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GREAVES
Surname or Lastname
North German and Scandinavian
North German and Scandinavian : status name from Middle Low German and Danish greve, equivalent to German Graf.English : variant of Greaves.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name from Old English grǣfe ‘brushwood’, ‘thicket’, or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example in Cumbria, Lancashire, and Staffordshire.
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Boy/Male
Indian, Tamil
Kingdom of Lord Shiva
Girl/Female
American, British, English, Greek
Pure; Keeper of the Keys
Boy/Male
English
From the valley.
Girl/Female
Hindu, Indian
The Sky
Male
English
Modern English name derived from the vocabulary word, nimbus, originally NIMBUS means "bright cloud surrounding a god," from Latin nimbus "cloud." It may also be related to nebula "cloud, mist."Â
Girl/Female
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi
Stone in Lord Vishnu's Necklace
Male
English
 Anglicized form of Hebrew El'adah, ELADA means "whom God puts on." In the bible, this is the name of a descendant of Ephraim. Compare with another form of Elada.
Girl/Female
English
Playful.
Girl/Female
American, Australian, Latin, Portuguese
Nobleman; Dedicated to Mars
Boy/Male
Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu
Lord Shiva
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v. t.
To clean, as a vessel's bottom, of barnacles, grass, etc., and pay it over with pitch; -- so called because graves or greaves was formerly used for this purpose.
n. pl.
The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
n. pl.
Greaves; armor for the legs.
n. pl.
The sediment of melted tallow. It is made into cakes for dogs' food. In Scotland it is called cracklings.