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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 None a. & pron.
 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.