What is the name meaning of LINT. Phrases containing LINT
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Boy/Male
English American
From the flax enclosure.
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English
English : metonymic occupational name for a dresser of flax, from Middle English lynet, lynt ‘flax’.Dutch : from a short form of a Germanic name formed with lind (see Linde 1).Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a linen weaver or merchant.
Girl/Female
Arabic, Finnish, Muslim
Soft Heart; Pretty
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German
German : from Middle High German lins(e) ‘lentil’, presumably a metonymic occupational nickname for a grower of lentils.German : from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Old High German lint ‘snake’ or linta ‘linden tree’, ‘shield’.English (Staffordshire) : unexplained. Possibly a variant of Lynes.Latvian : possibly from lins ‘flax’.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Linton, LYNTON means "cotton/flax settlement."
Boy/Male
American, British, English
From the Flax Enclosure
Boy/Male
American, Australian, British, Christian, English, Jamaican
From the Flax Enclosure; Lyne; Lime Tree; Flax Settlement
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Flax Settlement
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : from a derivative of a Germanic personal name formed with the initial element lind (see Linde 1 and Lins 2).English : habitational name from Lintz, County Durham, so named from Old English hlinc ‘hillside’. Compare Lynch 3.
Male
Hungarian
Hungarian form of Latin Valentinus, BÃLINT means "healthy, strong."
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n.
See Linseed.
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See Linnet.
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A compress, or small flat tent of lint, laid over a wound, ulcer, or the like, to exclude air, retain dressings, or absorb the matter discharged.
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A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree.
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The uppermost of any assemblage of parts; as, the cap of column, door, etc.; a capital, coping, cornice, lintel, or plate.
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A summer or girder extending across a building flush with, and supporting, the upper part of a front or external wall; a long lintel; a girder; -- used principally above shop windows.
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Flax.
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Any one of several species of fringilline birds of the genera Linota, Acanthis, and allied genera, esp. the common European species (L. cannabina), which, in full summer plumage, is chestnut brown above, with the breast more or less crimson. The feathers of its head are grayish brown, tipped with crimson. Called also gray linnet, red linnet, rose linnet, brown linnet, lintie, lintwhite, gorse thatcher, linnet finch, and greater redpoll. The American redpoll linnet (Acanthis linaria) often has the crown and throat rosy. See Redpoll, and Twite.
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A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
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Any part of a building, whether constructional, as a pier, column, lintel, or the like, or decorative, as a molding, or group of moldings.
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A horizontal member spanning an opening, and carrying the superincumbent weight by means of its strength in resisting crosswise fracture.
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Linen scraped or otherwise made into a soft, downy or fleecy substance for dressing wounds and sores; also, fine ravelings, down, fluff, or loose short fibers from yarn or fabrics.
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Any detached mass of masonry, whether insulated or supporting one side of an arch or lintel, as of a bridge; the piece of wall between two openings.
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The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.
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Alt. of Lintwhite
v. t.
To remove fiber, flock, or lint from; -- said of the teeth of a card when it becomes partly clogged.
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The under side of the subordinate parts and members of buildings, such as staircases, entablatures, archways, cornices, or the like. See Illust. of Lintel.
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An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback.
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The space within an arch, and above a lintel or a subordinate arch, spanning the opening below the arch.
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Lint; esp., lint made into a tent for insertion into wounds or ulcers.