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Assurance
·noun Betrothal; affiance.
II. Assurance ·noun Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his ass...
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Assurance
The resurrection of Jesus (Acts 17:31) is the "assurance" (Gr. pistis, generally rendered "faith") o...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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assurance
(See marine insurance.) Conveyance or deed: in which light Shakspeare makes Tranio say that his fath...
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Phoenix
PHOENIX(Φοίνιξ). 1. A river of Malis, flowing into the Asopus, S. of the latter...
Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography
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phoenix
phoenix, īcis (acc. Phoenica, Ov. M. 15, 393), m., the phoenix , a fabulous bird in Arabia. It was ...
A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.
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Phoenix
Phoenix, īcis, a Phoenician; v. 1. Phoenice, A.
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phoenix
phoenīx īcis (acc.īca, O.), m the phoenix, a fabulous bird, O.
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Phoenix
·noun A genus of palms including the date tree.
II. Phoenix ·noun ·same·as <<Phenix>>.
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Co-
·- A form of the prefix com-, signifying with, together, in conjunction, joint. It is used before vo...
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Fire
·vt To drive by fire.
II. Fire ·vt To <<Cauterize>>.
III. Fire ·vi To be irritated or inflamed wit...
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Fire
1) For sacred purposes. The sacrifices were consumed by fire (Gen. 8:20). The ever-burning fire on t...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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to fire
To fling with the hand, as a stone or other missile.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire!
The order to put the match to the priming, or pull the trigger of a cannon or other fire-arm so as t...
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Fire
is represented as the symbol of Jehovah's presence and the instrument of his power, in the way eithe...
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Phoenix Court
1) West out of Butcher Row at No.38. In St. Katherine's precinct (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1810).
Remov...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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phoenix-men
Firemen belonging to an insurance office, which gave a badge charged with a phoenix: these men were ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Co-allies
·pl of Co-ally.
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Co-ally
·noun A joint ally.
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Co-assessor
·noun A joint assessor.
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Co-legatee
·noun A joint legatee.
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Co-lessee
·noun A partner in a lease taken.
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Co-lessor
·noun A partner in giving a lease.
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Co-mate
·noun A <<Companion>>.
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Co-meddle
·vt To <<Mix>>; to mingle, to temper.
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Co-regent
·noun A joint regent or ruler.
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Co-relation
·noun Corresponding relation.
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Co-religionist
·noun One of the same religion with another.
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Co-respondent
·noun One who is called upon to answer a summons or other proceeding jointly with another.
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Co-sufferer
·noun One who suffers with another.
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Co-une
·vt To combine or unite.
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Co-unite
·adj United closely with another.
II. Co-unite ·vt To <<Unite>>.
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co-latitude
The abbreviation for complement of latitude, or what it is short of 90°.
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Amicable Assurance Society
In Serjeant's Inn, Fleet Street.
Incorporated 1706, as an Assurance office (Dodsley, 1761). The Soc...
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Anthony's Fire
·- ·see Saint Anthony's Fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Ash-fire
·noun A low fire used in chemical operations.
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Back fire
·add. ·- A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that whe...
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Back-fire
·add. ·vi To have or experience a back fire or back fires;
— said of an internal-combustion engine....
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Elmo's fire
·- ·see <<Corposant>>; also Saint Elmo's Fire, under <<Saint>>.
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Fire beetle
·- A very brilliantly luminous beetle (Pyrophorus noctilucus), one of the elaters, found in Central ...
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Fire-fanged
·adj Injured as by fire; burned;
— said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy ...
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Fire-new
·adj Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.
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Fire-set
·noun A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.
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Knobbling fire
·- A bloomery fire. ·see <<Bloomery>>.
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Pin-fire
·add. ·adj Having a firing pin to explode the cartridge; as, a pin-fire rifle.
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Rapid-fire
·add. ·adj ·Alt. of Rapid-firing.
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Rim-fire
·add. ·adj Having the percussion fulminate in a rim surrounding the base, distinguished from center-...
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fire priggers
Villains who rob at fires under pretence of assisting in removing the goods.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fire ship
A wench who has the venereal disease.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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fire shovel
He or she when young, was fed with a fire shovel; a saying of persons with wide mouths.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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spit fire
A violent, pettish, or passionate person.
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bush-fire
n.
forests and grass on fire in hotsummers.
1868. C. Dilke, `Greater Britain,' vol. ii. part iii. ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fire-stick
n.
name given to thelighted stick which the Australian natives frequently carryabout, when moving f...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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fire-tree
n.
a tree of New Zealand; anothername for Pohutukawa (q.v.). For QueenslandFire-tree, see Tulip-tre...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to fire away
To begin; to go on. An expression borrowed from the language of soldiers and sailors.
A well-known ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire-cracker
A little paper cylinder filled with powder or combustible matter, imported from China. It receives i...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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fire-new
New from the forge; brand-new.--Johnson. This old and nearly obsolete expression is sometimes used b...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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cold fire
a fire laid ready for lighting. York.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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shel fire
electric sparks, often seen on clothes at night. Kent.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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fire-elding
The word Fire is redundant; for Elding itself means fuel.
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fire-flaughts
lightning, or the northern lights. N.
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fire-potter
a poker. Lane.
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concentrated fire
The bringing the whole or several guns to bear on a single point.
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curved fire
A name coming into use with the increasing application of the fire of heavy and elongated shells to ...
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direct fire
One of the five varieties into which artillerists usually divide horizontal fire (which see).
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enfilade fire
Is that which sweeps a line of works or men from one end to the other; it is on land nearly the equi...
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fire-flaire
See fiery-flaw
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fire-arms
Every description of arms that discharge missiles by gunpowder, from the heaviest cannon to a pistol...
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fire-arrows
Missiles in olden times carrying combustibles; much used in the sea-fights of the middle ages.
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fire-away
Go on with your remarks.
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fire-ball
In meteorology, a beautiful phenomenon seen at times, the origin of which is as yet imperfectly acco...
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fire-balls
Are used for destroying vessels run aground, and firing buildings. They are made of a composition of...
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fire-bare
An old term from the Anglo-Saxon for beacon.
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fire-bars
The range fronting a steam-boiler.
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fire-bill
The distribution of the officers and crew in case of the alarm of fire, a calamity requiring judicio...
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fire-booms
Long spars swung out from a ship's side to prevent the approach of fire-ships, fire-stages, or vesse...
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fire-box
A space crossing the whole front of the boiler over the furnace doors, opposite the smoke-box.
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fire-buckets
Canvas, leather, or wood buckets for quarters, each fitted with a sinnet laniard of regulated length...
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fire-door
An access to the fire-place of an engine.
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fire-drake
A meteor, or the Corpo Santo. Also, a peculiar fire-work, which Shakspeare in Henry VIII. thus menti...
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fire-eater
One notoriously fond of being in action; much humbled by iron-clads.
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fire-flaughts
The aurora borealis, or northern lights.
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fire-hearth
The security base of the galley-range and all its conveniences.
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fire-hoops
A combustible invented by the knights of Malta to throw among their besiegers, and afterwards used i...
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fire-lock
Formerly the common name for a musket; the fire-arm carried by a foot-soldier, marine, or small-arm ...
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fire-rafts
Timber constructions bearing combustible matters, used by the Chinese to destroy an enemy's vessel.
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fire-rails
See rails.
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fire-roll
A peculiar beat of the drum to order people to their stations on an alarm of fire. Summons to quarte...
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fire-screens
Pieces of fear-nought, a thick woollen felt put round the hatchways in action.
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fire-ship
A vessel filled with combustible materials, and fitted with grappling-irons, to hook and set fire to...
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fire-swab
The bunch of rope-yarns sometimes secured to the tompion, saturated with water to cool the gun in ac...
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fire-works
See pyrotechny.
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galling-fire
A sustained discharge of cannon, or small arms, which by its execution greatly annoys the enemy.
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grazing-fire
That which sweeps close to the surface it defends.
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gun-fire
The morning or evening guns, familiarly termed "the admiral falling down the hatchway."
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hang-fire
When the priming burns without igniting the cartridge, or the charge does not rapidly ignite after p...
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horizontal fire
From artillery, is that in which the piece is laid either direct on the object, or with but small el...
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plunging fire
A pitching discharge of shot from a higher level, at such an angle that the shot do not ricochet.
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port-fire
A stick of composition, generally burning an inch a minute, used to convey fire from the slow-match ...
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vertical fire
In artillery, that directed upward at such an angle as that it will fall vertically, or nearly so, t...
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Psitta-co-fulvine
·noun A yellow pigment found in the feathers of certain parrots.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Hoare and Co
Premises on the west side of Water Lane, in Farringdon Ward Within (Horwood, 1799).
Site occupied i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Alliance Assurance Co.'s Offices
At the north-east corner of Bartholomew Lane (P.O. Directory). In Broad Street Ward. Founded 1824, o...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Rapid-fire mount
·add. ·- A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun, and fitt...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Flame of fire
Is the chosen symbol of the holiness of God (Ex. 3:2; Rev. 2:18), as indicating "the intense, all-co...
Easton's Bible Dictionary
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Fire Ball Alley
See Partridge Court.
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Fire Ball court
East out of Houndsditch. In Portsoken Ward (25 Eliz. 1583) (Lond. Inq. p.m. III. p. 64) to O.S. 25 i...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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Fire Ball Court
Near First (Aldermanbury) Postern, London Wall (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the map...
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Fire of London
In 1666, from September 2nd to 6th.
Commenced at the house of a baker in Pudding Lane, near London ...
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Sun Fire Office
See Bank Buildings1, Cornhill.
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to fire a slug
To drink a dram.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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hell fire dick
The Cambridge driver of the Telegraph. The favorite companion of the University fashionables, and th...
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elmo's fire, st.
See compasant.
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fire, loss by
Is within the policy of insurance, whether it be by accident, or by the fault of the master or marin...
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fire-and-lights
Nickname of the master-at-arms.
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fire-hearth-carline
The timber let in under the beams on which the fire-hearth stands, with pillars underneath, and choc...
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repeating fire-arm
One by which a number of charges, previously inserted, may be fired off in rapid succession, or afte...
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Burnt in the Fire 1666.
Not further identified.
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false fire, blue flames
A composition of combustibles filled into a wooden tube, which, upon being set fire to, burns with a...
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Hand in Hand Fire Office
At No. 1 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, on the east side (Elmes, 1831).
Est. 1696 in Angel Court, Snow...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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to fire into the wrong flock
is a metaphorical expression used at the West, denoting that one has mistaken his object, as when a ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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to have one's fat in the fire
is to have one's plans frustrated. A vulgar expression borrowed from the vocabulary of the kitchen.
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Carron and London and Continental Steam Wharves, Carron Co
A Wharf on the Thames in East Smithfield, east of Alderman Stairs at 87 to 93 Lower East Smithfield ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.