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English : habitational name from the villages of East and West Ilsley on the Berkshire Downs, named from Old English Hild (a short form of various personal names containing the first element hild ‘strife’, ‘battle’) + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
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English : patronymic from a variant of Dunn 2.English : variant (plural) of Down.
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English : habitational name from the city of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, and probably also from a place of the same name in Northamptonshire. Both are named from an Old English wacu ‘vigil’, ‘festival’ (a derivative of wac(i)an ‘to watch or wake’) + feld ‘pasture’, ‘open country’, i.e. a patch of open land where a fair was held.
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Gaelic American Celtic Irish French Latin
Servant.
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English : from the Old Norse byname Krókr meaning ‘crook’, ‘bend’, originally possibly bestowed on a cripple or hunchback or a devious schemer, but in early medieval England used as a personal name.English : from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’, ‘bend’, borrowed into Middle English as a vocabulary word and applied as a metonymic occupational name for a maker, seller, or user of hooks or a topographic name for someone who lived by a bend in a river or road. In some instances the surname may have arisen as a habitational name from places in Cumbria and Durham named Crook from this word.
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Indian
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English : patronymic from the personal name Jan (see Jayne).Czech (JaneÅ¡) : from a pet form of the personal name Jan, a vernacular form of Greek IÅannÄ“s (see John).
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Afghan, Arabic, Indian, Kannada, Muslim
Noble; Distinguished
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Muslim
Benefactor. Benevolent. Charitable.
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American, British, English
Hazelnut; Variant of Medieval Given Names Avis and Aveline
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Hindu
Of the form of the entire universe
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Egyptian
, Gold of the Hall Assembly.
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n.
The act of sitting down; repose; a resting.
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Of or pertaining to the South Downs, a range of pasture hills south of the Thames, in England.
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Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style.
adv.
Down the stream; as, floating downstream.
n.
A stroke made with a downward motion of the pen or pencil.
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One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.
adv.
Down the stairs; to a lower floor.
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Below stairs; as, a downstairs room.
n.
A breastplow used in paring off turf on downs.
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The state of being up or above; a state of elevation, prosperity, or the like; -- rarely occurring except in the phrase ups and downs.
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Very steep.