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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.

The act or the policy of obstructing progress. Lond. Lit. World.

Obtuseness. Lond. Quart. Rev.

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.

iner. (a) A painter of coats of arms. Crabb. (b) A member of a livery company or guild in London, bearing this name.

um. About this time Pope Gregory sent two archbishop's palls into England, -- the one for London, the other for York. Fuller.

o given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Evelyn.