What is the name meaning of NETTLES. Phrases containing NETTLES
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English (Cornwall) : probably a topographic name for someone who lived at a place overgrown with nettles, Middle English net(t)el.Respelling of North German Nettel, a nickname for an obnoxious person, from Middle Low German nettel ‘nettle’.
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English : variant of Nettle.
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n. pl.
The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
v. t.
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
v. t. & i.
To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
n. pl.
A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.
a.
Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.
n. pl.
Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
n.
A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
n.
A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.
n.
One who nettles.
v. t.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
n.
The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
v. i.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
n. pl.
Reef points.
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A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.
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See Nettles.