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Powder
·vt To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
II. Powder ·vi To use powder on the hair or skin; as, ...
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powder
See gunpowder.
...
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House
·vt To drive to a shelter.
II. House ·noun The <<Grave>>.
III. House ·noun A public house; an inn;...
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House
Till their sojourn in Egypt the Hebrews dwelt in tents. They then for the first time inhabited citie...
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house
or tenement, to let
A widow's weeds; also an atchievement marking the death of a husband, set up on...
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house
the house, the room called the hall. N.
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House
The houses of the rural poor in Egypt, as well as in most parts of Syria, Arabia and Persia, are gen...
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Atlas powder
·add. ·- A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and ma...
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Dover's Powder
·- A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in Englan...
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Goa powder
·- A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (A...
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James's powder
·- Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician;
— called also fever powder...
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Powder-posted
·adj Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. ·see Dry rot, under <<Dry>>.
...
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Smokeless powder
·add. ·- A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
...
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Vulcan powder
·add. ·- A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), an...
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powder monkey
A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine.
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corned powder
Powder granulated from the mill-cakes and sifted.
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corryne powder
Corn-powder, a fine kind of gunpowder.
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cylinder powder
That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...
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filling powder
Taking gunpowder from the casks to fill cartridges, when lights and fires should be extinguished.
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glazed powder
Gunpowder of which the grains, by friction against one another in a barrel worked for the purpose, h...
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grained powder
That corned or reduced into grains from the cakes, and distinguished from mealed powder, as employed...
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morsing powder
An old term for priming powder.
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pellet-powder
Has its grains much larger and smoother, and is intended to act more gradually than service gunpowde...
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pit-powder
That made with charcoal which has been burned in pits, not in cylinders.
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powder, to
To salt meat slightly; as Falstaff says, "If thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder m...
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powder-bags
Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...
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powder-hoy
An ordnance vessel expressly fitted to convey powder from the land magazine to a ship; it invariably...
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powder-magazine
The prepared space allotted for the powder on board ship.
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powder-monkey
Formerly the boy of the gun, who had charge of the cartridge; now powder-man.
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powder-vessel
A ship used as a floating magazine.
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serpentine powder
An old term for a peculiar granulated gunpowder.
...
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corns of powder
The small grains that gunpowder consists of. The powder reduced for fire-works, quill-tubes, &c.; so...
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Apartment house
·add. ·- A building comprising a number of suites designed for separate housekeeping tenements, but ...
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Doss house
·add. ·- A cheap lodging house.
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Full house
·add. ·- A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a...
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Lombar-house
·noun A bank or a pawnbroker's shop.
II. Lombar-house ·noun A public institution for lending money ...
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Lombard-house
·noun ·Alt. of Lombar-house.
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Moot-house
·noun A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
...
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Sugar-house
·noun A building in which sugar is made or refined; a sugar manufactory.
...
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Tippling-house
·noun A house in which liquors are sold in drams or small quantities, to be drunk on the premises.
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Tiring-house
·noun A tiring-room.
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Treasure-house
·noun A house or building where treasures and stores are kept.
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Trugging-house
·noun A <<Brothel>>.
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Weigh-house
·noun A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed.
...
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Dagon's house
(1 Sam. 5:2), or Beth-dagon, as elsewhere rendered (Josh. 15: 41; 19:27), was the sanctuary or templ...
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Draught-house
(2 Kings 10:27). Jehu ordered the temple of Baal to be destroyed, and the place to be converted to t...
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Shearing-house
(2 Kings 10:12, 14; marg., "house of shepherds binding sheep." R.V., "the shearing-house of the shep...
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Abergavenny House
See Stationers' Hall and Pembrook's Inn.
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Africa House
On the south side of Leadenhall Street, Nos. 44 to 46, east of Billiter Street. In Aldgate Ward.
Fi...
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African House
See Africa House.
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Amen House
Mentioned 1641 (L. and P. Chas. I. XVIII. p. 164).
Not further identified.
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Bacon House
In Noble Street on the boundary of Aldersgate Ward Within. Formerly called Shelly House, as of old b...
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Bangor House
The town house of the Bishops of Bangor, in Shoe Lane.
It seems to be mentioned in 1349 as " Bancor...
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Bath House
See Minories.
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Belfounder's House
A tenement so-called in Hundesdiche in parish of St. Botulph Without, Aldgate, 1540 (L. and P. H. VI...
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Bergavenny House
See Stationers' Hall.
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Bloomfield House
In Bloomfield Court, King Street, West Smithfield (L.C.C. List, 1912). In Farringdon Ward Without.
...
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Brew House
West out of the Minories in Rocque's map, 1746, between the Minories Street. In Portsoken Ward.
Sit...
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(St.) Bride's House
See Bell's Buildings.
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Bridge House
A dwelling-house attached to St. Thomas' Chapel on London Bridge, and quite distinct from the Bridge...
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Bridgewater House
On the north side of the Barbican. The house of the Earl of Bridgewater (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1720...
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Brooke House
On the north side of Holborn on the site now occupied by Brooke Street (q.v.).
Accounts Commissione...
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Buckingham House
On the west side of College Hill, in Vintry Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720).
So called as be...
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Burgavenny House
See Stationers' Hall.
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Burley House
In Thames Street, between Baynard's Castle and Paul's Wharf in Castle Baynard Ward (S. 366), next to...
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Candle House
Messuage west of the Brick House called the "Candle Howse" within the site of the late priory or new...
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Caroone House
See Fleet Prison.
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Charsey House
See Chartesey House.
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Chartesey House
A messuage so called in parish of St. Peter beside Paulys Wharfe, 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L. and P. H. VII...
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Chicheley's House
See Bakers' Hall.
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Colonial House
No. 155 Fenchurch Street (P.O. Directory). In Langbourne Ward, nearly opposite Rood Lane.
Occupies ...
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(Sir William) Craven's House
See East India House.
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Custom House
On the south side of Lower Thames Street. In Tower Ward (P.O Directory).
Erected on this site 1814-...
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Darby House
Next adjoining Woodmongers' Hall is Darby House, sometime belonging to the Stanleys. Thomas Stanley,...
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Dashwood House
At No. 9 New Broad Street (P.O. Directory).
Commemorates the name of Francis Dashwood, Alderman, 16...
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Denmark House
In Fenchurch Street. The house in which the Russian ambassador was lodged in the time of Queen Mary ...
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Derby House
See Darby House.
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Devonshire House
On the east side of Bishopsgate Street, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
This was the ...
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Dominion House
See (Mr. Thos.) Papillon's House.
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Dorchester House
See London House.
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Dorset House
See Dorset Court, Dorset Street, Whitefriars.
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Drewry House
See (Hostel of Abbot of) Ramsey.
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Ely House
The inn or hostel of the Bishop of Ely in Holborn (S. 388).
Granted by John de Kyrkeby, Bishop of E...
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Ethelburga House
On the west side of Bishopsgate, at 91 and 93 (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Within.
First m...
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Fermes House
A messuage so called in parish of St. Sepulchre, 31, Eliz. 1583 (Lond. I. p.m. III. 345).
Not furth...
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Garter House
See College of Arms.
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Glass House
In the centre of Glass House Yard, Goodman's Yard. Partly in Portsoken Ward (O. and M. 1677 to Elmes...
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Gresham House
On the east side of Old Broad Street at No. 24, with an entrance from Bishopsgate (P.O. Directory). ...
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Griste's House
At the west end of Tower Street near Mincing Lane, a turning runs north to a house belonging formerl...
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Hamilton House
On the west side of Bishopsgate Street at No. 155 (P.O. Directory).
In L.C.C. List, 1901.
A large ...
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Hatton House
In parish of St. Andrew Holborn, being the dwelling-house of Sir Edward Coke, 2 Jas. I. (Middlesex S...
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The Hede House
A messuage so called in Smythfield in parish of St. Sepulchre without Newgate, 23 H. VII. (Anc. Deed...
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Heneadge House
Mentioned in the description of the bounds of the parish of St. Katherine Creechurch, opposite to Du...
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Heydon House
See Haydon Square.
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Howard House
Some of the buildings of the late dissolved Charterhouse were so named by Thomas Howard in 1569 and ...
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Huntington House
See Beaumondes Inn.
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India House
See East India House.
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Lauderdale House
See Lauderdale Buildings.
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London House
On the west side of Aldersgate Street, adjoining Bartholomew Close west, in Aldersgate Without and F...
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Lumley House
See Lord Lumley's House.
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Mansion House
At the junction of the Poultry and Cornhill on the south side, opposite Mansion House Street (P.O. D...
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Middlesex House
See Middlesex Passage.
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Mousetrap House
See Fleur de lis Court1, Fetter Lane.
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(Lord) Nevill's House
See Greene Yard, near Leadenhall.
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Nofolk House
No. 7 Laurence Pountney Hill. Occupied as extensive offices and chambers (P.O. Directory).
...
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Nonsuch House
On the seventh and eighth arches from the Southwark end of Old London Bridge. Perhaps the most beaut...
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Northumberland House
On the west side of St. Martin's Lane (now St. Martin le Grand), in the parish of SS. Anne and Agnes...
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Palmerston House
A large block of offices and chambers on the west side of Bishops-gate, at No.51 (P.O. Directory). I...
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(Mr. Thos.) Papillon's House
On the north side of Fenchurch Street. In Aldgate Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Site seems now occupied by...
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Peter House
See London House, Aldersgate Street.
...
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(Sir Paul) Pindar's House
No. 169 Bishopsgate, in Bishopsgate Ward Without. Ralph Pindar acquired the site in 1597 and the hou...
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Post House
At the junction of Threadneedle Street and Cornhill opposite the Stocks (Leake, 1666).
The site is ...
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Powlet House
1) See Winchester House.
2) On the east side of Bishopsgate, between the Dolphin and Fisher's Folly...
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Sackville House
See Salisbury Court, Fleet Street.
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Salisbury House
In parish of St. Mary "Botulphi" in ward of Walbroke, 30 H. VIII 1538 (L. and P. Hen. VIII. XIII. Pt...
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(Sir Nicholas) Salter's, House
See (Sir Francis) Walsingham House.
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Sandie House
See Chartesey House.
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Scalding House
1) In the parish of St. Mildred in the Poultry near le Stokkes, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 33).
Wm. Otes le...
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Sharington House
Capital messuage called "Sharington House" forfeited to King Edward VI. which house the king gave to...
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Shelley House
See Bacon House, Noble Street.
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Shunamites' House
In Watling Street.
A house of entertainment provided for the use of preachers at Paul's Cross in th...
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Southampton House
On the east side of Chancery Lane, outside the City boundary.
Liberties and bounds to be extended f...
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(Lord) Sowches' House
On the south side of Leadenhall Street, next to Benbridges Inn (S. 153). In Lime Street Ward.
Site ...
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Spital House
Bequest for repair of highway between the Spittle howse and Highegate and the corner of S. Jones's w...
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Le Spurrers' House
See Sporier's Inn.
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Stationers' House
Or the Black Spread Eagle in Fleet Street, against St. Dunstan's Church, 1653 (H. MSS. Corn. 7th Rep...
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Suffolk House
No. 5 Laurence Pountney Hill, forming large offices and chambers (P.O. Directory).
...
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Sussex House
On the south side of Leadenhall Street, No.52 (P.O. Directory). In Aldgate Ward.
"Sussex Hall" (O. ...
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Thanet House
On the east side of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (O. and M. 1677-Strype, ed. 1720 a...
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Trinity House
On the north side of Tower Hill (P.O. Directory).
Built 1793-5. Architect, S. Wyatt.
Site bccupied...
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(Sir Francis) Walsingham House
On the north-eastern boundary of Tower Ward. Now Sir Nicholas Salter's. In Seething Lane (Strype, ed...
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Watch House
At the south-east corner of St. Sepulchre's Church Yard on the north side of Snow Hill (Strype, ed. ...
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Whitchurch House
See Africa House.
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Winchester House
See Winchester Place.
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Windsor House
See Nevill's Inn.
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(Sir William) Winter's House
See St. Mary de Berkyngcherch, Chapel.
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Worcester House
1) William, earl of Worcester, was seised of the capital messuage called "Worcester place" in the pa...
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York House
Wheatley says Baynard's Castle was known by this name, Richard Duke of York having lodged there in 1...
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(Lord de la) Zouches', House
See (Lord) Sowches' House.
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bog house
The necessary house. To go to bog; to go to stool.
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coffee house
A necessary house. To make a coffee-house of a woman's ****; to go in and out and spend nothing.
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flying house
A lock in wrestling, by which he who uses it throws his adversary over his head.
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hen house
A house where the woman rules; called also a SHE HOUSE, and HEN FRIGATE: the latter a sea phrase, or...
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light house
A man with a red fiery nose.
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louse house
The round house, cage, or any other place of confinement.
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lumber house
A house appropriated by thieves for the reception of their stolen property.
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nanny house
A brothel.
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nugging-house
A brothel.
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ox house
He must go through the ox house to bed; a saying of an old fellow who marries a young girl.
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she house
A house where the wife rules, or, as the term is, wears the breeches.
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steeple house
A name given to the church by Dissenters.
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block-house
A small fort built of logs which project some six or eight feet over a wooden or stone foundation, f...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cubby-house
A snug place for a child. Common to various English dialects.--Barnes's Dorset Glossary. Seldom hear...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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house-hunting
In the city of New York all houses are let from the 1st day of May, and the landlords have assumed t...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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house-warmlng
A feast, or merry-making, upon going into a new house.--Johnson.
Overeat himself at a housewarming....
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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still-house
A common term in the United States for a distillery.
Despise it not, ye Bards to terror steel'd,
W...
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host-house
an ale-house for the reception of lodgers.
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house-place
the common room in a farm house. N.
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cook-house
See cook-house
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cub-house
, or cubboos.
See caboose.
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custom-house
An office established on the frontiers of a state, or in some chief city or port, for the receipt of...
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deck-house
An oblong-house on the deck of some merchantmen, especially east-country vessels, and latterly in pa...
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house-cockle
See gawky.
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house, to
To enter within board. To house a topgallant-mast, is to lower it so as to prevent the rigging resti...
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house-boat
One with a cabin; a coche d'eau.
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house-line
See housing
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hurricane-house
Any building run up for temporary purposes; the name is occasionally given to the round-house on a v...
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kub-house
, or cubboos.
See caboose.
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mast-house
In dockyards, where masts are made.
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pitch-house
A place set apart for the boiling of pitch for the seams and bottoms of vessels.
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rope-house
A long building in a dockyard, where ropes are made.
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round-house
A name given in East Indiamen and other large merchant ships, to square cabins built on the after-pa...
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rudder-house
Synonymous with wheel-house.
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wheel-house
A small round-house erected in some ships over the steering-wheel for the shelter of the helmsman.
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Anabaptist Meeting House
1) See Pinners' Hall.
2) On the east side of Maidenhead Court, north of Great Eastcheap. In Candlew...
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Bridge House Court
West out of Gracechurch Street, at No. 37, opposite Talbot Court (Lockie, 1816).
Shown in Horwood, ...
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Bridge House Rents
On the north side of Newgate Street, opposite Warwick Lane, in 1546 and 1617, shown in a "plat of th...
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Cannon Street House
On the south side of Cannon Street at No. 110 (P.O. Directory), between Martin's Lane and Lawrence P...
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Chapter House Court
North out of St. Paul's Churchyard at No. 67, north of the Chapter House, and west to Paul's Alley (...
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Coffee House Alley
South out of Upper Thames Street, at No. 56 (Rocque, 1746-L.C.C. List, 1912).
In Queenhithe Ward, n...
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Coffee House Court
In Moorfields (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Compting House Court
See Counting House Yard.
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Counting House Yard
South from the Town Ditch to Christ Church, on the east side of Christ's Hospital (Rocque, 1746). In...
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Custom House Court
West out of Beer Lane. In Tower Ward (O. and M. 1677-Elmes, 1831).
Part of the site was occupied by...
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Custom House Quay
See Custom House and Wool Quay and Custom House Wharf.
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Custom House Wharf
In front of the Custom House, facing the Thames (O.S. 1894-6 ; and Bacon, 1912).
First mention: O.S...
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Dark House Lane
1) South out of the eastern end of High Timber Street to the Thames. In Queenhithe Ward (Horwood, 17...
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Devonshire House Garden
See Devonshire Square.
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East India House
At the north-west corner of Lime Street (Horwood, 1799), extending to Leadenhall Market. In Lime Str...
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India House Yard
West out of Lime Street at the south side of the East India House. In Lime Street Ward (Rocque, 1746...
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Jamaica Coffee House
In St. Michael's Alley on the east side, next the Church Tower, 1863.
Built over the south cloister...
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Jerusalem Coffee-House
In Cowper's Court, Cornhill. For merchants trading to the East Indies, China and Australia. Taken do...
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King's Printing House
In Blackfriars, 1643-4 (L. and P. Chas. I. XIX. p. 12).
Burnt down 1742, but rebuilt and made the c...
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King's Weigh House
See Weigh House, Eastcheap.
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Lady Bitch's House
Opposite Banister's Court, now or later the dwelling of Dr. Salmon, a good large building, with a gr...
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London Coffee House
On the north side of Ludgate Hill at No. 42, west of St. Martin, Ludgate, in Farringdon Ward Without...
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London House Yard
1) North out of St. Paul's Churchyard, at Nos. 74 and 79, to Paternoster Row (P.O. Directory). In Ca...
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Lord Lumley's House
On the north side of Tower Hill (S. 132), at the south-west end of Woodruffe Lane. Next to Milborne'...
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Mansion House Buildings
On the north side of Queen Victoria Street at No. 2 (P.O. Directory).
First mention: L.C.C. List, 1...
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