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NAME, n.
1. That by which a thing is called; the sound or combination of sounds used to express an idea, or any material substance, quality or act; an appellation attached to a thing by customary use, by which it may be vocally distinguished from other things. A name may be attached to an individual only, and is then proper or appropriate, as John, Thomas, London, Paris; or it may be attached to a species, genus, or class of things, as sheep, goat, horse, tree, animal, which are called common names, specific or generic.
2. The letters or characters written or engraved, expressing the sounds by which a person or thing is known and distinguished.
3. A person.
They list with women each degenerate name.
4. Reputation; character; that which is commonly said of a person; as a good name; a bad name.
5. Renown; fame; honor; celebrity; eminence; praise; distinction.
What men of name resort to him?
6. Remembrance; memory.
The Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven. Deu 29.
7. Appearance only; sound only; not reality; as a friend in name. Rev 3.
8. Authority; behalf; part; as in the name of the people. When a man speaks or acts in the name of another, he does it by their authority or in their behalf, as their representative.
9. Assumed character of another.
Had forged a treason in my patrons name.
10. In Scripture, the name of God signifies his titles, his attributes, his will or purpose,, his honor and glory, his word, his grace, his wisdom, power and goodness, his worship or service, or God himself.
11. Issue; posterity that preserves the name. Deu 25.
12. In grammar, a noun.
To call names, to apply opprobrious names; to call by reproachful appellations.
To take the name of God in vain, to swear falsely or profanely,, or to use the name of God with levity or contempt. Exo 20.
To know by name, to honor by a particular friendship or familiarity. Exo 33.
Christian name, the name a person receives by baptism, as distinguished from surname.
NAME, v.t. to call, to name, to invoke.
1. To set or give to any person or thing a sound or combination of sounds by which it may be known and distinguished ; to call; to give an appellation to.
She named the child Ichabod. 1 Sam 4.
Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work confusion named.
2. To mention by name; to utter or pronounce the sound or sounds by which a person or thing is known and distinguished.
Neither use thyself to the naming of the Holy One.
3. To nominate; to designate for any purpose by name.
Thou shalt anoint to me him whom I name to thee. I Samuel 16.
4. To entitle.
To the name of Christ, to make profession of faith in him. 2 Tim 4.
name appears in definitions for these words:
A Ab Abacus Abagun Abbey-lubber Abdals Abel-tree Abele Abelmosk Abib Abracadabra Absinthium Abstemious Abstract Abstraction Abyssinian Ac Acacia Acanthus Accipiter Account Accuser Acephalus Acetabulum Acid Acitli Acorus Acoustic Acrostic Active Adam Adamant Adansonia Adar Adder-fly Adders-wort Additament Addition Address Adduce Adiaphorists Adiaphorous Adjective Administration Admiral Adonists Adoption Advance Adverb Adversaria Advocate Advowson Aed Ael Aerostat Affix Aforenamed African Agalmatolite Agaric Agate Agnominate Agnomination Ague-tree Ahaniger Ahovai Aigrette Aikraw Air-thread Aizoon Ake Al Alabaster Alatern Albinos Albion Album Alcaic Alcatraz Alco Alcohol Alcyon Alcyonium Alder Alexanders Alexandrian Algarot Algaroth Alias Alkerva All-good All-heal Allanite Alleghany Allemannic Alligator Allochroite Alone Alps Alumin Aluminum Amaryllis Amazon Amber-tree Ambrosia Ambry American Amethyst Ammocete Ammodyte Ammonium Amore Ampelite Amphibole Amphigene Amphiscil Amphora Amyztli Ana Anaconda Anagram Analcim Ananas Anatase Ancient Andalusite Andromeda Angel-fish Angina Anglic Anguilla Animal Animal-flower Annihilation Annomination Anonymous Anonymously Anoplother Another Anser Antares Anthology Anthrax Antibacchius Antonomasia Aonian Aorist Aphrodita Apocalypse Apocrisary Apollinarians Apollyon Apophyllite Appellation Appellative Appellatively Appetite Appoint Appropriate Appropriation Apsis Aqua Aquitanian Arbitration Archangel Area Arendalite Argentina Argive Argo Arima Arnot Aroph Arrack Arrow-root Arse-smart Article Artillery Asa Ascititious Asian Asiatic Ask Asperse Asphodel Asterisk Asteroid Astrea Atlantica Attar Attest Attestation Audible August Australasia Avernian Awlwort Axinite Axinomancy Axis Azure-stone Azurite B Bagnio Baikalite Ballet Ballot Balm Balsam Baltic Bam Baneberry Baptize Bar Barb Barbel Barbet Barnacle Baron Barque Barren Barrow Barse Basalt Basilicon Basilisk Bass Bastinade Batatas Battering-ram Bay Be Beak Beam Bean Bean-goose Bear Beard Bearing-cloth Bears-breech Beck Bed Bedlam Bedstraw Beer Beet-rave Befit Beguards Behight Belch Belgic Believe Bell-flower Bell-metal Bellatrix Bellows-fish Bene Beneme Benempne Bere Berlin Betray Betty Bezoar Bhuchampac Bibio Bignamed Bilberry Bilbo Bilboes Bilingsgate Bilva Binomial Binominous Bird Bird-catching Birdstares Birgander Biscuit Bishop Bishopsweed Bitch Bittervetch Bitumen Black Black-bird Black-chalk Black-friar Black-lead Blackish Bladder-nut Blade Blank Bleak Blight Blood-hound Blood-root Blood-vessel Blot Blue-bottle Boat Bog Bolt Bombard Bombasin Bonze Book Book-keeping Boops Borough Bos Botanist Botanomancy Bourn Box Brace Brad Brake Bramble Brandy Breastplate Breislakite Bret Bride Brig Brigandine Brocade-shell Brown Brucite Bucaneer Buffalo Buffet Bufonite Bug Bull Bull-fight Bull-head Bunting Burbast Burbot Burning-glass Burse Bury Bushiness Butment Butter-cups Button-stone Button-wood Byssolite Byzant Cabal Cabbage Cabirian Cadmian Caer Cake Calabash Calabash-tree Calaite Calamus Calander Calandre Caledonian Calendar Calends Calico Call Called Calling Calumniation Camaieu Camayeu Cambric Cameo Campion Candlemas Canine Canker Canker-worm Cap Cape Capitol Capitulary Capitulation Car Carcass Carnation Carolina Cart-wright Carthamus Caryatides Cassavi Cassia Castellan Casting-vote Cat Catachresis Catalogue Cawk Cedar Celandine Celebrate Celestin Celestins Census Centaur Centaury Ceol Cephalic Cerastes Ceres Cesarean Ceterach Cetin Chaffweed Chaperon Charge Charlock Charter-party Check Cherry Cherry-tree Chess-board Chiastolite Chip Chlorin Choke-cherry Cholesterin Christen Christened Christian-name Chrome Chrysalis Chuk Church Cimbric Cipher Cite Cithern Citrul Claim Clam Clay Clef Clepe Clive Cloister Club Coal-fish Cobble Cock Cockle Cockscomb Code Cognominal Cognomination Colander Cole Collective Colon Colony Colophony Color Colts-foot Comet Comforter Commeline Commissary Commitment Commons Compass Comprehension Conchoid Conge Conjugate Conjuration Conjure Conscript Consonant Consound Consul Contrate-wheel Contrive Contzontli Convention Copious Coptic Coralloidal Corn-crake Corporas Corposant Cortes Coscinomancy Cotton-weed Council Count Counter Countersign Courses Couter-signature Cow-bane Coxcomb Crab Crab-yaws Cranberry Cranes-bill Crayon Creek Crescent Cress Cretin Cricket Cross-row Crown Crusade Cry Crystal Crystallite Cuckoo Cucumber Culerage Cup Curtail Cyclolite Cystic Date Datolite Day Daycoal Dead Deanery Declarative Defamation Deism Deliverable Den Denomiinable Denominate Denominated Denomination Denominative Denominator Depute Der Description Deuteronomy Diabase Diaspore Digamma Diligence Diptych Dipyre Direction Disavow Discriminate Dish-washer Disreputable Disreputation Distaff-thistle Distinct Distinctive Diver Docket Doctor Dog Dogfish Dogstar Dogwood Dollar Dolphin Domite Dor Dormant Dotterel Drop-wort Dropsy Drug Dwarf Ead Eagle-stone Earl Earthquake Earwig Easter Echinus Ed Edders Efface Egoist Electricity Elf-arrow Elisor Elk Emew Empannel Emu Emulgent Engrave Enlist Enroll Enstyle Enter Entitle Ephod Epidote Epithet Epode Equisonance Er Erase Escurial Eternize Euclase Euphotide Euphrasy Eve Ever Everhonored Exorcise Express Expression Extol Extract F Face Faithfully Falcon Fall Father Father-in-law Fearful February Felony Fether Feverfew Fife Figure-stone Filch File Fine Fir Firm Fish Fitz Fleet Fletcher Florin Floscular Flower-fence Fluor Forejudge Forenamed Forerecited Forge Forgery Forgive Fowl Foxglove Franc Franklinite Freethinker Frieze Frontinac Fuel Fusil G Gabbro Galena Galley Gallinaceous Gamboge Gammut Gaul Gemsbok General Generic Gentile Germander Giallolino Gibbsite Gilbertine Gillyflower Gilthead Gin Gipsey Girasol Gladen Glass Glory Glucin Glutton Go Gobbler Goldenfish Goldfinch Goldylocks Good Gooseberry Goosegrass Granitel Grass Grave Gray Great Grimalkin Groat Grossbeak Grossular Ground Group Grubstreet Guelf Guild Guiltless Gum Gum-tragacanth Gut Gyrfalcon Hackmatack Hal Halcyon Halibut Halloo Hallow Ham Hand Hangnest Happiness Hartwort Hatch Hawkweed He Heart Hebrew Hedgehog Hellebore Hematite Hepatic Hepatite Herbal Herodians Herpes Herring Hild Hippocamp Hippocentaur Hippopotamus Hobnob Hog Hogshead Hold Homonymous Honor Hoodman Hopper Horehound Hornbeam Hote Hotel Hoten Hound Huck Hug Huguenot Humite Huns Hurdle Hurst Hydra Hydragogue Hyperstene Hypogeum Iceblink Iconoclast Iconolater Idea Ignominy Ilex Illuminati Immortalize Impannel Impanneled Impanneling Implicitly Imposition In Inca Incense Indenture India Indian Indiscretion Indistinction Indorse Indorsement Indorser Industriously Infernal Ingraft Initial Inlistment Innominable Innominate Innuendo Inscribe Inscription Insect Iodin Ionic Iridium Ironwood Ironwork Ish It Jack Jacobin Jambee Japan Jasmin Jaspachate Jaundice Jehovah Jewel Jewry Jews-ear Jilt Johannes Jove Jowler Jujub July-flower Junior Juniper Kalmia Kickshaw Kidney-bean Kite Knotgrass Kyanite Label Lamdoidal Lamprey Lane Larch Last Lateran Leather-seller Legion Lend Length Leonine Let Liberality Lichen List Lithophyte Liverwort Lizard Loch Locust Lode-stone Lofty Loggats Loosestrife Lowe Lumbrical Ly Mac Macao Macauco Macaw Macle Madreporite Magazine Magistrature Mahometan Maki Malachite Malacolite Malicious Malmsey Mammoth Manakin Mandatary Mandlestone Mangle Mangrove Maranon Marble Marcasite Marigold Mark Marksman Marmot Maroon Marshal Martlet Masticot Mateless Matriculate Matriculation Matter May-dew Meander Measles Melocotone Melody Melon Memorial Mention Mentioned Mercury Meridian Mesocolon Mesotype Metagrammatism Metalloid Metaphor Metaphysics Meteor Metonymy Metropolis Misapply Miscall Mischievousness Misconception Misdemeanor Misname Misnamed Misnaming Misnomer Mispronounce Mistitle Mistitled Misunderstanding Mithridate Mockeson Mogul Mohair Mohammedan Mohawk Mommery Monarchy Money Monkey Monochord Monogram Monome Monomial Monstrosity Monteth Moon Moose Moppet Mortar Moth Mother Motto Mouse Mow Mule Multinomial Mummy Mund Mushroom Musk Musket Muskmelon Musmon Myrmidon Name Named Nameless Namely Namer Namesake Narwal Neophyte Nickname Nicknamed Nicknaming Nicolaitan Nobility Nomancy Nomenclator Nomenclature Nomial Nominal Nominally Nominate Nominated Nominately Nominating Nomination Nominative Nominee Nope Nosologist Nosology Noun Number Numeration Nuncupative Nuncupatory Nunnation Nut-hatch Nymph Nympha Oak Obbligato Obloquy Ocra Odious Oil Old-wife Oliban Omega Ominous Onomancy Onomantic Onomatope Opodeldoc Opossum Opprobrious Orange Organ-stop Organography Orrery Orthoceratite Osmium Osteocol Ostracism Ostrich Otter Overname Owe Ox Oxygen Oyster Pagodite Palm Palm-tree Panel Pantheist Panther Paper Parliament Paronymous Parrot Part Partnership Partridge Pasquin Patron Patronymic Payee Peacock Peal Pederero Peg Pelisse Pellitory Pennyweight Pentacrostic Pentadactyl Pericarp Peridot Petalism Petong Phalanx Phalarope Pharaon Pharos Phlogiston Phonolite Pica Pie Pigmy Pike Pilot-fish Pimpinel Pinchbeck Pine Pipe Pippin Pissabed Pitch Pitchpipe Placard Planet Planetary Plaster Pleasure Plinth Plover Plumule Pock Poet Poison-tree Poke-weed Poll Poller Polygonum Polymorph Polynome Polynomial Polyonomous Polyonomy Polypier Polypus Pompousness Pond Pongo Porism Porpess Porphyry Post Posting Potash Potassa Potassium Pottern-ore Praise Prenomen Prenominate Prenomination Prepossession Prickle-back Prince Proclaim Profanation Profane Profanely Profaneness Progress Pronoun Proper Propound Proscribe Prosecute Protestant Protocol Proverb Province Prow Pseudo-tinea Psoas Publicly Puceron Pug Pun Puppy Purfile Purge Puritan Puss Pyroxene Quadrinomial Quahaug Quail Quaker Quarter Quince Quotation Quote Quoted Rad Ragstone Rampion Raspberry Rat Rawhead Ray Read Ready Rebus Recite Recollect Red-bird Red-chalk Redbreast Reed Register Reindeer Remembrancer Renard Renounce Reputation Resistibility Return Rice-bird Richness Rick Right-hand Rightly Ringleader River River-dragon Rock-ruby Rock-salt Rockless Rogue Roll Roman Romanzovite Roof Rook Rope Roster Roundhead Roundrobin Ruddle Ruff Rug Rumbud Run Runnet Russeting Sabbath Sack Sacred Saddle Sahlite Sail Salamander Salinous Sameness Sanctify Sanctuary Sanded Sannah Sarcocol Sardonyx Sargus Satire Saussurite Savage Saw-pit Sawyer Scammony Scapolite Scapular Schelium Sciroc Sconce Scribe Scroll Scurff Scythian Sea-ape Sea-coal Sea-hen Sea-moss Sea-needle Sea-nettle Sea-owl Sea-pye Sea-scorpion Sea-weed Sea-wolf Seal Season Seek Semi-metal Senate Septaria Set Setaceous Severally Shaker Shammy Shamrock She Shelter Shend Shilling Shin Shire Shorl Shroud Shudder Siberian Sickliness Sig Sigh Sign Signature Signer Sillimanite Silure Silurus Silvan Similor Singularity Sippet Siskin Skink Skunk Slander Slandered Sleek Slickensides Slut Smart-weed Smelt Smith Snake Sol Sole Solid Sordawalite Sorrel Sound Space Spar Spatterdashes Spatula Spaw Spear-grass Spear-wort Specifical Specified Specify Specious Spell Sperm Spider Spiral Spodumene Spoon-bill Springer Spruce Spurre Spy-glass Stall Stamp Stand Star-fish Starboard Start Stater Station Stead Steeple Steer Stellite Stelochite Stem Step-son Still Stoke Stout Stow Strahlstein Strong Strontian Style Styled Subscribe Subscribed Subscriber Subscribing Subscription Subsignation Substantive Substantively Succotash Sucker Sugar Summons Sunfish Superscribe Suppress Suraddition Surmullet Surmulot Surname Surnamed Surnaming Swallow-fly Swash Swear Sweep-sop Sweet-rush Sweet-william Sweeten Swine-stone Sword-fish Sycamore Sycite Synonym Synonymist Tadorna Tail Tambor Tan Tanistry Tannin Tarantula Tea-tree Tear Teek Telestic Tempest Temple Term Terminator Tern Terrapin Terrible Testament Tetaug Tetter Thammuz Thankful Theater Their Theme Theriac These Theurgy Thistle Thorn Thorough-wort Thorp Threaten Three-petaled Thyite Tiddle Tiercel Tiger-shell Tin Title Titled Titleless Titular Toadeater Toast Toasted Tobacco Tobacco-pipe Ton Toothwort Topan Topaz Tor Torch-thistle Tormentil Torrent Tory Towing-path Towser Traditor Transfer Trap Tree Trefoil Triptote Trivial Trochil Trumpet-shell Tucker Tun Tuner Tungsten Turkey Turky Turmalin Turmeric Turnsole Turnstone Turtle Tutenag Two-valved Typhus Under Understand Underwrite Underwriter Unexpressed Unheard Unicorn Universe Univocation Unmentioned Unnamed Urchin Uru Use Vain Vampire Vapor Varec Varioloid Various Vavasor Veda Velvet Venus Vermil Vervels Vetch Vetchling Vibrion Viceroy Victuals Videlicet Villan Villanize Vishnu Vitriol Viz Vizier Voider W Wagel Wall-wort Walnut Waltron Wapentac Wapentake Wapper Warbler Warrant Water Water-elephant Water-fox Waver Way-bread Weal Wealsman Weard Weaver Weed Welsh Wernerite Wert Whale Wharf Wheat-ear Wheel Where Wherry Whewer Whin-stone Whippowil Whisky Whistle-fish White-honeysuckle White-land Whitewood Whitlow-grass Whitsul Who Wi Wig Wild Willow-weed Wincopipe Wind Wit With-vine With-wine Wold Wolverene Wolverin Wood-bind Wood-bine Wood-cockshell Wood-mote Wood-spite Wood-wash Woodchuk Woolly-pastinum World Worm Worsted Woundwort Wrack Wrass Wrasse Writ Xanthogene Yaw Yaws Ycleped Yeoman Yolk Yule Zapote Zarnich Zea Zechin Zeolite Zigzag

 

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