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Land. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The capital city of England. London paste (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and other morbid enlargements. -- London pride. (Bot.) (a) A garden name for Saxifraga umbrosa, a hardy perennial herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great Britain. (b) A na…

A neutral tint given to spectacles, shade glasses for optical instruments, etc., which reduces the intensity without materially changing the color of the transmitted light.

The Sweet William (Dianthus barbatus).

A native or inhabitant of London. Shak.

A characteristic of Londoners; a mode of speaking peculiar to London.

To impart to (one) a manner or character like that which distinguishes Londoners.

Allhallows. [Obs.] Shak.

A variety of clay ironstone, in Staffordshire, England, used for making tools.

Of a fair color; light-colored; as, blond hair; a blond complexion.

A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [Written also blond.]

The state of being blond. G. Eliot.

A garland. [Obs.]

A garland; a prize. [Obs.] Chapman.

t; to emphasize. In Bosnia, the struggle between East and West was even more accentuated. London Times.

; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle. "A laudable account of the city of London." Howell.

A duty payable to the lord mayor of London by the sellers of ale within the city.

ook to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

all this is long of you." Shak. "This increase of price is all along of the foreigners." London Punch.

r Alsace in Germany, or of Alsatia or White Friars (a resort of debtors and criminals) in London.