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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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Cornhill
From Mansion House east to No. 1 Gracechurch Street (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward.
One of the ...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Lion
"The most powerful, daring and impressive of all carnivorous animals, the most magnificent in aspect...
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White Lion Court, Birchin Lane
See Bengal Court.
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Ball Court, Cornhill
South out of Cornhill, at No.38, east of Birchin Lane (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill Ward.
First men...
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Sun Court, Cornhill
North out of Cornhill at No.67, in Cornhill Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: W. Stow, 1722.
F...
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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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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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(St.) Benedict Cornhill
Mentioned temp. H. III. (Anc. Deeds, A. 2122), 2139.
Qy. = Benet (St.) Fink.
...
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Cornhill Ward
One of the twenty-six wards of the City, lying north and south of the high street of Cornhill, from ...
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(St.) Michael's Cornhill
On the south side of Cornhill, in Cornhill Ward, at No. 42 (P.O. Directory). The parish is in Cornhi...
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(St.) Nicholas Cornhill
Messuage and garden in parish of St. Nicholas Cornhill, parcel of the possessions of the late Colleg...
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(St.) Peter Cornhill
On the south side of Cornhill at No.55 (P.O. Directory). In Comhill Ward.
The parish is in Lime Str...
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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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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 ...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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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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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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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white-face
n.
a name applied to the Australianbird, Xerophila leucopsis, Gould. Another species isthe Chestnut...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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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All Hallows, Cornhill
A grant of land by Stephen the prior and the convent of Holy Trinity to John the goldsmith held of t...
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(St.) Andrew super Cornhill
See St. Andrew Undershaft.
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Cardinal Alley, Cornhill
See Swan and Hoop Passage.
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Conduit upon Cornhill
In Cornhill opposite the north end of Change Alley and the eastern side of the Royal Exchange.
Show...
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Cornhill, Soke of
A piece of land in the soke of the bishop "apud Cornhillam" given by Giraldus de Stratford to the Ca...
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Cornhill Wards' School
On the west side of St. Mary Axe, east of Leathersellers' Hall. In Lime Street Ward (O.S. 1875 and 1...
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(St.) Michael's Cornhill Churchyard
Graveyard (disused) on the south side of the Church (Leake, 1666-O.S. 1880).
Stow says there was a ...
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(St.) Peter Cornhill, Churchyard
Graveyard (disused) shown on the south side of the Church (O. and M. 1677-O.S.1880).
...
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Standard in Cornhill
At the east end of Cornhill, where the four streets met, in the middle of the street (S. 189).
It s...
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Tun upon Cornhill
In Cornhill, opposite the north end of Change Alley. Built as a prison for night walkers by Henry le...
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Weigh House, Cornhill
On the north side of Cornhill, for weighing merchandize at the king's beam (S.193).
A master and Po...
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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 Hart Court, Warwick Lane
See White Hart Street.
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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...
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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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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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Cardinal Cap Alley, Cornhill
See Swan and Hoop Passage.
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Pope's Head Alley, Cornhill
North out of Lombard Street, at No.72, to Cornhill at No. 18 (P.O. Directory). In Cornhill and Langb...
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Weigh House Yard, Cornhill
See Sun Court, Cornhill.
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Great White Way
·add. ·- Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about...
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Schwann's white substance
·- The substance of the medullary sheath.
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Taylor-White process
·add. ·- A process (invented about 1899 by Frederick W. Taylor and Maunsel B. White) for giving toug...
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White, Henry Kirke
(1785-1806)
Poet, s. of a butcher at Nottingham. At first assisting his f., next a stocking weaver,...
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White, Joseph Blanco
(1775-1841)
Poet, s. of a merchant, an Irish Roman Catholic resident at Seville, where he was b., b...
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White, Richard Grant
(1822-1885)
Shakespearian scholar, b. in New York State, was long Chief of the Revenue Marine Burea...
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White, WIlliam Hale
(c. 1830)
Novelist, etc. The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford (1885), Mark Rutherford's Deliverance...
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White Bear Alley
West out of Addle Hill, with a passage north to Church Hill, in Castle Baynard Ward (Rocque, 1746-L....
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White Bear Yard
South out of Bride Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (Lockie, 1816)
Not named in the maps.
...
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White Bell Alley
North out of Great Eastcheap, east of St. Clement's Lane. In Candlewick Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype,...
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White Cock Alley
South out of Thames Street to the Thames, west of and leading to Dyers' Hall (O. and M. 1677).
Purc...
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White Fryars Lane
South out of Whitefriars to the Thames (Leake, 1666).
See Whitefriars Street.
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White Fryers Stairs
At the south end of Waterman's Lane on the Thames, west of Whitefriars Dock (Leake, 1666-L. Guide, 1...
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White Hart Alley
South out of Leadenhall Street, in Aldgate Ward (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799). Former name: "White ...
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White Hart Inn
1) On the north side of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without, with a passage to 3 Leg Court (Str...
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White Hart Street
East out of Warwick Lane, at No.25, to Paternoster Square (P.O. Directory). In Castle Baynard Ward.
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White Hind Yard
North out of Fore Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (O. and M., 1677).
See White Hart Inn.
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White Horse Alley
1) South out of Holborn, east of Fetter Lane, in Farringdon Ward Without (O. and M. 1677).
See Stok...
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White Horse Inn
1) On the east side of Wood Street at No.30, in Cripplegate Ward Within (Rocque, 1746-Lockie, 1816)....
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White Horse Yard
1) West out of Coleman Street at No.15, in Coleman Street Ward (P.O. Directory).
First mention: Lea...
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White Legge Entre
Five tenements and shops in parish of Blessed Mary of Bow called the "White Legge Entre," 4 Ed. VI. ...
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White Lyon Alley
See White Lion Court, Cornhill.
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White Lyon Tavern
On the west side of Aldersgate Street, in Aldersgate Ward Without (Rocque, 1746).
Site rebuilt for ...
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White Rampinge Lyon
See Three Crown Court2, Foster Lane.
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White Rose Place
East out of Whitecross Street, in Cripplegate Ward Without (Strype ,ed. 1720-O.S.1880).
Former name...
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White Street, Houndsditch
See Cutler Street.
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White Swan Inn
1) In Seething Lane, 1636 (L. and P. Chas. I. I635~6, p.380). No other mention.
2) West out of West...
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White Swan Stairs
South out of Thames Street on the Thames (Strype, ed. 1755-Boyle, 1799).
Not named in the maps.
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White Tawyers' Seld
Seld of Richer de Refham so called in parish of St. Mary de Colchirch, 1328 (Ct. H.W. I. 339).
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black and white
In writing. I have it in black and white; I have written evidence.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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white-lipped snake
n.
See under snake.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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black and white
To put a thing into black and white, is, to commit it to writing. In use in Scotland.--Jamieson.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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white for quite
QUITE, per aphaeresin, pro REQUITE.
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white boot-top
A painted white line carried fore and aft on the hammock-netting base. It gives a longer appearance ...
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Cullum Court, Cullums Court
West out of Rood Lane. In Langbourn Ward (O. and M. 1677-Strype, 1755).
The site is now occupied by...
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Gold Lion, Lombard Street
House of F. Barnham called the "Gould Lion" in Lumbart Street, mentioned in his Will, 1624. Behind t...
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The Red Lion, Watling Street
See Red Lion Court.
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Red Lion, East Smithfield
Brewhouse so called, which belonged to St. Mary Graces, near the brewhouse called " Le three Kyngs,"...
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Base-court
·noun An inferior court of law, not of record.
II. Base-court ·noun The secondary, inferior, or rea...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Court tennis
·- ·see under <<Tennis>>.
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Court-baron
·noun An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron...
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Court-craft
·noun The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.
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Court-cupboard
·noun A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on s...
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Court-leet
·noun A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the st...
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Court-martial
·vt To subject to trial by a court-martial.
II. Court-martial ·noun A court consisting of military ...
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