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LOWER
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English
English : variant of Lowers.
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English
English : occupational name for a slaughterer of animals, from Middle English slahter (an agent derivative of slaht ‘killing’).English : topographic name from Middle English sloghtre ‘boggy place’, or a habitational name from a place named with this term (Old English slÅhtre), for example Upper and Lower Slaughter in Gloucestershire.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a blackthorn or sloe, Old English slÄhtrÄ“ow.
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English
English : habitational name from places so named in Merseyside (formerly in Cheshire) and County Durham or from Roby in Merseyside (formerly in Lancashire). The first is named from Old Scandinavian rá ‘pole’ + býr ‘farmstead’, ‘settlement’.French : variant of Rabin.German : habitational name from Raby in Bohemia or perhaps from Rabingen in Lower Saxony.Probably from the Saintonge region of France, a Raby or Rabis was documented in Quebec City in 1689, with the secondary surname Saintonge.
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English
English : variant of Thrower.Irish : reduced Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Treabhair (see Trevor).Americanized spelling of German Trauer, a habitational name for someone from Trauen in Lower Saxony.
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English (chiefly Yorkshire)
English (chiefly Yorkshire) : habitational name from any of various places so called, for example in Cheshire, Gloucestershire, and West Yorkshire. The first is from a lost place in Lower Bebington, named from Old English hol ‘hollow’ + weg ‘way’; the second is from Old English hol + lÄ“ah ‘woodland clearing’; and the last, Howley Hall in Moreley, is from Old English hÅfe ‘ground ivy’ + lÄ“ah.Irish : Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó hUallaigh ‘descendant of Uallach’, a personal name or byname from uallach ‘proud’.
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English (southwest)
English (southwest) : occupational name for a digger of ditches or a builder of dikes, or a topographic name for someone who lived by a ditch or dike, from an agent derivative of Middle English diche, dike (see Dyke).English : regional name from an area of East Sussex, near Hellingly, called ‘the Dicker’ (hence also the hamlets of Upper and Lower Dicker), from Middle English dyker unit of ten (Latin decuria, from decem ‘ten’); the reason for the place being so named is not clear. It has been suggested that the reference is to a bundle of iron rods, in which sense dicras appears in Domesday Book. Such a bundle could have been the rent for property in this iron-working area. Surname forms such as atte dicker occur in the surrounding region in the 13th and 14th centuries.German and Jewish (Ashkenazic) : variant of Dick 2, from an inflected form.North German : variant of Low German Dieker, a topographic or an occupational name for someone who lived or worked at a dike (see Dieck).Americanized spelling of French Decaire.
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English : occupational name for a spinner or a maker of distaffs, from an agent derivative of Middle English rok ‘distaff’ (see Rock).German : from a Germanic personal name based on hrÅd ‘renown’.habitational name from a farm named Rokken in Pustertal, south Tyrol (Italy).German (Röcker) : from a topographic name or a place name Röcke (formerly Roke) near Bückeburg, Lower Saxony.
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English
English : variant of Rhodes.German : variant spelling of Rohde (see Rode), principally a habitational name from any of various places named Rohde or Rohden in Lower Saxony, Saxony, Westphalia, and Hesse.According to family tradition, a certain John Rhode (1752–1840) was a Quaker who came to SC from Germany in the 1770s and served as a baggageman or teamster during the American Revolution.
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Female servant of lower rank
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English
English : from a medieval personal name, a short form of Philpott.English : topographic name for someone who lived by a depression in the ground, from Middle English pot ‘drinking or storage vessel’ used in this transferred sense, or a habitational name from one of the minor places deriving their name from this word, in the sense ‘pit’, ‘hole’.English and North German (Lower Rhine-Westphalia) : metonymic occupational name for a potter, from Middle English, Middle Low German pot ‘pot’. See also Potter.North German : topographic name for someone living on a low-lying plot, from Low German dialect pÅt ‘puddle’.
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North German
North German : variant of the habitational name Lewing, from a place near Stade in Lower Saxony.North German : patronymic from a personal name (Lehwing or Lewien), formed with Middle Low German lev ‘dear’ + win ‘friend’.English : perhaps a habitational name from Levens in Cumbria, probably so named from the Old English personal name LÄ“ofa (+ genitive n) + næss ‘promontory’, ‘headland’.Possibly a hypercorrected spelling of Irish Levens, a County Louth name, which Woulfe interprets as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac DhuinnshlébhÃn, a variant of Dunleavy.
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Dutch (van Lingen) and German
Dutch (van Lingen) and German : habitational name from Lingen on the Ems river in Lower Saxony, Westphalia, and the former East Prussia.English (Herefordshire) : habitational name from a place in Herefordshire, so named from an old British stream name, Welsh llyn ‘water’ + possibly cain ‘clear’, ‘beautiful’.
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Northern Irish
Northern Irish : shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Mealláin ‘descendant of Meallán’, a personal name that is a diminutive of meall ‘pleasant’.English (of Norman origin) : habitational name from Meulan in Seine-et-Oise.Dutch (van Mellon) : habitational name from Millun bij Keulen.Thomas and Sarah Jane Mellon came to Pittsburgh, PA, from Lower Castletown, Tyrone, Ireland, in 1818. Their grandson, the industrialist and financier Andrew William Mellon (1855–1937) is remembered not only as a businessman but also as an art collector. He served as secretary of the Treasury from 1921 to 1932.
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English (of Norman origin)
English (of Norman origin) : occupational name denoting a servant who carried the ewer to guests at table so that they could wash their hands, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English ewerer (related to ewere ‘jug’), with the French definite article l’.Cornish : variant of Flower 4.
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Altered spelling of German Dingle.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Tüngler, a habitational name for someone from Tunglen near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony); or alternatively a topographic name for someone living on a tongue-shaped piece of land, f
Altered spelling of German Dingle.Possibly an altered spelling of North German Tüngler, a habitational name for someone from Tunglen near Oldenburg (Lower Saxony); or alternatively a topographic name for someone living on a tongue-shaped piece of land, from Middle Low German tungle ‘tongue’.English : habitational name, possibly from Tingley in West Yorkshire, named from Old English þing ‘meeting’, ‘assembly’ + hlÄw ‘mound’. However, this is a predominantly southern name, associated chiefly with Sussex and Kent, which suggests that a different, unidentified source may be involved.
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English
English : variant of Dixon.Possibly a German topographic name from a reduced form (typical of the Lower Rhine) of Middle Low German dīk ‘dike’ + hūs ‘house’.
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English
English : variant of Lower.
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English
English : occupational name for a servant (Middle English man) of a man named Hake (see Hake).Respelling of German Hackmann, or a Jewish spelling variant of this name.Respelling of German Hachmann, topographic name for someone living near a hedge or enclosure, from Middle Low German hach ‘hedge’, ‘enclosure’, ‘fenced pasture or woodland’, or habitational name from a place called Hachum (dialect Hachen) in Lower Saxony.
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English
English : habitational name from (East, South, and, formerly, West) Harting in West Sussex, named with an unattested Old English byname Heort ‘hart’ + -ingas, a suffix denoting ‘family, dependants, or followers’.North German (also Härting) : patronymic from Hart or Hardt 2.German : habitational name from any of several places so named in Bavaria or from Hartingen, near Diepholz, Lower Saxony.
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German and Dutch
German and Dutch : metonymic occupational name for a dealer in cloth or a tailor, from Middle High German, Middle Low German el(l)e ‘yardstick’, ‘length of the lower arm’.German : from a short form, Edilo, from any of various Germanic personal names composed with adal ‘noble family’.English : from the female personal name Ela, a reduced form of Elena and possibly also of Eleanor.
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v. i.
To fall; to sink; to grow less; to diminish; to decrease; as, the river lowered as rapidly as it rose.
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To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
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Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.
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A short, sleeveless coat or garment for men, worn under the coat, extending no lower than the hips, and covering the waist; a vest.
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To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
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Cloudy; gloomy; lowering; as, a lowery sky; lowery weather.
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To reduce the degree, intensity, strength, etc., of; as, to lower the temperature of anything; to lower one's vitality; to lower distilled liquors.
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In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.
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Pertaining to, or kept in, the lower case; -- used to denote the small letters, in distinction from capitals and small capitals. See the Note under 1st Case, n., 3.
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To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one's ambition, aspirations, or hopes.
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To bring down; to humble; as, to lower one's pride.
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The quality or state of being vulgar; mean condition of life; the state of the lower classes of society.
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A small yellow-headed bird (Auriparus flaviceps) of Lower California, allied to the titmice; -- called also goldtit.
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To reduce in value, amount, etc. ; as, to lower the price of goods, the rate of interest, etc.
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An instrument in form and use resembling the violin, but larger, and a fifth lower in compass.
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A stringed instrument of music; a bass viol of four strings, or a bass violin with long, large strings, giving sounds an octave lower than the viola, or tenor or alto violin.