Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
London \Lon"don\, n.
The capital city of England.
{London paste} (Med.), a paste made of caustic soda and
unslacked lime; -- used as a caustic to destroy tumors and
other morbid enlargements.
{London pride}. (Bot.)
(a) A garden name for {Saxifraga umbrosa}, a hardy perennial
herbaceous plant, a native of high lands in Great
Britain.
(b) A name anciently given to the Sweet William. --Dr. Prior.
{London rocket} (Bot.), a cruciferous plant ({Sisymbrium
Irio}) which sprung up in London abundantly on the ruins
of the great fire of 1667.
None \None\, a. & pron. [OE. none, non, nan, no, na, AS. n[=a]n,
fr. ne not + [=a]n one. ?. See {No}, a. & adv., {One}, and
cf. {Non-}, {Null}, a.]
1. No one; not one; not anything; -- frequently used also
partitively, or as a plural, not any.
There is none that doeth good; no, not one. --Ps.
xiv. 3.
Six days ye shall gather it, but on the seventh day,
which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.
--Ex. xvi. 26.
Terms of peace yet none Vouchsafed or sought.
--Milton.
None of their productions are extant. --Blair.
2. No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old
style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life.
{None of}, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically.
``They knew that I was none of the register that entered
their admissions in the universities.'' --Fuller.
{None-so-pretty} (Bot.), the {Saxifraga umbrosa}. See {London
pride}
(a), under {London}.