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English
English : nickname for a person of a cheerful disposition, from Middle English, Old French joie, joye. In some cases it may derive from a personal name (normally borne by women) of this origin, which was in sporadic use during the Middle Ages.Thomas Joy (c. 1610–78), an architect and builder born probably in Hingham, Norfolk, England, appears in land records in Boston, MA, in 1636. He had a considerable influence on Boston architecture.
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English : variant spelling of Carnell.French : metonymic occupational name for a maker of latches and hinges, from Old Picard carnel, Old French charnel ‘hinge’.
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English : patronymic from the personal name Andrew. This is the usual southern English patronymic form, also found in Wales; the Scottish and northern English form is Anderson. In North America this name has absorbed numerous cases of the various European cognates and their derivatives. (For forms, see Hanks and Hodges 1988.)This was a common name among the early settlers in New England. Robert Andrews emigrated in 1635 from Norwich, England, to Ipswich, MA. Even before 1635, one Thomas Andrews is recorded as being established in Hingham. A certain William Andrews was a member of John Davenport’s company, which sailed from Boston in 1638 to found the New Haven colony.
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English (Devon) : probably a variant of Hingston. The name in this spelling has died out in England.
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English : variant of Oates.John Otis emigrated from England in 1631 to Hingham, MA; he had many prominent descendants. His great grandson, James Otis (1725–83), was a Boston lawyer who played a major role in the development of opposition to the British crown and the establishment of the Fourth Amendment. Another descendant was Elisha Graves Otis (1811–61), inventor of the elevator, who was born on his father’s farm at Halifax, Windham Co., VT.
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English : habitational name from any of various places in different parts of England, named in Old English with ripel ‘strip of land’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’.William Ripley (d. 1656) came from Wymondham, Norfolk, England, to Hingham, MA, in 1638.
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Australian, British, English, Jamaican
Jewel Name; Red Jewel; Garnet; One who Makes Hinges; Garnet (the Gem); Precious Stone; Red Like a Pomegranate
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English : variant of Whitton.James Whiton of Hingham, Norfolk, England, came to Plymouth, MA, in 1635.
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English : from Old French Guarinot, Warinot, a pet form of the personal name Guarin, Warin, from Germanic wari(n)- ‘protection’, ‘shelter’.English : possibly a metonymic occupational name for a maker or fitter of garnets, a type of hinge, Middle English garnette, or for a jeweler, from Middle English garnette, gernet ‘garnet’.English : from a diminutive of Garner 1.
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Latin
Protectress of hinges.
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English (Devon)
English (Devon) : habitational name from any of three places so named. Hingston, Cornwall and Hingston Down in Moretonhampstead, Devon are both named from the Old English byname Hengest (or from Old English hengest ‘stallion’) + Old English dÅ«n ‘hill’, while Hingston in Bigbury, Devon is named from Old English hind ‘hind’ + stÄn ‘stone’.
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English : from northern Middle English Spragge, either a personal name or a byname meaning ‘lively’, a metathesized and voiced form of Spark 1.William Sprague came from England to Salem, MA, in 1628 with his brothers Ralph and Richard. He was one of the founders of Charlestown, MA, and later of Hingham, MA. His descendants include Peleg Sprague, a jurist and MA legislator, who was born in 1793 in Duxbury, MA; William Sprague a textile manufacturer born in 1773 in Cranston, RI; and Yale College educator Homer Baxter Sprague, who was born in 1829 in South Sutton, MA, and whose legacy lives on in Yale’s Sprague concert hall.
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English : unexplained.East Asian : unexplained.
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English : variant of Ingle.
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English : (of Norman origin) nickname from Anglo-Norman French leuet ‘wolf cub’ (see Low 3).English : habitational name from any of the various places in Normandy called Livet. All are of obscure, presumably Gaulish, etymology.English : from the Middle English personal name Lefget, Old English Lēofgēat, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + the tribal name Gēat (see Jocelyn).English : possibly from an unrecorded Middle English survival of the Old English female personal name Lēofḡð, composed of the elements lēof ‘dear’, ‘beloved’ + ḡð ‘battle’.English : Early American Leavitts include John Leavitt, who was born 1608 in England and married in Hingham, MA, in 1637. His descendants spread to NH.
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A shade, screen, or guard, carried in the hand for sheltering the person from the rays of the sun, or from rain or snow. It is formed of silk, cotton, or other fabric, extended on strips of whalebone, steel, or other elastic material, inserted, or fastened to, a rod or stick by means of pivots or hinges, in such a way as to allow of being opened and closed with ease. See Parasol.
v. i.
To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, though tightly drawn; the floor of a room sags; hence, to lean, give way, or settle from a vertical position; as, a building may sag one way or another; a door sags on its hinges.
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An instrument with a hinged claw, -- used for extracting teeth with a twist.
n. pl.
A division of brachiopods including those which have a calcareous shell furnished with a hinge and hinge teeth. Terebratula and Spirifer are examples.
v. i.
To stand, depend, hang, or turn, as on a hinge; to depend chiefly for a result or decision or for force and validity; -- usually with on or upon; as, the argument hinges on this point.
v. t.
To take from the hinges; as, to unhinge a door.
n.
Any one of various species of marine bivalve shells belonging to the genus Avicula, in which the hinge border projects like a wing.
v. t.
To attach by, or furnish with, hinges.
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Without a hinge or joint.
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The main part or blade of the rudder, which is connected by hinges, or the like, with the sternpost of a vessel.
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An axis; hinge; a turning point.
v. i.
Hence, to revolve as if upon a point of support; to hinge; to depend; as, the decision turns on a single fact.
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That on which anything turns or depends; a governing principle; a cardinal point or rule; as, this argument was the hinge on which the question turned.
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One of the lateral prominence just above the hinge of a bivalve shell.
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Furnished with hinges.
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The hinged and curved bar of a padlock, by which it is hung to the staple.
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That part of a hinge which is fixed to a post, and on which a door or gate hangs and turns.
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of Hinge
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The most elevated part of a bivalve shell, or the part in which the hinge is situated.
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of Hinge