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English (Yorkshire)
English (Yorkshire) : habitational name from a place so named, probably the one in Lincolnshire, although there is also one in Wiltshire. The place name is derived from Old English netele ‘nettle’ + tūn ‘enclosure’, ‘settlement’.
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English (Cornwall)
English (Cornwall) : probably a topographic name for someone who lived at a place overgrown with nettles, Middle English net(t)el.Respelling of North German Nettel, a nickname for an obnoxious person, from Middle Low German nettel ‘nettle’.
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English
English : variant of Nettle.
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n.
Nettle rash. See Urticaria.
imp. & p. p.
of Nettle
n.
The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
v. i.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
a.
Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.
v. t.
A sharp-pointed hollow hair seated on a gland which secrets an acrid fluid, as in nettles. The points of these hairs usually break off in the wound, and the acrid fluid is pressed into it.
n.
A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree.
n.
An herb (Pilea pumila) of the Nettle family, having a smooth, juicy, pellucid stem; -- called also clearweed.
n.
A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.
n.
The nettle rash, a disease characterized by a transient eruption of red pimples and of wheals, accompanied with a burning or stinging sensation and with itching; uredo.
a.
Of or pertaining to a natural order (Urticaceae) of plants, of which the nettle is the type. The order includes also the hop, the elm, the mulberry, the fig, and many other plants.
v. t. & i.
To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
n.
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. curruca).
n.
One who nettles.
n.
Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
n. pl.
Reef points.
v. t.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
n.
A plant of the genus Urtica, covered with minute sharp hairs containing a poison that produces a stinging sensation. Urtica gracitis is common in the Northern, and U. chamaedryoides in the Southern, United States. the common European species, U. urens and U. dioica, are also found in the Eastern united States. U. pilulifera is the Roman nettle of England.
n.
The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.