They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] -- To milk a…

One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. [Slang] Spectator. Macaulay.

A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

Naïve; as, a naïf remark. London Spectator.

One of the night brawlers of London formerly noted for breaking windows with half-pence. [Cant] Arbuthnot.

sions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbrosa. See London pride (a), under London.

g the jaws strongly serrated, or dentated, but destitute of true teeth. It was found near London.

e things at your pleasure, but not both. It corresponds to either. You may ride either to London or to Windsor. It often connects a series of words or propositions, presenting a choice of either; as, he may study law, or medicine, or divinity, or he may enter into trade. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfer…

Knowledge or use of Oriental languages, history, literature, etc. London Quart. Rev.

To live too long, too luxuriously, or too actively. Milton. "Overlived in this close London life." Mrs. Browning.

Excessive pressure or urging. London Athenæum.

A duty formerly charged in the port of London on goods imported or exported by aliens, or by denizens who were the sons of aliens.

Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc. London Sat. Rev.