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Species of moth
Biston contectaria is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in China (Yunnan), India and Nepal. A review of Biston Leach, 1815 (Lepidoptera, Geometridae
Biston_contectaria
Genus of moths
(Warren, 1894) Biston contectaria (Walker, 1863) Biston exalbescens Inoue, 2000 Biston falcata (Warren, 1893) Biston giganteus Inoue Biston hypoleucus Kuznetsov
Biston_(moth)
BISTON CONTECTARIA
BISTON CONTECTARIA
Surname or Lastname
English and Scottish
English and Scottish : variant of Beaton or Beeton.
Boy/Male
English
From the brushwood farm.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, English
A Place Name
Boy/Male
English American
Bishop; overseer.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from the place in Lincolnshire, the name of which means ‘BÅtwulf’s stone’. This has been considered to refer to St. Botulf, and to be the site of the monastery that he built in the 7th century, but it is more likely that the BÅtwulf of the place name was an ordinary landowner, and that the association with the saint was a later development because of the name.Probably an altered spelling of German Basten and perhaps Bastian.
Boy/Male
American, British, Chinese, English
Overseer; A Bishop
Surname or Lastname
Jewish
Jewish : unexplained.English : habitational name from a place in Gloucestershire named Bitton. The place takes its name from the Boyd river, a Celtic river name of uncertain origin + Old English tūn ‘settlement’, ‘farmstead’.
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Ash Tree Farm
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Bristow, respelled to conform to the spelling of the modern place name.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from places in Northumberland and Yorkshire named Bilton, from an Old English personal name Billa + Old English tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’. There is also a Bilton in Warwickshire, of which the first element is probably Old English beolone ‘henbane’, but this place does not seem to have yielded any surviving surnames.
Surname or Lastname
English (Bristol)
English (Bristol) : variant spelling of Pullen.
Boy/Male
English
From Brinton.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from a place in Essex, so named from the Old English personal name Lissa (probably a pet form of Lēofsige; see Livesay 2) + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.Scottish : habitational name from places in West Lothian and Midlothian, which probably have the same origin as in 1. This surname is also found in Ireland.
Surname or Lastname
English (eastern England)
English (eastern England) : variant of Beaton.
Male
English
English surname transferred to forename use, BRITTON means "from Britain."
Surname or Lastname
English (Bristol)
English (Bristol) : variant of Parrott 1.
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Indian, Modern
From the Brushwood Farm; From the Settlement Near the Shrubs; First; Brave
Male
Greek
(ἈÏίστων) Greek name derived from the word aristos, ARISTON means "best, most excellent."
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Burton.
Surname or Lastname
French and English
French and English : from Old French bastun ‘stick’, hence a nickname for a person of authority, an officious person, or perhaps for a beadle or verger.English : habitational name from Baston in Lincolnshire, named with the Old Norse personal name Bak + Old English tūn ‘farmstead’.
BISTON CONTECTARIA
BISTON CONTECTARIA
Boy/Male
English American
Huntsman.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Muslim, Sindhi
Shining
Boy/Male
Hindu
Suganth means a good smell
Boy/Male
Tamil
Constant
Boy/Male
Hindu
Master of medicines, The king of medicine
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Rosson.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads named Rosten or Røsten, from rust ‘grove’, ‘ridge’.Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish surnames. Compare Rothstein.
Boy/Male
Indian
Kind, Gracious, Extremely generous
Male
Spanish
Portuguese and Spanish form of Latin Marcus, MARCOS means "defense" or "of the sea."
Boy/Male
Scandinavian Welsh American
Gift of God.
Boy/Male
Hindu
Well defined body
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n.
See Baton.
v. i.
To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
n.
See Batten, and Baton.
a.
Terminating abruptly, as if bitten off; premorse.
n.
The aurochs or European bison.
a.
Bitten by a flea; as, a flea-bitten face.
n.
A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.
n.
See Bister.
n.
The American bison buffalo (Bison Americanus), a large, gregarious bovine quadruped with shaggy mane and short black horns, which formerly roamed in herds over most of the temperate portion of North America, but is now restricted to very limited districts in the region of the Rocky Mountains, and is rapidly decreasing in numbers.
n.
Alt. of Bistre
n.
A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
v. t.
To see in a vision; to dream.
n.
A work projecting outward from the main inclosure of a fortification, consisting of two faces and two flanks, and so constructed that it is able to defend by a flanking fire the adjacent curtain, or wall which extends from one bastion to another. Two adjacent bastions are connected by the curtain, which joins the flank of one with the adjacent flank of the other. The distance between the flanks of a bastion is called the gorge. A lunette is a detached bastion. See Ravelin.
n.
A sweet, light-colored species of wine, produced in the province of Estremadura, and so called as being shipped from Lisbon, in Portugal.
n.
In the Roman Catholic, Greek, and Anglican or Protestant Episcopal churches, one ordained to the highest order of the ministry, superior to the priesthood, and generally claiming to be a successor of the Apostles. The bishop is usually the spiritual head or ruler of a diocese, bishopric, or see.
n.
To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
n.
See Baton, and Baston.
v. t.
To make seem younger, by operating on the teeth; as, to bishop an old horse or his teeth.
v. t.
To shoot with a pistol.
pl.
of Cornet-a-piston