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British, English
From the Island
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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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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).
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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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Scottish
Surname meaning loyal.
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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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n.
A falsehood.
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Lye or suds in which cloth is soaked in the operation of bleaching, or in which clothes are washed.
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Of or pertaining to lye or lixivium; of the quality of alkaline salts.
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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.
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See Lye.
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A short side line, connected with the main line; a turn-out; a siding.
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See Lye.
v. t.
To wash (clothes) in lye or suds, or, in later usage, by beating them on stones in running water.
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Pertaining to, or characteristic of, the Lyencephala.
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Of the color of lye; resembling lye.
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A strong caustic alkaline solution of potassium salts, obtained by leaching wood ashes. It is much used in making soap, etc.
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A large tub or vat in which goods are subjected to the action of hot lye or bleaching liquor; -- also called keeve.
n. pl.
A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; -- so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.
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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.
v. t.
To soak, steep, or boil, in lye or suds; -- a process in bleaching.
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The process of separating soap from spent lye, as with salt.
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The cicada.
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The impure potassium carbonate obtained by leaching wood ashes, either as a strong solution (lye), or as a white crystalline (pearlash).