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71Westwater — This unusual surname is of medieval Scottish origin, and is either a topographical name from residence by the river Westwater in Forfarshire, or Westwater, an affluent of the river Lyne in Peebleshire. Alternatively, the name may be locational… …
72Wisby — This interesting surname is of Old Norse origin, and is a locational name from Whisby in Lincolnshire, deriving from the Old Norse personal name Hvitr , plus byr settlement, hence Hvitr s byr . The placename appears as Wizebi in the Domesday Book …
73PLUMBATORES — dicti sunt, qui plumbeas bullas Pontificum diplomatis appendunt, Vestr. Octavianus, Introduct. in Rom. aul. act. l. 1. c. 3. et ex co Herm. Hugo de prim. scrib. orig. c. 31. p. 192. Quid Bulla proprie, notum: hinc ad diplomata Imperatorum, ab… …
74SARACENI — populi Arabiae, Agareni, et Ismaelitae quoque dicti, quod ab Agare et Ismaele descenderint: quamvis a Chasluim, uno ex Caini posteris, originem illorum quidam arcessant. A voce Arabica, quae vagum et latronem denotat. Saeculô 5. primum… …
75Vestris, Auguste — (1760 1842) dancer The son of the italian dancer Gaetano Vestris and the French dancer Marie Allard (Vestr Allard), Marie Jean Augustin Vestris or Auguste Vestris, as he is known, was born in Paris, where he made his early debut at the… …
76Montesquieu-Volvestre — Original name in latin Montesquieu Volvestre Name in other language Montesk e Vol vestr, Montesquieu, Montesquieu Volvestre, Montesquiu de Bolbestra, Montesquiu de Bolbstra, Montesquiu de Volvestre, Montesquiu de Volvstre, meng tai si ji e wo er… …
77Westen — Sm std. (11. Jh.), mhd. westen m./n., ahd. westan m./n. Stammwort Ursprünglich Richtungsadverb, wie as. westan, afr. west n., ae. westan, anord. vestan. Die Kurzform West taucht in der älteren Sprache nur in Zusammensetzungen auf (Westfalen),… …
78west — O.E. west in or toward the west, from P.Gmc. *wes t (Cf. O.N. vestr, O.Fris., M.Du., Du. west, O.H.G. west, only in compounds, Ger. west), from PIE *wes (source of Gk. hesperos, L. vesper evening, west ), perhaps an enlarged form of root *we to… …
79vestry — UK [ˈvestrɪ] / US noun [countable] Word forms vestry : singular vestry plural vestries a room in a church used for storing things …
80west — [[t]wɛst[/t]] n. 1) geo naut. a cardinal point of the compass, 90° to the left of north Abbr.: W 2) geo the direction in which this point lies 3) (often cap.) a region or territory situated in this direction 4) the West a) the western part of the …
