What is the name meaning of NETTLES. Phrases containing NETTLES
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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 : variant of Nettle.
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a.
Resembling nettles; -- said of several natural orders allied to urticaceous plants.
n. pl.
Reef points.
n.
A genus of plants including the common nettles. See Nettle, n.
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. pl.
The halves of yarns in the unlaid end of a rope twisted for pointing or grafting.
n.
See Nettles.
v. i.
Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
n. pl.
A group of Coelenterata, including the Medusae or jellyfishes, and hydroids; -- so called from the stinging power they possess. Sometimes called sea nettles.
n. pl.
Small lines used to sling hammocks under the deck beams.
v. t. & i.
To sting with, or as with, nettles; to irritate; to annoy.
n.
A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
n.
The act or process of whipping or stinging with nettles; -- sometimes used in the treatment of paralysis.
v. t.
To pierce or wound with a sting; as, bees will sting an animal that irritates them; the nettles stung his hands.
n.
One who nettles.
n.
A handsome butterfly (Pyrameis Atalanta) of Europe and America. The larva feeds on nettles.