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English : occupational name from Old French telier ‘weaver’, ‘linen-weaver’.German : variant of Tell 2 and 3.Dutch : occupational name for a teller, a marketplace official.Jewish (Ashkenazic) : either a metonymic occupational name for a dish maker or a nickname, from German Teller, Yiddish teler ‘plate’.Catalan : from a derivative of Tell 4.This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
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English : variant of Beveridge.
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English
English : occupational name for a keeper of a lodging house, Middle English innmann, from Old English inn ‘abode’, ‘lodging’ + mann ‘man’. Until recently there was in England a technical distinction between an inn, where lodgings were available as well as alcoholic beverages, and a tavern, which offered only the latter.
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English : unexplained.South German : topographic name for someone who lived at the upper end of a village on a hill, from Middle High German ober, obar ‘above’. In other cases, it may have denoted someone who lived on an upper floor of a building with two or more floors.North German : topographic for someone who lived on the bank of a river or stream name, standardized from Middle Low German over ‘river bank’.Possibly a shortened form of any of various German compound names formed with Ober- (see entries below).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : from German Ober ‘senior’, ‘chief’. In some cases it can denote a rabbi; in others it is ornamental.A 17th-century American bearer of this name, Richard Ober (1641–1715/16), emigrated from Abbotsbury, Dorset, England, to the Salem colony and settled in Mackerel Cove, MA, later Beverly. His descendant Frederick Albion Ober, who was born in Beverly, MA, in 1849, was an ornithologist who discovered 22 new species of birds in the Lesser Antilles, the flycatcher Myiarchus oberi, and oriole Icterus oberi.
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Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived in a valley, Gaelic gleann, or a habitational name from a place named with this word, such as Glen near Peebles.English : habitational name from a place in Leicestershire, so named from an Old English word glean ‘glen’, ‘valley’ (from Celtic glinn).Jewish (Ashkenazic) : presumably an Americanized form of one or more like-sounding Jewish names.A Scottish family of this name settled among the Dutch at Beverwijck in New Netherland in the 17th century and later became prominent in Schenectady.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Middle English mede ‘meadow’ (Old English mǣd).English : metonymic occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead (Old English meodu), an alcoholic beverage made by fermenting honey.
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Dutch, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Dutch, German, Danish, and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name for a baker of bread, or brick and tiles, from backen ‘to bake’.English : occupational name for a maker or user of mattocks or pickaxes, from an agent derivative of Old English becca ‘mattock’.This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland in the mid 17th century, but it was also brought independently to North America by many other bearers.
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English (Devon and Somerset)
English (Devon and Somerset) : variant spelling of Woodbury.William Woodberry, from Somerset, England, was one of the founders of the settlement at Beverley, MA, in 1628.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant spelling of Beaver.Variant of Dutch and North German Bever.
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English
English : habitational name from the city in East Yorkshire, the name of which contains Old English beofor ‘beaver’, combined with a second element, licc, that may mean ‘stream’.
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English
English : variant spelling of Beverley.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : metonymic occupational name for a maker of habergeons, Middle English, Old French haubergeon. The habergeon was a sleeveless jacket of mail or scale armor, which was also worn for penance.Born in Beverley, Yorkshire, England, James Habersham emigrated to the infant colony of Georgia in 1738 with his friend George Whitefield. Together they established what is believed to be America’s first orphanage. Habersham was married in Bethesda, GA, in 1740 and had three surviving sons, all of whom were educated at Princeton and became ardent patriots.
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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : variant of Beaver.Variant of Dutch and North German Bever.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from any of several places in France called Beauvoir, for example in Manche, Somme, and Seine-Maritime, or from Belvoir in Leicestershire. All of these are named with Old French beu, bel ‘fair’, ‘lovely’ + veïr, voir ‘to see’, i.e. a place with a fine view.English : nickname from Middle English bevere, Old English beofor ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal.Probably a translation of cognates of 2 in other languages, in particular Dutch Bever and German Bieber.Possibly a variant of Welsh Bevan.George Beaver, a Huguenot from Alsace, came to Philadelphia, PA, in 1744.
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Dutch and North German
Dutch and North German : nickname from bever ‘beaver’, possibly referring to a hard worker, or from some other fancied resemblance to the animal.English : variant spelling of Beaver.
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English American
From the beaver meadow.
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : variant of Nacke 1.German (Näck) : from a variant of Neck, the name of a water sprite.Americanized spelling of German Knack.English : variant spelling of Nacke.This name is recorded in Beverwijck in New Netherland (Albany, NY) in the mid 17th century.
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English
English : habitational name from an unidentified place.Ralph Ellenwood (born 1607) came to Salem, MA, in September 1635 in the Truelove, and later settled in Beverly.
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English
English : nickname from Middle English drink + water. In the Middle Ages weak ale was the universal beverage among the poorer classes, and so cheap as to be drunk like water, whereas water itself was only doubtfully potable. The surname was perhaps a joking nickname given to a pauper or miser allegedly unable or unwilling to afford beer, or may have been given in irony to an innkeeper or a noted tippler. Compare French Boileau, German Trinkwasser.
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English
English : from Middle English stork ‘stork’, hence a nickname for a thin man with long legs, or perhaps occasionally a habitational name for someone living at a house distinguished by the sign of a stork. In Yorkshire, where the name is most frequent, it may be a habitational name from a place so named (now known as Storkhill), near Beverley.North German : nickname for someone thought to resemble a stork, Middle Low German stork.German : habitational name from a place so named in Hesse.
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A kind of beverage; sherbet.
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A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
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The dried tubers of various species of Orchis, and Eulophia. It is used to make a nutritious beverage by treating the powdered preparation with hot water.
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One who sells rum; one who deals in intoxicating liquors; especially, one who sells spirituous beverages at retail.
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Having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar; saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.
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The drink of the gods (as ambrosia was their food); hence, any delicious or inspiring beverage.
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A small haven. See Hithe. I () I, the ninth letter of the English alphabet, takes its form from the Phoenician, through the Latin and the Greek. The Phoenician letter was probably of Egyptian origin. Its original value was nearly the same as that of the Italian I, or long e as in mete. Etymologically I is most closely related to e, y, j, g; as in dint, dent, beverage, L. bibere; E. kin, AS. cynn; E. thin, AS. /ynne; E. dominion, donjon, dungeon.
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A beverage made of brandy and gin.
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of Bever
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An agent which produces a temporary increase of vital activity in the organism, or in any of its parts; -- sometimes used without qualification to signify an alcoholic beverage used as a stimulant.
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Liquid for drinking; drink; -- usually applied to drink artificially prepared and of an agreeable flavor; as, an intoxicating beverage.
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Acidulated whey, sometimes mixed with buttermilk and sweet herbs, used as a cooling beverage.
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The liquor used for a wassail; esp., a beverage formerly much used in England at Christmas and other festivals, made of ale (or wine) flavored with spices, sugar, toast, roasted apples, etc.; -- called also lamb's wool.
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A beverage made of wine, water, sugar, nutmeg, and lemon juice; -- so called, it is said, from its first maker, Colonel Negus.
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A beverage of molasses and water, seasoned with vinegar and ginger.
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A beverage made of wine, ale (or milk), sugar, etc.
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A beverage consisting of warm beer flavored with spices, lemon, etc.
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A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat.
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A decoction or infusion of tea leaves in boiling water; as, tea is a common beverage.