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A table waiter at the Inns of Court, London.

n or near a city or town, inclosed and kept for ornament and recreation; as, Hyde Park in London; Central Park in New York.

wing- room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.

The theory or practice of paternal government. See Paternal government, under Paternal. London Times.

obstacles even such as steps or stairs. The pedrail was invented by one B. J. Diplock of London, Eng.

The doctrines or philosophical system of the peripatetics. See Peripatetic, n., 2. Lond. Sat. Rev.

To hold or advocate the doctrine of pessimism. London Sat. Rev.

after it has been placed on the ground. -- Place name, the name of a place or locality. London Academy. -- To give place, to make room; to yield; to give way; to give advantage. "Neither give place to the devil." Eph. iv. 27. "Let all the rest give place." Shak. -- To have place, to have a station, room, or seat; a…

the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mark of the plague; hence, a token of something incurable.

An angle in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, London; -- so called because it contains the tombs of Chaucer, Spenser, Dryden, Ben Jonson, Gray, Tennyson, Browning, and other English poets, and memorials to many buried elsewhere.

ubject; -- often with up. Thoroughly posted up in the politics and literature of the day. Lond. Sat. Rev. To post off, to put off; to delay. [Obs.] "Why did I, venturously, post off so great a business" Baxter. -- To post over, to hurry over. [Obs.] Fuller.

fore the Lord. 1 Sam. i. 15. Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. Ezek. vii. 8. London doth pour out her citizens ! Shak. Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand Milton.

use of the Knights Templars, subordinate to the temple or principal house of the order in London. See Commandery, n., 2.

character of; as. It is with Shelley's biographers qua biographers that we have to deal. London Spectator.

uity, unequaled and inimitable; . . . a purity always simple, and raciness often elegant. London Times.

To range in a line. [Obs.] They were brought to London all railed in ropes, like a team of horses in a cart. Bacon.

ing friends, and the way to make reckonings even is to make them often. South. He quitted London, never to return till the day of a terrible and memorable reckoning had arrived. Macaulay.

es and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.

sually protracted. Ten guineas a day is the highest refresher which a counsel can charge. London Truth.

me or domicile. "Near the residence of Posthumus." Shak. Johnson took up his residence in London. Macaulay.