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White Lion Court
1) South out of Great Tower Street, east of Beer Lane (P.O. Directory). In Tower Ward.
Earliest men...
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Birchin Lane
South out of Cornhill at 35 to No.62 Lombard Street (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill and Langbourn Ward...
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Castle Court, Birchin Lane
East out of Birchin Lane, at No. 23, to St. Michael's Alley. In Cornhill Ward (P.O. Directory).
Fir...
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Sun Court, Birchin Lane
See Bengal Court.
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White Lion Court, Cornhill
North out of Coruhill at No.64 (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward.
First mention: W. Stow, 1722.
F...
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The Bell, Birchin Lane
Messuage called the Bell with a garden situate in parish of St. Edmund the King and Martyr belonging...
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The Scomer, Birchin Lane
A tenement so called in Birchin Lane in the parish of St. Michell in Cornehill, 21 Eliz. 1578 (L.C.C...
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White Lion Square
North out of Old Bethlem at No.16 (Lockie, 1816-Elmes, 1831).
Not named in the maps.
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White Lion Wharf
South out of Upper Thames Street at No.17, west of Paul's Wharf. In Castle Baynard Ward (P.O. Direct...
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Lion
·noun A sign and a constellation; Leo.
II. Lion ·noun An object of interest and curiosity, especial...
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lion
To tip the lion; to squeeze the nose of the party tipped, flat to his face with the thumb. To shew t...
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Lion
"The most powerful, daring and impressive of all carnivorous animals, the most magnificent in aspect...
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Black Lion Court
1) In Old Change (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). In Farringdon Ward Without.
Not named in the maps.
2) In...
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Blue Lion Court
East out of Aldersgate Street at No. 24, in Aldersgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
First mention...
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Golden Lion Court
East out of Aldersgate Street, north of Falcon Street, in Aldersgate Ward Within (O.S. 1880).
First...
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Red Lion Court
1) On the west of Pye Comer (Hatton, 1708).
Not named in the maps.
2) East out of Shoe Lane at No....
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George Alley, Birchin Lane
See Bengal Court.
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Insurance Office, Birchin Lane
See London Insurance Office.
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White Fryars Lane
South out of Whitefriars to the Thames (Leake, 1666).
See Whitefriars Street.
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White Hart Court, Warwick Lane
See White Hart Street.
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White
·noun A white pigment; as, Venice white.
II. White ·superl Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; ...
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White
A symbol of purity (2 Chr. 5:12; Ps. 51:7; Isa. 1:18; Rev. 3:18; 7:14). Our Lord, at his transfigura...
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white
1) to requite ; as, God white you, God requite you. Chesh. Var. Dial.
2) to blame ; you lean all th...
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White Cock Court
East out of Bread Street, in Bread Street Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
Site has been rebuilt...
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White Hall Court
East from the Tower precinct to St. Katherine's lane (Horwood, 1799-Lockie, 1811).
Removed for the ...
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White Hart Court
1) North out of Long Lane, West Smithfield, to the northern boundary of Farringdon Ward Without (Hor...
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White Head Court
In Duke's Place (W. Stow, 1722-P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps.
...
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White Hind Court
1) See Bishopsgate Buildings.
2) West out of Coleman Street, in Coleman Street Ward (Boyle, 1799).
...
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White Horse Court
1) East out of Noble Street, in Aldersgate Ward, between Lillypot Lane and Oat Lane (Strype, 1720 an...
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White Lyon Court
1) East out of Little Bell Alley, in Broad Street Ward (P.C. 1732-Elmes, 1831).
The site is now occ...
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White Rose Court
South out of Widegate Street to Middlesex Street (L.C.C. List, 1912).
First mention: Lockie, 1810.
...
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White Swan Court
In Newgate Street (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps.
Name derived from the sign...
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White Hart, White Hart Court
West out of Bishopsgate, at No, 119, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (P.O. Directory).
The date 1480 wa...
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Cock and Lion Court
On the south side of Cornhill at No. 41, east of Birchin Lane (Lockie, 1816).
...
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Red Lion Court, Minories
East out of Minories, west of Morley's Court (P.C. 1732-O.S. 25 in. 1880). In Portsoken Ward.
On th...
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Fetter Lane Court
In Barnard's Inn (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Tennis Court Lane
See Joiners' Hall Buildings.
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White Bear, Botolph Lane
See The Bear1.
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Ant-lion
·noun A neuropterous insect, the larva of which makes in the sand a pitfall to capture ants, ·etc. T...
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Aphis lion
·- The larva of the lacewinged flies (Chrysopa), which feeds voraciously upon aphids. The name is al...
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Lion-heart
·noun A very brave person.
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Lion-hearted
·adj Very brave; brave and magnanimous.
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Sea lion
·- Any one of several large species of seals of the family Otariidae native of the Pacific Ocean, es...
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Golden Lion
The signe of the Golding Lyon, which is some twelve houses short of Ave Mary lane (S. 314). In Pater...
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Lion Key
See Lyon Key.
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The Red Lion
A tenement and 2 acres of land in Holburne formerly called "le Kage," afterwayds " le Kynges Hede," ...
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essex lion
A calf; Essex being famous for calves, and chiefly supplying the London markets.
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marsupial lion
See pouched-lion
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pouched-lion
or Marsupial Lion
n.
a large extinct Phalanger (q.v.), Thylacoleocarnifex, Owen. The popular name ...
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sea-lion
A large seal of the genus Otaria, distinguished from the sea-bear, to which it otherwise has a great...
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Black and White Court
South out of Fleet Lane to Belle Savage Inn and the Old Bailey (Leake, 1666-Elmes, 1831).
Strype de...
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Great White Bear Court
North out of Thames Street in Blackfriars, west of Addle Hill, in Castle Baynard Ward (P.C. 1732).
...
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Little White Bear Court
North out of Thames Street, in the precinct of Blackfriars (P. C. 1732-Dodsley, 1761).
Not named in...
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White Horse Court, Inn
North out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Hatton, 1708-L. Guide, 1758).
Site now occup...
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Lane
·adj <<Alone>>.
II. Lane ·noun A passageway between fences or hedges which is not traveled as a hig...
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lane
"Make a lane there!" An order for men to open a passage and allow a person to pass through.
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Red Lion Place, Cock Lane
See Red Lion Buildings.
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Court
·noun The session of a judicial assembly.
II. Court ·noun Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecc...
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Court
The enclosure of the tabernacle (Ex. 27:9-19; 40:8), of the temple (1 Kings 6:36), of a prison (Neh....
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court
In New England this word is applied to a legislative body composed of a House of Representatives and...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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Court
(Heb. chatser), an open enclosure surrounded by buildings, applied in the Authorized Version most co...
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Angel Court, Golden Lane
East out of Golden Lane near the northern boundary of The City (Lockie, 1810 ; Elmes, 1831). In Crip...
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Angel Court, Stoney Lane
North out of Stoney Lane, the third turning west from Middlesex Street (Rocque, 1746). In Portsoken ...
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Baker's Court, Warwick Lane
East out of Warwick Lane, in Castle Baynard Ward (O. and M. 1677).
Now " Crown Court " (q.v.).
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Ball Court, Mincing Lane
Out of Mincing Lane (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Ball Court, Petticoat Lane
Out of Petticoat Lane (Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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Bartholomew Court, Gravel Lane
North out of Gravel Lane, between Petticoat Lane and Gravel Lane (Rocque, 1746). In Portsoken Ward.
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Braben Court, Philpot Lane
See Brabant Court.
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Broven's Court, Philpot Lane
See Brabant Court.
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Castle Court, Lawrence Lane
West out of Lawrence Lane at No. 22. In Cheap Ward and Cripplegate Ward Within (P.O. Directory).
Fi...
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Cooper's Court, Foster Lane
See Half Moon Alley.
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Crown Court, Foster Lane
See Three Crown Court.
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Dissell Court, Beech Lane
See Dizzle's Court.
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Dunstan's Court, Mincing Lane
See Dunster Court.
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Fen Court, Miles' Lane
See Fann Court.
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Fox Court, Cow Lane
See Fox and Knot Court.
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Fox Court, Nicholas Lane
See Fox Ordinary Court.
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Garden Court, Petticoat Lane
See Garden Place, Hutchison Avenue and Seven Step Alley.
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George Court, Cloak Lane
See Maid Court.
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George Court, Gravel Lane
North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former names : "New Ge...
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George Court, Seacoal Lane
See St. George's Lane.
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George Court, Stoney Lane
North out of Stoney Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Horwood, 1799 to O.S. 25 in. 1880).
Built towards the ...
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Green's Court, Bride Lane
See Green's Rents.
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Horn Court, Basing Lane
See Harts Horn Court.
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Inkhorne Court, Petticoat Lane
See Petticoat Square.
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Katherine Court, Seething Lane
See Catherine Court2.
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Lamb's Court, Abchurch Lane
See Lamb Court.
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Maidenhead Court, Maiden Lane
See Doby Court.
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Mairmaid Court, Warwick Lane
See Mermaid Court.
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Miter Court, Huggin Lane
See Myter Court.
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New Court, Gravel Lane
-East out of New Street, Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Bacon's map, 1912).
Earliest mention: O.S....
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Robinswood Court, Bow Lane
See Robin Hood Court.
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Ship Court, Bartholomew Lane
See Capel Court.
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Star Court, Nightingale Lane
West out of Nightingale Lane (Horwood, 1799).
Former names : " Willow-tree Yard " (Strype, 1720, an...
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Vine Court, Gravel Lane
North-west out of Gravel Lane. In Portsoken Ward
(Strype, 1720-Lond. Guide, 1758).
Removed before ...
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Whalebone Court, Bow Lane
See Half Moon Court.
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White Bear Alley, Rosemary Lane
See Bell Alley, Little Tower Hill.
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White Hart Alley, Long Lane
See White Hart Court.
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White Horse Yard, Seething Lane
East out of Seething Lane, south of the Navy Office (Rocque, 1746-Boyle, 1799).
Former name: "Carr ...
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White Lyon Yard, Cow Lane
See White Lion Court3.
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Cream-white
·adj As white as cream.
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Snow-white
·adj White as snow; very white.
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Water-white
·noun A vinelike plant (Vitis Caribaea) growing in parched districts in the West Indies, and contain...
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White elephant
·add. ·- Something requiring much care and expense and yielding little profit; any burdensome posses...
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White fly
·add. ·- Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to s...
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White friar
·- A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. ·see ...
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White horse
·add. ·- A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper ja...
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White list
·add. ·- The official list of all transactions, published daily on white paper, divided into sales f...
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White mustard
·add. ·- A kind of mustard (Sinapis alba) with rough-hairy foliage, a long-beaked hispid pod, and pa...
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White person
·add. ·- A person of the Caucasian race (6 Fed. Rep. 256).
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White plague
·add. ·- Tuberculosis, ·esp. of the lungs.
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White slave
·add. ·- A woman held in involuntary confinement for purposes of prostitution; loosely, any woman fo...
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White slaver
·add. ·- A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White slaving
·add. ·- The action of one who procures or holds a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
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White-blaze
·noun ·see White-face.
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White-ear
·noun The <<Wheatear>>.
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White-eye
·noun Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops pal...
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White-face
·noun A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose;
— called also white-b...
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White-foot
·noun A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
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White-fronted
·adj Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur.
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White-heart
·noun A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
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White-hot
·adj White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
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White-limed
·adj Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
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White-livered
·adj Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
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White-pot
·noun A kind of food made of milk or cream, eggs, sugar, bread, ·etc., baked in a pot.
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White-water
·noun A dangerous disease of sheep.
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White, Gilbert
(1720-1793)
Naturalist, b. at Selborne, Hants, and ed. along with the Wartons (q.v.) at their fathe...
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White Bear
In Abchurch Lane.
Destroyed in the Fire 1666.
Rebuilt as " Pontack's," for many years a famous tav...
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White Bull
Hostel so called in Westmythfeld, 1445 (Cal. L. Bk. K. p.310).
Not further identified.
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White Cross
In an Inquisition 3 Ed. I. mention is made of water coming down from Smethefeld del Barbican in the ...
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The White Hart
1) Tenement called the "Sygne de le Whyte Harte " in Westchepe in parish of St. Mary Colchurch, betw...
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The White Harte
1) A messuage so called lying in St. Nicholas Fleshambles in parish of Christchurch, 1568 (Lond. I. ...
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The White Horse
1) A messuage in Holborne and Fetter Lane, 33 Eliz. (Lond. I p.m. III. 153).
Qy. = White Horse Alle...
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White Street
West out of Moorfields, at No.39, to Moor Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cripplegate Ward Without.
First...
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The White Swan
A messuage called the White Swan. In Great Eastcheap in parish of St. Leonard upon Fish street hill,...
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White Yard
Out of Lamb Alley, in Bishopsgate Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I ii 108-Boyle, 1799).
The site i...
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lily white
A chimney-sweeper.
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white feather
He has a white feather; he is a coward; an allusion to a game cock, where having a white leather is ...
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white-livered
Cowardly, malicious.
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white lie
A harmless lie, one not told with a malicious intent, a lie told to reconcile people at variance.
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white serjeant
A man fetched from the tavern or ale-house by his wife, is said to be arrested by the white serjeant...
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white swelling
A woman big with child is said to have a white swelling.
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maori, white
New Zealand miners' name for a stone. See quotation.
1883. `A Citizen,' `Illustrated Guide to Duned...
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plum, white
n.
local name for Acacia (q.v.).
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white-bream
See silver-bream
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white wood
See waddy wood
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white-eye
n.
another name for the bird calledvariously Silver-Eye, Wax-Eye, Blight-Bird, etc., Zosterops (q.v...
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white-face
n.
a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...
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white gallinule
n.
one of the birds of thefamily called Rails. The White Gallinule wasrecorded from New South Wales...
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white-head
n.
a bird of New Zealand, Clitonyx albicapilla, Buller. Found in North Island,but becoming very rar...
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white-pointer
n.
a New South Wales name forthe White-Shark. See Shark.
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white-top
n.
another name for Flintwood (q.v.).
...
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white-trevally
n.
an Australian fish.See Trevally.
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish and Fisheries of NewSout...
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white nib
a rook. Yorksh.
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white bite
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
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white bait or bite
The Clupea alba, a well-known fish caught in the Thames, but strictly a sea-fish, erroneously held t...
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white caps
Waves with breaking crests, specially between the east end of Jamaica and Kingston; but obtaining ge...
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white feather
The figurative symbol of cowardice: a white feather in a cock's tail being considered a proof of cro...
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white-fish
A fish of the salmon family, found in the lakes of North America; also a name of the hard-head (whic...
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white-herring
A pickled herring in the north, but in other parts a fresh herring is so called.
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white-horse
A name of the Raia fullonica. (See also white caps.)
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white-lappelle
A sobriquet for a lieutenant, in allusion to his former uniform. (See lappelle.)
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white-rope
Rope which has not been tarred. Manilla, coir, and some other ropes, do not require tarring.
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white squall
A tropical wind said to give no warning; it sweeps the surface with spoon-drift.
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white-tape
A term amongst smugglers for hollands or gin.
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white-water
That which is seen over extensive sandy patches, where, owing to the limpidity and shallowness of th...
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White Hart Court, Leadenhall Street
See White Hart Alley.
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White Hart Court, Middlesex Street
Near Inkhorn Court, Petticoat Lane. In Portsoken Ward (Strype, ed. 1720, I. ii. 28).
Not named in t...
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White Rose Court, Coleman Street
See Masons' Avenue.
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Black Lion Inn
West out of Water Lane, Whitefriars, in Farringdon Ward Without (Strype, ed. 1720, I. iii. 279-Locki...
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Black Lion Yard
See Black Lyon Yard, Stoney Lane, Houndsditch.
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Red Lion Alley
See Red Lion Court, Minories.
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Red Lion Buildings
On the south side of Cock Lane at No.6 (P.O. Directory), extending to the back of St. Sepulchre's Ch...
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Red Lion Passage
1) South out of Cloth Fair at No.22 (P.O. Directory). In Farringdon Ward Without.
First mention: Bo...
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Red Lion Street
See Red Lion Passage1, Cloth Fair.
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Red Lion Wharf
Between Bell Wharf east and Three Cranes Wharf west. In Vintry Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention...
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king's wood lion
An Ass. Kingswood is famous for the great number of asses kept by the colliers who inhabit that plac...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Red Lion Court, St. Katherine 's
West out of St. Katherine's Lane, north of Flemings Church Yard (P.C. 1732-Lockie, 1810).
Removed f...
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Gother Lane, Gotherun Lane
See Gutter Lane.
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Lymbarneres Lane, Lymbrenneres Lane
See Limeburners' Alley, Lane.
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Synechenes Lane, Synedene Lane
See Seething Lane.
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Green Arbour Court, Seething Lane
See Catherine Court.
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Hockin's Court, St. Michael's Lane
See Hawkin's Court.
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Hucker's Court, St. Nicholas Lane
See Hooker's Court.
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Kiffits' Court, St Michael's Lane
See Three Tun Court.
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New Pump Court, Moor Lane
See Pump Court.
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Robin-wood's Court, Shoe Lane
See Robin Hood Court.
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Three Hard Court, Creechurch Lane
See Three Herring Court.
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Trinity Court, Little Trinity Lane
See Trinity Place.
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White Bear Court, Aldgate High Street
See White Bear Alley.
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White Horse Court, Old Broad Street
See Union Court; White Horse Inn, Yard.
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White Horse Court, Royal Mint Street
North out of Royal Mint Street in the parish of St. Mary Whitechapel (P.C. 1732-O.S. 25 in. 1880). F...
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By-lane
·noun A private lane, or one opening out of the usual road.
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Amen Lane
Added to Creed Lane, betwixt the south end of Warwicke Lane and the north end of Ave Mary Lane (S. 3...
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(St.) Andrew's Lane
See St. Andrew Hubbard Lane.
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