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English (chiefly southern) and Dutch
English (chiefly southern) and Dutch : topographic name for a dweller in a hollow (see Hole).English (chiefly southern) : topographic name for a dweller by a holly tree or on an island, from Middle English holm (see Holme) + man.
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English
English : habitational name from Holmer in Buckinghamshire and Herefordshire, both named with Old English hol ‘hollow’ + mere ‘pool’.English : topographic name for someone who lived either on a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams or where holly grew, from a derivative of Middle English holm (see Holm 1 and 2).Swedish, Danish, and North German (Schleswig-Holstein) : topographic name for someone who lived on an island (see Holm).
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived among holly trees, from Middle English holins, a plural form from Old English hollegn ‘holly’.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, variant of Hollen.German : habitational name from any of several places so named.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : topographic name from Middle English holin, holi(e) ‘holly tree’. Compare Hollen.
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American, Anglo, Australian, British, Chinese, Christian, Danish, English, French, German, Irish, Jamaican
To Prick; Holly Grove; Shrub with Red Berries; Evergreen
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English (mainly central)
English (mainly central) : topographic name for someone who lived where holly trees grew, from Middle English holi(n)s, plural of holin, holi(e) (Old English hole(g)n).
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English (northern)
English (northern) : habitational name from a lost place in County Durham called Hollingside or Holmside, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + sīde ‘hillside’, ‘slope’; there is a Hollingside Lane on the southern outskirts of Durham city. In some cases it may be from Hollinhead in Lancashire, so named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + hēafod ‘headland’, ‘ridge’.
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Irish
Irish : part-translation of Gaelic Mac Cuilinn (see McCullen) in County Kerry, and in Ulster sometimes a variant of McQuillan, also an Anglicized form of Mac Cuilinn. It is rarely of English origin.English : variant spelling of Holley.Possibly an altered spelling of Czech or Slovak Holý (see Holy).
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English and Irish
English and Irish : habitational name from places in Cheshire and Lancashire called Hollingworth, from Old English hole(g)n ‘holly’ + worð ‘enclosure’. The surname was taken to Ireland in the 17th century.Jewish (American) : presumably an Americanized form of some like-sounding Jewish name.
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Australian, British, English
Form of Holly; Holly Grove
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Christian & English(British/American/Australian)
The Holly Bush
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South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic)
South German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : habitational name for someone from places called Holling or Hollingen.English, northern Irish, and Scottish : topographic name from Middle English holin ‘holly’ + the suffix -er denoting an inhabitant.
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Irish
Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hEodhusa ‘descendant of Eodhus’; this was the name of a bardic family associated with the Maguires of Fermanagh, also Anglicized as Oswell, Oswald.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Houssaye in Seine-Maritime, so called from a collective noun from Old French hous ‘holly’.English : nickname for a woman who was mistress of her own household, from Middle English husewif (a compound of Old English hūs ‘house’ + wīf ‘woman’). It was not until the 17th century that this word acquired pejorative connotations.
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English (Kent)
English (Kent) : habitational name, probably from a lost place, Holmherst in Smarden, Kent; Holnest in Dorset is another possibility. Both are named from Old English holegn ‘holly’ + Old English hyrst ‘wooded hill’.English (Kent) : reduced form of Holderness.
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Dutch and North German (Hülse)
Dutch and North German (Hülse) : topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, Middle Low German huls, hüls.English (mainly Lancashire) : habitational name from a place in Cheshire, recorded in the mid 13th century in the forms Holes, Holis, and Holys. This probably represents a Middle English plural of Old English holh ‘hollow’, ‘depression’ (see Hole).
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English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish
English (mainly Lancashire) and Scottish : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly tree, from Middle English holm, a divergent development of Old English hole(g)n; the main development was towards modern English holly (see Hollis).English and Scottish : topographic name or habitational name from northern Middle English holm ‘island’, Old Norse holmr (see Holm 1).Danish and Swedish : variant of Holm 1.Norwegian : habitational name from any of several farmsteads, so named from the dative singular of Old Norse holmr ‘islet’, ‘low flat land beside a river’.
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English and French
English and French : occupational name for a brothelkeeper, Middle English, Old French holier, hollier (a dissimilated variant of horier ‘pimp’, agent noun from hore, hure ‘whore’, of Germanic origin). It was probably also used as an abusive nickname.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a holly grove or conspicuous holly tree, from a derivative of Middle English holi(e), holin ‘holly (tree)’ (from Old English hold(g)n).
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English
English : variant spelling of Hollifield.
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Northern English, German, and Scandinavian
Northern English, German, and Scandinavian : topographic name for someone who lived on an island, in particular a piece of slightly raised land lying in a fen or partly surrounded by streams, Middle English, Middle Low German holm, Old Norse holmr, or a habitational name from a place named with this element. The Swedish name is often ornamental.English : topographic name for someone who lived where holly grew, from Middle English holm, a variant of holin ‘holly’, or possibly a habitational name from places called Holme (Dorset and West Yorkshire) or Holne (Devon), named with this word.
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A genus of plants (herbs, shrubs, or trees), some species of which have large, showy flowers. Some species are cultivated in India for their fiber, which is used as a substitute for hemp. See Althea, Hollyhock, and Manoe.
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A genus of evergreen trees and shrubs, including the common holly.
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The bitter principle of the holly.
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A species of Althaea (A. rosea), bearing flowers of various colors; -- called also rose mallow.
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Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.
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The holm oak. See 1st Holm.
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Holly, an evergreen shrub or tree.
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A yellow dye obtained from the leaves of the holly.
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A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.
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The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
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A tree or shrub of the genus Ilex. The European species (Ilex Aguifolium) is best known, having glossy green leaves, with a spiny, waved edge, and bearing berries that turn red or yellow about Michaelmas.
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A shrub (Ilex Cassine) of the Holly family, native from Virginia to Florida. The smooth elliptical leaves are used as a substitute for tea, and were formerly used in preparing the black drink of the Indians of North Carolina. Called also South-Sea tea.
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A common evergreen oak, of Europe (Quercus Ilex); -- called also ilex, and holly.
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Wholly.
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Pertaining to, or derived from, the holly (Ilex), and allied plants; as, ilicic acid.
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The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.