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MEAD
Surname or Lastname
English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : of uncertain origin, probably from Middle English metecalf ‘food calf’, i.e. a calf being fattened up for eating at the end of the summer. It is thus either an occupational name for a herdsman or slaughterer, or a nickname for a sleek and plump individual, from the same word in a transferred sense. The variants in med- appear early, and suggest that the first element was associated by folk etymology with Middle English mead ‘meadow’, ‘pasture’.
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English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow. Compare Mead. The form meadow derives from mǣdwe, the dative case of Old English mǣd.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, British, English, Irish
From the Meadow; Honey Wine; Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Meader.
Female
Celtic
, mirth.
Female
Irish
Modern form of Old Irish Gaelic Medb, MEADHBH means "intoxicating." In mythology, this is the name of a warrior queen of Connacht, the wife of Ailill.
Boy/Male
English
From the meadow.
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English
English : variant of or patronymic from Meader.
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English
English : variant of Mead 1.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of or patronymic from Meader.
Boy/Male
English Irish
Honey wine. Meadow.
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Meadow.
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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.
Boy/Male
American, Anglo, Australian, British, English
From the Meadow; Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : topographic name for someone who lived by a meadow, from Mead 1 + the suffix -er, denoting an inhabitant.English : occupational name for a brewer or seller of mead, Middle English med(i)er (see Mead 2).
Girl/Female
British, English, Greek
Meadow; Honey Wine; One who Lives by Meadow
Surname or Lastname
English
English : habitational name from Meadowcroft in Middleton, Lancashire.
Girl/Female
British, English, Greek
Meadow; Who Lives by Meadow
Male
English
Variant spelling of English unisex Mead, MEADE means "lives by a meadow."
Girl/Female
American, British, Chinese, Christian, English
Field of Flower; Grass; Vegetation; A Meadow; A Grassy Field
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n.
High land; ground elevated above the meadows and intervals which lie on the banks of rivers, near the sea, or between hills; land which is generally dry; -- opposed to lowland, meadow, marsh, swamp, interval, and the like.
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Any one of many species of butterflies belonging to the family Nymphalidae. Their colors are commonly brown and gray, often with ocelli on the wings. Called also meadow browns.
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The European meadow pipit; a titlark.
n.
The meadow pipit.
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Alt. of Meadowwort
a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
n.
A thin, fragrant, colorless oil, HO.C6H4.CHO, found in the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiraea), and also obtained by oxidation of salicin, saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also salicylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, / spiroylous, acid.
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The meadow pipit.
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Green; greenness; freshness of vegetation; as, the verdure of the meadows in June.
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The meadow saffron.
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Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
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A meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
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A meadow.
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Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
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Any one of numerous small spring birds belonging to Anthus, Corydalla, and allied genera, which resemble the true larks in color and in having a very long hind claw; especially, the European meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis).
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The meadow pipit.
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The meadow pipit.
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Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.