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  • 61Maw — This interesting and unusual name has three possible origins, the first of which is Anglo Saxon, and is from the Old English pre 7th Century personal name Mawa , recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Mauua and in 1199 as Mawe . The personal… …

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  • 62Mawditt — Recorded in several forms including Maud, Maude, Mawd, the diminutives Maudett and Mauditt, Mawditt and the patronymics Maudson and Mawson, this is an English medieval surname. It is a metronymic form of the female given name Maw , itself having… …

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  • 63Mosen — Recorded in many spelling forms including Maud, Maude, Mawd, and the patronymics Mosan, Mosen, Mossen, Mowson, Maudson and Mawson, this is an English medieval surname. It is a metronymic form of the female given name Maw , itself having four… …

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  • 64Mowson — Recorded in many spelling forms including Maud, Maude, Mawd, and the patronymics Mosan, Mosen, Mossen, Mowson, Maudson and Mawson, this is an English medieval surname. It is a metronymic form of the female given name Maw , itself having four… …

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  • 65Red-billed Chough — Adult of subspecies P. p. barbarus on La Palma, Canary Islands Conservation status …

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  • 66Black-throated Loon — Conservation status Least Concern ( …

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  • 67Inch —    INCH, a parish, in the county of Wigton, 2½ miles (E.) from Stranraer; containing, with the hamlets of Aird, Cairnryan, and Lochans, 2950 inhabitants. This place, which is of great antiquity, and distinguished for its lochs, appears to have… …

    A Topographical dictionary of Scotland

  • 68Mawby — This surname, with variant spellings Mawbey, Maby, Mauby, Mowby, and Mawbee, is of Anglo Saxon origin, and is locational from one of the estimated seven to ten thousand villages and hamlets that have now disappeared from the maps in Britain. The… …

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  • 69GULL — (Heb. שַׁחַף; AV cuckow, JPS sea mew ), bird mentioned in the Bible as prohibited as food (Lev. 11:16; Deut. 14:15), the Hebrew name means thin or swift of movement and, on the basis of its rendering as λάρος in the Septuagint, refers to the gull …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism

  • 70Cob — Cob, n. [Cf. AS. cop, copp, head, top, D. kop, G. kopf, kuppe, LL. cuppa cup (cf. E. brainpan), and also W. cob tuft, spider, cop, copa, top, summit, cobio to thump. Cf. {Cop} top, {Cup}, n.] 1. The top or head of anything. [Obs.] W. Gifford.… …

    The Collaborative International Dictionary of English