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English (mainly Oxfordshire and Berkshire)
English (mainly Oxfordshire and Berkshire) : variant of Howes.
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English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place.Thomas Howerton came from England in about 1663 to Rappahannock CO., VA.
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English
English surname transferred to forename use, from an Anglicized form (Haward) of Danish/Norwegian HÃ¥vard, HOWARD means "high guard."
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Cheshire, Gloucestershire, and West Yorkshire. The first is from a lost place in Lower Bebington, named from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + weg ‘way’; the second is from Old English hol + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’; and the last, Howley Hall in Moreley, is from Old English hÅfe ‘ground ivy’ + lÄ“ah.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUallaigh ‘descendant of Uallach’, a personal name or byname from uallach ‘proud’.
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English
English : apparently a variant spelling of Howarth.
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English
English : topographic name from the plural of Middle English how ‘barrow’ (see Howe 1)English : possibly a variant of House.English : patronymic from Hugh.
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Native American
Native American Miwok name HOWI means "turtle-dove."
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Hebrew
(×”ï‹×©×Öµ×¢Ö·) Hebrew name HOWSHEA means "salvation." In the bible, this is the name of several characters, including the author of the Book of Hosea.
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English (mainly Staffordshire)
English (mainly Staffordshire) : habitational name from Howle in Shropshire, named from Old English hugol ‘hillock’, ‘mound’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Howarth.
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English (mainly south Lancashire)
English (mainly south Lancashire) : habitational name from some place named as a smallholding (see Croft) on the spur of a hill (see Huff), e.g. Howcroft in Rimington, West Yorkshire.
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English (chiefly south Lancashire)
English (chiefly south Lancashire) : variant spelling of Haworth.English (chiefly south Lancashire) : habitational name from Howarth in the parish of Rochdale, Lancashire, apparently so called from Old English hÅh ‘mound’ + worð ‘enclosure’. However, if the 13th-century form Halwerdeword refers to this place, the first element may instead be Middle English halleward ‘keeper of a hall’ or represent a personal name such as Old English Æðelweard or Old Norse Hallvarðr.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a small hill or a man-made mound or barrow, Middle English how (Old Norse haugr), or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Howe in Norfolk and North Yorkshire.English : variant of Hugh.Jewish (American) : Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames.Americanized form of Norwegian Hove.
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English
Anglicized form of Welsh Hywel, HOWELL means "eminent, conspicuous."
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English
Pet form of English Howard, HOWIE means "high guard."
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English
Variant spelling of English Howell, HOWEL means "eminent, conspicuous."
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English
English : from the Norman personal name Huard, Heward, composed of the Germanic elements hug ‘heart’, ‘mind’, ‘spirit’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’.English : from the Anglo-Scandinavian personal name HÄward, composed of the Old Norse elements há ‘high’ + varðr ‘guardian’, ‘warden’.English : variant of Ewart 2.Irish : see Fogarty.Irish (County Clare) surname adopted as an equivalent of Gaelic Ó hÃomhair, which was formerly Anglicized as O’Hure.The house of Howard, the leading family of the English Roman Catholic nobility, was founded by Sir William Howard or Haward of Norfolk (d. 1308). The family acquired the dukedom of Norfolk by marriage. The first duke of Norfolk of the Howard line was created earl marshal of England by Richard III in 1483, and this office has been held by his succeeding male heirs to the present day. They also hold the earldoms of Suffolk, Berkshire, Carlisle, and Effingham. Henry VIII’s fifth queen, Catherine Howard (?1520–42), was a niece of Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk. American Howards include the father and son John Eager Howard and Benjamin Chew Howard of Baltimore, MD, both MD politicians.
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Welsh
Welsh : from the personal name Hywel ‘eminent’, popular since the Middle Ages in particular in honor of the great 10th-century law-giving Welsh king.English : habitational name from Howell in Lincolnshire, so named from an Old English hugol ‘mound’, ‘hillock’ or hūne ‘hoarhound’.
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English
English : variant of Holland 1.Americanized form of Norwegian Hovland.Howland was the name of three Quaker brothers, original settlers in Marshfield, MA. They were from Huntingdonshire, England. The eldest, John Howland (c.1593–1672) was a passenger on the Mayflower, servant to Gov. John Carver, who died in the first winter at Plymouth Colony.
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Native American
Native American Sioux name HOWAHKAN means "of the mysterious voice."
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Bengali, Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Malayalam, Marathi, Sanskrit, Telugu
Handsome
Female
Greek
(Ῥαάβ) Greek form of Hebrew Rachab, RHAAB means "ample, broad, spacious, wide." In the bible, this is the name of a harlot of Jericho who aided the spies in their escape and was saved from destruction.
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Muslim
One kind of bird
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American, Australian, Danish, German, Teutonic
Rules an Estate
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Arabic, Muslim
Merciful
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Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Charming; Beautiful; Beauty Never seen
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Biblical
Horns.
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Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Nourishing
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Irish
Variant spelling of Irish Gaelic Cathal, CATHELD means "mighty in battle."
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Greek
(ἈÏταξÎÏξης) Greek form of Persian Artachshatra (Hebrew Artachshashta), ARTAXERXES means "great warrior" or "lion-king." In the bible, this is the name of the son and successor of Xerxes as emperor of Persia.
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n.
Any South American monkey of the genus Mycetes. Many species are known. They are arboreal in their habits, and are noted for the loud, discordant howling in which they indulge at night.
conj.
Be it as it may; nevertheless; notwithstanding; although; albeit; yet; but; however.
v. i.
To howl, as a dog or a wolf; to wail; as, ululating jackals.
n.
A howitzer.
imp. & p. p.
of Howl
n.
Same as Tsetse. U () the twenty-first letter of the English alphabet, is a cursive form of the letter V, with which it was formerly used interchangeably, both letters being then used both as vowels and consonants. U and V are now, however, differentiated, U being used only as a vowel or semivowel, and V only as a consonant. The true primary vowel sound of U, in Anglo-Saxon, was the sound which it still retains in most of the languages of Europe, that of long oo, as in tool, and short oo, as in wood, answering to the French ou in tour. Etymologically U is most closely related to o, y (vowel), w, and v; as in two, duet, dyad, twice; top, tuft; sop, sup; auspice, aviary. See V, also O and Y.
v. t.
To smooth; to plane; as, to howel a cask.
a.
Howling; wailing.
n.
A howitzer.
conj.
Nevertheless; notwithstanding; yet; still; though; as, I shall not oppose your design; I can not, however, approve of it.
adv.
At what price; how dear.
n.
The act of a naval commander who visits, or enters on board, a vessel belonging to another nation, for the purpose of ascertaining her character and object, but without claiming or exercising a right of searching the vessel. It is, however, usually coupled with the right of search (see under Search), visitation being used for the purpose of search.
adv.
Howsoever.
adj. & conj.
Although; though; however.
n.
A howling, as of a dog or wolf; a wailing.
n.
One who howls.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Howl
adj. & conj.
In what manner soever; to whatever degree or extent; however.
n.
One of a sect of rigid Anabaptists, which originated in 1637, and whose tenets were essentially the same as those of the Mennonists. In addition, however, they held that Judas and the murderers of Christ were saved. So called from the founder of the sect, Ucke Wallis, a native of Friesland.