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Saxifraga umbrosa

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}.
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