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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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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.
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Biblical
A live brother; my thorn or thistle.
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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).
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British, English
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’.
Biblical
a live brother; my thorn or thistle
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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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British, Chinese, English, Finnish, German, Hebrew, Indian, Swedish, Tamil
God is Gracious; Variant of Hannah; Favour; Grace; God has Shown Favour; Ornament
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Tamil
Siddhant | ஸிதà¯à®¤à®¾à®‚தÂ
Rule, Principals
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English
Variant spelling of English Nevin, NEVAN means either "little bone" or "little saint."
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English
English : variant of Allgood.
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Muslim
Generous, Old Arabic name of the sea
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Japanese
(七郎) Japanese name SHICHIRO means "seventh son."
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Hindu
Good looking
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Hindu, Indian
A Name of Lord Buddha
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Biblical
Fear, or throwing down, of the Lord.
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Muslim/Islamic
Queen
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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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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 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.
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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.
v. t.
Belonging to the order Compositae; bearing involucrate heads of many small florets, as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
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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.
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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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The flying feathery or hairy crown of seeds or achenes, as the down of the thistle.
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A small American finch (Spinus tristis); the thistle bird.
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A little flower; one of the numerous little flowers which compose the head or anthodium in such flowers as the daisy, thistle, and dandelion.
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A dense cluster of flowers, as in clover, daisies, thistles; a capitulum.
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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.
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The American goldfinch, or thistle bird. See Goldfinch.
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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.
a.
Overgrown with thistles; as, thistly ground.
n.
A feathery crown of seed; egret; as, the aigrette or down of the dandelion or the thistle.
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A large genus of composite plants, related to the thistles and including the cornflower or bluebottle (Centaurea Cyanus) and the star thistle (C. Calcitrapa).