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English (now mainly in Scotland; also West Midlands and Welsh border)
English (now mainly in Scotland; also West Midlands and Welsh border) : habitational name from places in Shropshire and West Yorkshire, so named from Old English hær ‘rock’, ‘heap of stones’ or hara ‘hare’ + lēah ‘wood’, ‘clearing’. In some cases the name may be topographic.Irish : when not of English origin, this is an Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEarghaile ‘descendant of Earghal’, a variant of the personal name Fearghal without the initial F- (see Farrell).
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English (now chiefly Leicestershire)
English (now chiefly Leicestershire) : habitational name from either of two places called Kinson, one in Shropshire and the other in Dorset, which is named from the Old English personal name CynestÄn + Old English tÅ«n.
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English
English : habitational name from places so named in Staffordshire and Sussex. The former was named in Old English as ‘open country (feld) where madder (mæddre) grows’, while the latter was named as ‘open country where mayweed (mægðe) grows’. The surname is now most common in Nottinghamshire.
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English (now rare)
English (now rare) : occupational name for a furrier, Middle English pel(e)ter.
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English and Scottish (now mainly found in Ireland)
English and Scottish (now mainly found in Ireland) : variant spelling of Short.
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English (now found mainly in northern Ireland)
English (now found mainly in northern Ireland) : habitational name from any of the various places so called, in Northamptonshire, Devon, Lincolnshire, and elsewhere. The one in Northamptonshire is Old English Ludingtūn ‘settlement (tūn) associated with Luda’ (a personal name of uncertain origin); that in Cornwood, Devon, is Old English Ludantūn ‘Luda’s settlement’; that in Lincolnshire is ‘pool settlement’, from Old English luh ‘pool’, and Lutton in North Yorkshire is ‘settlement on the river Hlūde’ (see Loud) or ‘Luda’s settlement’.
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English (now found mainly in northern Ireland)
English (now found mainly in northern Ireland) : topographic name from Middle English lidyate ‘gate in a fence between plowed land and meadow’ (Old English hlid-geat ‘swing-gate’), or a habitational name from one of the places named with this word, as for example Lidgate in Suffolk or Lydiate in Lancashire.
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English (now chiefly Yorkshire)
English (now chiefly Yorkshire) : nickname from Middle English speght ‘woodpecker’, probably from an unrecorded Old English word akin to specan ‘to speak, talk, chatter’. Compare Speak.
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English (now chiefly Lancashire)
English (now chiefly Lancashire) : from an unattested Old English personal name, Wilding, a derivative of Old English wilde ‘wild’, ‘savage’. It is also possible that it may be from a topographical term derived from the same vocabulary word. Compare Wild, but early forms with prepositions are not found.German : patronymic from Wilto, a short form of a Germanic personal name beginning with wild ‘wild’.
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English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish
English (now mainly East Midlands) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived on land belonging to the Church, from northern Middle English kirk ‘church’ + land ‘land’. There are several villages named with these elements, for example in Cumbria, and in some cases the surname will have arisen from these. Exceptionally, Kirkland in Lancashire has as its second element Old Norse lundr ‘grove’.
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English (now found chiefly in Ireland)
English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : occupational name from Anglo-Norman French cordewaner ‘cordwainer’, ‘shoemaker’.English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : from an agent derivative of Old French cordon ‘ribbon’, hence an occupational name for a maker or seller of cord or ribbon.English (now found chiefly in Ireland) : occupational name for a worker in fine Spanish kid leather, from an agent derivative of Old French cordoan (see Cordon 2).
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English
Variant spelling of English Noel, NOWELL means "day of birth."
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English
English : habitational name from Malden in Surrey (now in Greater London) or Maldon in Essex. Both places were named in Old English as ‘hill with a cross or monument’, from mǣl ‘monument’, ‘cross’ (crucifix) + dūn ‘hill’.
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English (now mainly northern Ireland)
English (now mainly northern Ireland) : apparently a habitational name from an unidentified place.perhaps also an altered spelling of Swedish Rosberg or German Rossburg (see Rosburg).
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English (now chiefly East Anglia)
English (now chiefly East Anglia) : probably a topographic name for someone who lived by a patch of rough ground, from a hypothetical Old English word rÅ«(we)t or rÅ«het, derivatives of rÅ«h ‘rough’, ‘overgrown’. Compare Rauch. There are places called Ruffet(t) in Surrey and Sussex which are thought to have this origin.German : Swabian variant of Roth 1.Probably an Americanized spelling of German Rauth.Indian (northern states) : Hindu (Rajput, Jat, Maratha) and Sikh name meaning ‘prince’, from Sanskrit rÄjaputra (from rÄja ‘king’ + putra ‘son’). In India this is a variant of a name more commonly spelled Ravat or Raut. The Jats have a clan called Ravat.
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English (now most common in northern Ireland)
English (now most common in northern Ireland) : probably a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place, most likely somewhere in Lancashire or Yorkshire.
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English and Scottish
English and Scottish : habitational name from any of the places so called. In over thirty instances from many different areas, the name is from Old English midel ‘middle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. However, Middleton on the Hill near Leominster in Herefordshire appears in Domesday Book as Miceltune, the first element clearly being Old English micel ‘large’, ‘great’. Middleton Baggot and Middleton Priors in Shropshire have early spellings that suggest gem̄ðhyll (from gem̄ð ‘confluence’ + hyll ‘hill’) + tūn as the origin.A Scottish family of this name derives it from lands at Middleto(u)n near Kincardine. The Scottish physician Peter Middleton practiced in New York City after 1752 and was one of the founders of the medical school at King's College (now Columbia University) in 1767. One of the earliest of the Charleston, SC, Middleton family of prominent legislators was Arthur Middleton, born in Charleston in 1681.
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English (now chiefly northern Ireland)
English (now chiefly northern Ireland) : topographic name for someone who lived by a hazel copse, Old English hæslett (a derivative of hæsel ‘hazel’).English (now chiefly northern Ireland) : habitational name from Hazelhead or Hazlehead in Lancashire and West Yorkshire, derived from Old English hæsel ‘hazel’ + hēafod ‘head’, here in the sense of ‘hill’; also a topographic name of similar etymological origin.
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English (now chiefly Yorkshire)
English (now chiefly Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of spurs, from Middle English spore, spure ‘spur’.
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English (now mainly Bedfordshire)
English (now mainly Bedfordshire) : habitational name from Tarbock Green, formerly in Lancashire, now in Merseyside, named in Old English with þorn ‘thorn tree’ + brÅc ‘brook’, ‘stream’.
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Australian, Danish, German, Hebrew, Irish, Jewish, Polish, Swedish
God has Given; Prophet; Gift from God
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Tamil
The earth, Alive
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Hindu
Mudrapradayaka deliverer of the ring of Sita
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Spanish
Spanish form of English Charity, CARIDAD means "dear."Â
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Tamil
Jayalaxmi | ஜயலகà¯à®·à¯à®®à¯€
Goddess of victory, Star
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Hindu, Indian
The Divine Gita
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American, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin
Sea of Bitterness; Abbreviation of Mary; Margaret and Miriam; Pearl; Bitter; Rebellious; Star of the Sea; Beloved
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Australian, Swahili
Soft and Gentle
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Gujarati, Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu
Action
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Hindu, Indian, Traditional
Imagined
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adv.
Just now; at present.
n.
Command; precept; -- now chiefly used in scriptural language.
n.
A genus of minute, pale-green, globular, organisms, about one fiftieth of an inch in diameter, found rolling through water, the motion being produced by minute colorless cilia. It has been considered as belonging to the flagellate Infusoria, but is now referred to the vegetable kingdom, and each globule is considered a colony of many individuals. The commonest species is Volvox globator, often called globe animalcule.
adv.
Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere.
n.
Food; -- now used chiefly in the plural. See Victuals.
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An instrument somewhat resembling the spinet, but having a rectangular form, like the small piano. It had strings and keys, but only one wire to a note. The instrument was used in the sixteenth century, but is now wholly obsolete. It was sometimes called a pair of virginals.
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A Spanish measure of length equal to about one yard. The vara now in use equals 33.385 inches.
adv.
At the present time; at this moment; at the time of speaking; instantly; as, I will write now.
n.
A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
adv.
Not anywhere; not in any place or state; as, the book is nowhere to be found.
a.
Belonging to the country of one's birth; one's own by birth or nature; native; indigenous; -- now used chiefly of language; as, English is our vernacular language.
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A cross, ill-tempered person; -- formerly used of either sex, now only of a woman.
n.
In a pack of playing cards, the court card now called the knave, or jack.
adv.
Alt. of Noways
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A light road carriage propelled by the feet of the rider. Originally it was propelled by striking the tips of the toes on the roadway, but commonly now by the action of the feet on a pedal or pedals connected with the axle of one or more of the wheels, and causing their revolution. They are made in many forms, with two, three, or four wheels. See Bicycle, and Tricycle.
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Formerly, the flesh of any of the edible beasts of the chase, also of game birds; now, the flesh of animals of the deer kind exclusively.
adv.
In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise.
n.
A blood-sucking ghost; a soul of a dead person superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, thus causing their death. This superstition is now prevalent in parts of Eastern Europe, and was especially current in Hungary about the year 1730.
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Not in any manner or degree; in no way; noways.
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The way or fashion of people at any particular time; temporary mode, custom, or practice; popular reception for the time; -- used now generally in the phrase in vogue.