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Boy/Male
British, English, Jamaican
Town High on a Hill; Upper Town
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places so called. Most are named from Old English uferra ‘upper’ + tÅ«n ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’; others have Old English Åfer ‘riverbank’ or ofer ‘slope’ as the first element.
Surname or Lastname
English (chiefly West Country)
English (chiefly West Country) : nickname from Middle English chubbe ‘chub’, a common freshwater fish, Leuciscus cephalus. The fish is notable for its short, fat shape and sluggish habits. The word is well attested in Middle English as a description of an indolent, stupid, or physically awkward person, and this is probably the origin of modern English chubby, although the term has lost any pejorative overtones.
Girl/Female
Irish
Irish word saoirse “freedom, liberty.†It has only been used since the 1920s and has strong patriotic overtones. It has become a very popular baby girl name in Ireland in recent years.
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Girl/Female
Tamil
Goddess Parvati
Boy/Male
Irish English Sanskrit
Poet.
Boy/Male
Latin
Paladin.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Lord Krishna
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
A Chaplet of Flowers Worn in Hair
Boy/Male
American, British, English
Wood Cutter; Saws Wood
Girl/Female
Hindu
Night, Flower
Girl/Female
Muslim
Daughter of the prophet Mohammed, Name of a companion
Boy/Male
Indian, Sanskrit
Lustrous as the Moon
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Mythological, Rajasthani, Sanskrit, Telugu
Lord Vishnu
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n.
One of the harmonics faintly heard with and above a tone as it dies away, produced by some aliquot portion of the vibrating sting or column of air which yields the fundamental tone; one of the natural harmonic scale of tones, as the octave, twelfth, fifteenth, etc.; an aliquot or "partial" tone; a harmonic. See Harmonic, and Tone.
n.
Secondary and less distinct tones which accompany any principal, and apparently simple, tone, as the octave, the twelfth, the fifteenth, and the seventeenth. The name is also applied to the artificial tones produced by a string or column of air, when the impulse given to it suffices only to make a part of the string or column vibrate; overtones.
n.
A musical note produced by a number of vibrations which is a multiple of the number producing some other; an overtone. See Harmonics.
a.
Relating to harmony, -- as melodic relates to melody; harmonious; esp., relating to the accessory sounds or overtones which accompany the predominant and apparent single tone of any string or sonorous body.
v. i.
To force so much wind into a pipe that it produces an overtone, or a note higher than the natural note; thus, the upper octaves of a flute are produced by overblowing.
n.
An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
n.
The fundamental tone of any chord; the tone from whose harmonics, or overtones, a chord is composed.