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English
English : habitational name from Ledwell in Oxfordshire, named in Old English as ‘loud spring’ or ‘loud stream’, from Hl̄de (a river-name derived from hlūd ‘loud’, i.e. ‘roaring stream’, ‘torrent’) + wella ‘well’, ‘spring’, or ‘stream’.
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Gaelic Irish American Scottish
From the knolls.
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English (southern)
English (southern) : topographic name for someone living on the banks of the Tarrant river in Dorset, of which the name is of the same origin as Trent.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Toráin (see Torrens).
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Scottish
from the craggy hills.
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Irish
From the knolls.
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Scottish Irish
From the craggy hills.' Tor is a name for a craggy hilltop and also may refer to a watchtower.
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English
English : probably a variant of Terry 1.A Josiah Torrey was in Boston before 1680. John Torrey (1796–1873) was a botanist and teacher born in NY who catalogued many North American plants.
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English
English : variant of Terry.Scottish : probably a habitational name from Torry near Aberdeen.
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Scottish
from the craggy hills.
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English
English : habitational name for someone from Dunster in Somerset, recorded in 1138 as Dunestore ‘craggy pinnacle (Old English torr) of a man named Dun(n)’.Henry Dunster emigrated to MA in 1640 from Bury, Lancashire, England, and was made the first president of Harvard College (1640–54) almost immediately upon arrival in MA.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a tor or rocky hilltop (Old English torr, of Celtic origin), or a habitational name from any of the places named with this word, for example Torre or Torr in Devon, where the surname is frequent.English : nickname for someone thought to resemble a bull, Anglo-Norman French tor (Latin taurus).English : perhaps a habitational name from a minor place in Fife.
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Norse
Son of Osvif.
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Italian
Tower.
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Latin
Swift.
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English
English : variant spelling of Joslin.The Josselyn name appears in Black Point (now Scarborough, ME) before 1638, when the author John Josselyn came to visit his brother Henry, who was for many years a principal representative in eastern New England of the interests of the Mason and Gorges heirs, which were endangered by the Massachusetts Bay colony’s expansion into Maine. Their father was Sir Thomas Josselyn, of Torrell’s Hall in Willingale, Essex, England.
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Scottish Irish
From the craggy hills.' Tor is a name for a craggy hilltop and also may refer to a watchtower.
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English Irish Scottish American Celtic
from the craggy hills.
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Scottish American Irish
from the craggy hills. Tor is a name for a craggy hilltop and also may refer to a watchtower.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the places so called, as for example Litton Cheney in Dorset (named from Old English hl̄de ‘torrent’ (from hlūd ‘loud’, ‘roaring’) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’), or Litton in Somerset (from Old English hlid ‘slope’ or ‘gate’ + tūn), Derbyshire and North Yorkshire (both probably from Old English hlīð ‘slope’ + tūn).
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English
English : probably a variant of Guest.South German (Güss) : topographic name for someone who lived near a torrent or on a flood plain, from Middle High German güsse ‘flood’, ‘flooding’.German : variant of Geis.
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English
Biblical
same as Noah
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British, English
Good
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Indian
Forbearing
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Indian
Gem
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Arabic
Source of Light
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Scandinavian
Modern Scandinavian form of Old Norse ÞorrÃðr, TURID means "Thor's beauty."
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Hindu, Indian, Sanskrit
Divine; The Heaven
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Muslim/Islamic
Daughter of al-Mahdi
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English and Irish
English and Irish : variant spelling of Tyrrell.
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n.
A violent whirling wind; specifically (Meteorol.), a tempest distinguished by a rapid whirling and slow progressive motion, usually accompaned with severe thunder, lightning, and torrents of rain, and commonly of short duration and small breadth; a small cyclone.
a.
Of or pertaining to a torrent; having the character of a torrent; caused by a torrent .
v. t.
To dry by a fire.
n.
A worthless woman; also, a worthless horse.
v. t.
To subject to scorching heat, so as to drive off volatile ingredients; to roast, as ores.
n.
The act or process of torrefying, or the state of being torrefied.
n.
A gull.
n.
The quality or state of being torrid or parched.
a.
Acting with great force; furious; violent; impetuous; forcible; mighty; as, vehement wind; a vehement torrent; a vehement fire or heat.
imp. & p. p.
of Torrefy
n.
Torridness.
a.
Parched; dried with heat; as, a torrid plain or desert.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Torrefy
n.
Rolling or rushing in a rapid stream.
a.
Violenty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching.
a.
Of or pertaining to Torricelli, an Italian philosopher and mathematician, who, in 1643, discovered that the rise of a liquid in a tube, as in the barometer, is due to atmospheric pressure. See Barometer.
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Alt. of Torrentine
n.
A violent stream, as of water, lava, or the like; a stream suddenly raised and running rapidly, as down a precipice.
n.
Fig.: A violent or rapid flow; a strong current; a flood; as, a torrent of vices; a torrent of eloquence.
v. t.
To dry or parch, as drugs, on a metallic plate till they are friable, or are reduced to the state desired.