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British, English
Thistle
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English
English : apparently a topographic name for someone who lived where there was an abundance of thistles, from Middle English thistleProbably an Americanized form of German Distel.
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Jewish (Ashkenazic)
Jewish (Ashkenazic) : occupational name from Yiddish tesler ‘carpenter’. Compare Tesler.German : variant of Teschner.English : from an agent derivative of Old English tǣsel ‘teasel’, hence an occupational name for someone whose job was to brush the surface of newly-woven cloth or to card wood preparatory to spinning, using the dry seed-heads of teasels (a kind of thistle).
Biblical
a live brother; my thorn or thistle
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : habitational name from a minor place in the parish of Lancaster called Thistlethwaite, from Middle English thistle + thwaite ‘meadow’ (see Thwaites), i.e. a meadow overgrown with thistles.
Boy/Male
Biblical
A live brother; my thorn or thistle.
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English
English : from Anglo-Norman French cardon ‘thistle’ (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), probably applied as a topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of land overgrown with thistles, as an occupational name for someone involved in the carding of wool, originally carried out with thistle and teasel heads, or as a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person.English : habitational name from Carden in Cheshire, which is recorded in the mid 13th century in the form Kawrdin and in the early 14th century as Cawardyn; it is probably named with Old English carr ‘rock’ + wor{dh}ign ‘enclosure’.
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French
French : from Old Norman French cardon ‘thistle’ (a diminutive of carde, from Latin carduus), hence a topographic name for someone who lived on land overgrown with thistles, an occupational name for someone who carded wool (originally a process carried out with thistles and teasels), or perhaps a nickname for a prickly and unapproachable person.French : possibly from a reduced form of the personal name Ricardon, a pet form of Richard.English : variant spelling of Carden, cognate with 1.
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Arabic, Muslim
Cheerful; Lively; Gay-tempered
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English
English : variant spelling of Burgess.
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Scandinavian Hebrew
Pledge.
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Gaelic Irish
A Gaelic name of unknown meaning.
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Indian
The god who carried Vishnu.
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Indian
Rocklike, Strong
Biblical
a strong army; a gang of robbers
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Australian, French, Greek, Polish
From the High Tower
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Tamil
Fresh butter, Gentle, Soft, Always new
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Tamil
A good friend
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n.
Any one of several prickly composite plants, especially those of the genera Cnicus, Craduus, and Onopordon. The name is often also applied to other prickly plants.
n.
An amorphous variety of manna obtained from the nests and cocoons of a Syrian coleopterous insect (Larinus maculatus, L. nidificans, etc.) which feeds on the foliage of a variety of thistle. It is used as an article of food, and is called also nest sugar.
n.
A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
n.
A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
n.
A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
a.
Fig.: Resembling a thistle or thistles; sharp; pricking.
n.
The pubescence of plants; the hairy crown or envelope of the seeds of certain plants, as of the thistle.
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The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
n.
A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).
v. t.
Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
n.
A genus of umbelliferous plants somewhat like thistles in appearance. Eryngium maritimum, or sea holly, has been highly esteemed as an aphrodisiac, the roots being formerly candied.
a.
Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
n.
The hairy or feathery appendage of the achenes of thistles, dandelions, and most other plants of the order Compositae; also, the scales, awns, or bristles which represent the calyx in other plants of the same order.
n.
The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the name is also applied) is composed of numerous oval scales, inclosing the florets, sitting on a broad receptacle, which, with the fleshy base of the scales, is much esteemed as an article of food.
n.
A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.
n.
Any small seedlike fruit, though it may consist of a pericarp, or even a calyx, as well as the seed proper; as, parsnip seed; thistle seed.
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A beautiful bright-colored European finch (Carduelis elegans). The name refers to the large patch of yellow on the wings. The front of the head and throat are bright red; the nape, with part of the wings and tail, black; -- called also goldspink, goldie, fool's coat, drawbird, draw-water, thistle finch, and sweet William.
n.
The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.