What is the name meaning of LYE. Phrases containing LYE
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Scottish
Surname meaning loyal.
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English
English : variant of Lye.French : habitational name from Ley in Moselle.French and German : from a medieval personal name, Eloy (Latin Eligius, a derivative of eligere ‘to choose or elect’), made popular by a 6th-century saint who came to be venerated as the patron of smiths and horses.German (Rhineland) : topographic name from Middle High German leie ‘rock’, ‘stone’, ‘slate’, or a habitational name from any of several places named with this word. Compare Leier.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived near a meadow, pasture, or patch of arable land, Middle English l(e)ye (late Old English lēage, dative of lēah ‘wood’, ‘glade’); or a habitational name from Lye in Herefordshire (with the same etymology).French : habitational name from Lye in Indre.French (Lyé) : habitational name from places called Lié in Deux-Sèvres and Vendée.Norwegian : habitational name from a farmstead in Rogaland named Lye, Old Norse Lýgi meaning ‘alliance’, ‘covenant’, used to denote a place sanctified by such an agreement, such as a court or council meeting place.
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English (chiefly Manchester)
English (chiefly Manchester) : occupational name for someone whose job was to steep cotton or linen in lye (a strong alkali) to cleanse it, from an agent derivative of Middle English bouken ‘to wash’ (from Middle Dutch būken).
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Vietnamese (Lý) and Hmong
Vietnamese (Lý) and Hmong : unexplained.English : variant of Lye.
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English
English : habitational name from any of the numerous places (in at least sixteen counties, but especially Leigh in Lancashire) named either with the nominative case of Old English lēah ‘woodland clearing’ (see Lee) or with lēage, a late dative form of this word (see Lye).
Boy/Male
British, English
From the Island
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Arabic
Wealth
Boy/Male
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Love for Happiness
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English
English : variant spelling of Pask.Danish (Paaske) : from a vernacular short form of the Latin personal name Paschalis (see Pascal), or perhaps a nickname for someone who was born at Easter, påske, or had some other particular connection with that time of year, such as owing a feudal obligation then.German : from an eastern (Slavic) short form of the medieval personal names Paschasius or Paschalis (see Pascal).German : habitational name from Paska in Thuringia.German (Päske) : from an eastern (Slavic) short form of the personal name Petrus (see Peter).
Girl/Female
English Hebrew
Jehovah has been gracious; has shown favor.
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Full of Fragrance Like Sandalwood
Male
English
Anglicized form of Irish Gaelic Toirdhealbhach, TURLOUGH means "instigator."
Boy/Male
British, English, Swedish
He who Holds Christ in his Heart; Follower of Christ; Diminutive of Christopher
Girl/Female
Indian, Punjabi, Sikh
Contentment
Boy/Male
Hindu, Indian
Mountain of Jewels
Boy/Male
Hindu
One who accepts all penances
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n.
The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).
a.
Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
n.
A white amorphous or granular substance which consists principally of potassium carbonate, and has a strong alkaline reaction. It is obtained by lixiviating wood ashes, and evaporating the lye, and has been an important source of potassium compounds. It is used in making soap, glass, etc.
n.
See Lye.
n.
The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
v. t.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
n.
A falsehood.
v. t.
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
n.
See Lye.
n. pl.
A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
a.
Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.
n.
A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
n.
A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
n.
Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
a.
Of the color of lye; resembling lye.
n.
The cicada.
n.
A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.
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A series of strata, of the Middle Tertiary period, of France, abounding in shells, and used by Lyell as the type of his Miocene subdivision.