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CHESTNUT
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English (southeastern)
English (southeastern) : nickname for someone with reddish hair, from a diminutive of Anglo-Norman French sor ‘chestnut (color)’.
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Portuguese
Portuguese : occupational name from soeiro ‘swineherd’, Latin suerius.English : patronymic from a nickname for someone with reddish hair, from Anglo-Norman French sor ‘chestnut (color)’.
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English, French, and Dutch
English, French, and Dutch : nickname for someone with chestnut or auburn hair, from Middle English, Old French bay, bai, Middle Dutch bay ‘reddish brown’ (Latin badius, used originally of horses).English : from the Middle English personal name Baye, Old English Bēaga (masculine) or Bēage (feminine).Scottish : reduced form of McBeth.German : from the Germanic personal name Baio.The name is also found in Denmark and Norway, where it may be a short form of German Bayer or from baygh, originally a loan word from French denoting a type of fabric.
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English
English : from early English chesten nut ‘chestnut’ (from Middle English chesteine ‘chestnut’ + nut), a topographic name for someone who lived by a chestnut tree, or possibly a nickname for someone with chestnut-colored hair.
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English
English : variant spelling of Chestnut.
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English
English : variant spelling of Chestnut.
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English American German Spanish Teutonic
From the pointed hill.
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Gaelic
Peg.
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Russian
(Венедикт) Russian form of Greek Benediktos, VENEDIKT means "blessed."Â
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Indian, Tamil
Fawn; Polish
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English
English : nickname, possibly for someone who was very dextrous such as a juggler or conjuror, from Old French quatremains ‘four hands’.
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English (Lancashire)
English (Lancashire) : perhaps a variant of Warburton; otherwise a habitational name from a lost or unidentified place.
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Hindu
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French
Dark haired.
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Hindu, Indian
Lord Shiva Shiva's Other Name
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Indian, Telugu
Goddess
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Having a bay, chestnut, brown, or black color, with gray or white thickly interspersed; -- said of a horse.
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Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut.
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The water chestnut (Trapa natans).
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A yellow crystalline substance, occurring quite widely distributed in the vegetable kingdom, as is apple-tree bark, horse-chestnut leaves, etc., but originally obtained by the decomposition of quercitrin. Called also meletin.
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Of the color of a chestnut; of a reddish brown color; as, chestnut curls.
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A hoofed quadruped of the genus Equus; especially, the domestic horse (E. caballus), which was domesticated in Egypt and Asia at a very early period. It has six broad molars, on each side of each jaw, with six incisors, and two canine teeth, both above and below. The mares usually have the canine teeth rudimentary or wanting. The horse differs from the true asses, in having a long, flowing mane, and the tail bushy to the base. Unlike the asses it has callosities, or chestnuts, on all its legs. The horse excels in strength, speed, docility, courage, and nobleness of character, and is used for drawing, carrying, bearing a rider, and like purposes.
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A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut.
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A chestnut color; maroon.
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The large nutlike seed of a species of Aesculus (Ae. Hippocastanum), formerly ground, and fed to horses, whence the name.
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A large chestnut.
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The tree itself, which was brought from Constantinople in the beginning of the sixteenth century, and is now common in the temperate zones of both hemispheres. The native American species are called buckeyes.
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An arctic finch (Plectrophenax, / Plectrophanes, nivalis) common, in winter, both in Europe and the United States, and often appearing in large flocks during snowstorms. It is partially white, but variously marked with chestnut and brown. Called also snow bunting, snowflake, snowfleck, and snowflight.
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A shell, husk, or pod; especially, the outer covering of such nuts as the hickory nut, butternut, peanut, and chestnut.
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A species of inflorescence; a dense panicle, as in the lilac and horse-chestnut.
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The horse chestnut (often so used in England).
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An American singing bird (Merula migratoria), having the breast chestnut, or dull red. The upper parts are olive-gray, the head and tail blackish. Called also robin redbreast, and migratory thrush.
v. t.
To dry and parch by exposure to heat; as, to roast coffee; to roast chestnuts, or peanuts.
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Of a bright clear brown or chestnut color.