NAKEDNESS. 12 NAME.

a 1440 Found. St. Bartholomew s (E.E.T.S.) 40 All thyng i Tales 84 He nakend |>e
tane of his Icgis. c 1440 Gte t Nam, variant of MNAM, mina. Obs.
worldly [he] hadde forsake for the loue of criste, nakidly ^fw. Ixiv. 277 (Harl. MS.), of Do and nakyn ]K of all )>i

1377 LANGL. P. PI. B. vi. 241 Mathew .. mouthed thise

askapynge the wrake of this worlde. 1595 DANIEL Civ. Clothing. 1483 Cat/i. ngl. 248/1 A To Nakyn, nuiiare. wordes, That scruits ticqtiam had a nam.
Wars i. Ixxx, This, .dazeleth all their clearest sighted eies, b. To strip or deprive one <y something. Nam, pledge : see NAAM.
That they see not how nakedly they lie. 121619 FLETCHER 25 Therfore j haue
Lyf Manhode of NIM v Obs.
Mad Lover \. i, How have you borne yourself, how nakedly
c 1430 Pilgr.
wrethe in nakenen me of my right.
herte whan ye
i. xli. (1869)
Nam, pa. t. .

myn . .

Namable, variant of NAMEABLE a.

Laid your soul open. 1684 R. WALLER Nat. Exper. Pref. 2. To lay bare ; to reveal or disclose.
Truth, through the fine Web sometimes seems so plain and
. .

a 1300 Cursor KI. 27099 Alle werld es nackind forwit . .

Naman, -mon, variants of NO-MAN, no one.
that some might conclude, She was Nakedly Dis Na-mandly, adv. In 4 nom-. [Cf. MDu.
|>is

lively,
cristis 1382 \VvcLiF Ecclus, xix. 8 If ther is to thee
ei. t
covered. 1755 BURKE Vind. Nat. Soc. Wks. I. 71 Things Isa. xxii. 6 And Elam toe
which we pass by in their common which shock
dress, yet gilte, wile thou not nakenen. namende-, nanwndelike, G. namentlich. } Namely.
an arewe caas, and the target naknide the wal. Cursor M. 27282 (Fairf.) In spiring prest loke bou
1896 Daily News
. . c 1375
us when they are nakedly represented.
5 Nov. 9/2 A. .man of about 30 years of age was indicted Hence f Na
kening vbl. sb. 06s. be sleye..in bakin pj n g ls nomandeli \Cott. namly] bat is
1382 WVCLIF Ecdus. xi. 29 In theende of a man [there is]
for nakedly exposing himself in a public place, gaine kind in leccheri.

fb. \Vithoutmeansofdefence. Obs. rare.

ful nakenyng of the werkis of hym. 1483 Catli. A ngl. 248/2 Nama tion. rare~. [ad. med.L. namation-em,
A Nakynynge, midacio. namare, OE. NAAM.]
1562 PILKINGTON Expos. NehemiaJi (1585) 64 Good men
{. f. tiiint (See quot.)
may also learne here not.. to goe nakedlie without weapon, Naker (n^ -kaj), rf. 1 Now only Hist. Also 1706 PHILLIPS (ed. Kersey), Natttation, (Law-Term) a dis
to yeald them selues into their enemies hands. 1632 LITH- 4-5 nakere, nak(e)ryn, 5 nakyr, 9 uakir.
-<;.//.
training, or taking a Distress In Scotland, it is taken fur
:

cow Trav. vin. 362 Rash fellowes.. who will nakedly hazard Cf. NACOKNE and NAQUAIKE. [a. OF. nacre, na- impounding. [Hence in later Diets.]
themselues in knowne perrils, without Ordonance. = It. nacchera, med.L. Also 8 naym-, 9
quere, na.ka.ire, nacaire, etc.
Naiuaycush.
(na:-mkoj).
4. Barely, poorly, imperfectly slightly. ? Obs. ; namacush. [American Indian Cree numakoos,
in
nach-,nacara, nacaria, med.Gr. avaimpa., ad. Arab.
;

1589 COOPER Admon. 120 They. .haue handled them so

Ojibway namegoss."\ The great lake trout (Salve-
coldely, nakedly, and vnperfectly, that many haue bene i.(&, Pers. s.Ui, naqara(h). In English the word
grieued to heare them. 1634-5 BHERETON Trav. (Chetham
linns namaycitsh) of N. America.
Soc.) 156 My Lord of Kiluare, who passed through them seems to have had only real currency in the 1785 PENNANT Arcl. Zool. II. Suppl. 139 Naymacu^h.
nakedly attended, a 1682 SIR T. BROWNE Tracts (1683) 6 1
4th cent.] kettle-drum. A Inhabits the lakes of Hudson s Bay. 1829 RICHARDSON
Fauna. Bar. A mer. III. 179 The namaycush is the tyrant
The Reader, unacquainted with such Vegetables, or out 13. E. E, Allit.
. P. B. 1413 Ay nakeryn noyse, notes
GOODE A mer. Fisli 468 The
(
of the lakes. 1888 G. B.
nakedly knowing their natures. of pipes, Tymbres & tabornes tulket among, a 1352 MINOT
amateur confound the namaycush with the
likely to
Nakedness (nt~ kednu$), [f.N.vKEDa. + -NESS.] Poems iv. 80 pe princes. .Gert nakers strike and trumpes
Siscowet. 1892
is
SHIELD Amer. Game Fishes 238 The
1. The state or condition of being unclothed or blaw. c 1386 CHAUCER Knight s T. 1653 Pypes, trompes,
nakers, and clariounes. c 1400 MAUNDEV. (Roxb.) xxxi. 138 namaycush reaches its greatest perfection in the Northern
destitute of clothing. Alsotrattsf. a naked person. of Lakes Huron and Michigan.
per es herd noyse as it ware of trumppes and tawburnez
parts
c 1000 /ELFRIC Horn. I. 392 On hungre on Surstej-.on and nakers. a 1440 Sir Dcgrev. 1085 With trompe and Namby-pamby (na;-mbi|pa;-mbi), a. and sb.
cyle, & on na:cednysse. Gen. ix, 23 Swa J?et hi^ ne with nakere And the scalmuse clere. fanciful formation on the name of Ambrose
jesawon heora fa?der na,-cedmsse. c 1386 CHAUCER Clerk s
|

of the Norman A [A
1819 SCOTT Ivan/toe xxx, flourish
T. 810 To yow broghte I noght elles. .But feyth and naked
trumpets, .mingled with the deep and hollow clang of the Philips (died 1749), author of pastorals ridiculed
nesse and maydenhede. 121425 Cursor J/. 23089 (Trin.), nakers. 1891 Cornli. Mag. May 450 Everyroad.. resounded by Carey and Pope.
Bi nakudnes whenne I toke harm wib clobing }e made me with nakir and trumpet. 1726 CAREY (title) Namby Pamby. Ibid. 29 So the
warm. 1526 PHgr. Per/. (W. de W. 1531) 8 Where shall Nurses get by Heart Namby Pamby s Little Rhimes. 1733
be no sycknes, no necessite nor nakednes. 157^3 L. LLOYD
Hence fHVker v. intr., to beat upon nakers.
c 1400 Land Troy Bk. 4699 Thei nakered, piped and blew,
POPE Dune. ill.
319 Beneath his reign shall . .
Namby
.Marrow of Hist. (1653) 39 The women. ., lifting up their Pamby A-e P s] be prefer d for Wit.]
Vnto that the Cokkes crew. \ed. i,
cloaths, shewing their nakedness. 1617 MORYSON Itin. in. A. Of style, compositions, actions, etc.
172 A black vaile,. .through which the nakednesse of their t Naier, sb.- Obs. rare [f.
NAKE v. + -EK 1 .] -". adj. 1. :

shoulders.. may be scene. 1667 MILTON P. L. x. 217 As One who makes naked. Weakly sentimental, insipidly pretty, affectedly or
Father of his Familie he clad Tail nakedness with Skins of c 1440 Promp. Parv. 351/1 Nakare, or he bat spoylythe childishly simple.
Beasts. 1718 PKIOR Pallas fy Venus 16 Thou to be strong men of clothys, denudator. 1745 W. AYRE Mem. Pope II. 90 He us d to write Verses
must put off every dress Thy only armour is thy naked on Infants, in a strange Stile, which Dean Swift calls the
;
Naker, obs. form of NACRE.
ness. 1788 GIBBON Dec/. $ F. xliv. IV. 347 He concealed Namby Pamby Stile. 1791 BOSWELL Johnson I. 97 At
his nakedness with a linen towel. 1855 TENNYSON Rlaud \. t Na kerer. Obs. Also 4 nakarer. [f.
NAKER a very advanced age he condescended to trifle in namby
x. i, Grimy nakedness dragging his trucks And laying his sb.
1
+ -ER l. ] A performer upon the naker. Pamby rhymes. 1793 W. ROBERTS Looker-on No. 84 (1794)
trains in a poison d gloom. 1885 Pall Mall G. 20 May r
3/1 1310-11.1/5. Cott.A eroc.\i\i. If. 87 b, RogeroIeTroumpour, III. 351 Sweet smirking troops, In coats of green, and
The fair nakednesses who look down unabashed upon the
Janiuo le Nakerer, Menestrallis Regis. (11377 m Houseli. namby pamby pride. 1823 Edin. Rev. XXXIX. 73 Too
well-dressed crowd. Ord. (1790) 4 Mynstrelles Nakerers. c 1400 Siege Jeru-
I many of these namby-pamby lyrics have still been allowed
b. Absence of cover or concealment ; the state \ saletii 852 (E.E.T.S.) With dynnyng of pipis, (?e nakerer to remain. 1844 THACKERAY Little Trav. \. Wks. 1869
of a thing when not cloaked or disguised in any noyse. XXII. 181 Keyser has dwindled down into namby-pamby
Nake tte. 1882 Miss BKADDON bit. Royal III. x. 191 He
way a feature requiring to be kept concealed.
;
t Obs. rare. [Of obscure origin.]
ad just
;rettiness.that
i; small namby-pamby air which would suit
1599 SHAKS. Much Ado iv. I. 177 Why seek st thou then to Some precious stone. Pauline s faint-hearted lover.
couer with excuse, That which appeares in proper naked c 1460 Emare 94 Of crapowtes and nakette As thykke ar absol. 1874 L. STEPHEN Hours in Library (1892) II. ii.
nesse? 1661 MARVELL Corr. Wks. (Grosart) II. 66, I would they sette. Ibid. 142 Wyth crapawtes and Tbykke
nakette, 64 That unlucky taste for the namby-pamby by which
not tell you any tales, because there are nakednesses which of stones ar they sette. Wordsworth annoyed his contemporaries.
it becomes us to cover if it be possible. 1768 STERNE Sent. Nakhoda (na Forms 7 uocheda,
II k<Ma).
:
2. Of persons: Inclined to weak sentimentality,
Journ.) Passport, I could wish.. to spy the nakedness of
their hearts. 1820 SHELLEY Liberty xvi, Till in the naked nockhoda, nohuda, nucquedah, nokayday, affected daintiness, or childish simplicity ; of a
ness of false and true They stand before their Lord. 1885 nockado necoda, nahoda, nacoda, 9 naco-
; weak or trifling character.
Manch. Exam. 30 Dec. /3 None of us have as yet gone to A
the length of avowing this design in all its nakedness.
dah, nakouda, nakhoda, nakhuda. [a. Urdu 1774 Wcstm. Mag. II. 145 namby-pamby Duke. 1774
T. DAVIES in J. Granger s Lett. (1805) 60 Certain namby-
C. Openness to attack ; weakness, rare. (Persian) Ijili nakhoda, nakhuda,i.& tidw boat, were
pamby people never to be satisfied. 1840 THACKERAY
a 1591 H. SMITH Serm. (1866) II. 40 It grieves me., to dis ship + IjJ* khuda master.] The captain or master Paris Sk.-bk. (1869) 47 The namby-pamby mystical German
cover the nakedness of my countrymen. 1611 BIBLE Gen. school [of painters]. 1848 Van. Fair xlii, She was a
of an Indian boat or vessel.
xlii. 9 To see the nakednes of the land you are come. namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature. 1883 Fortn.
1605 SARIS in Purchas Pilgrims I. iv. 385 The Nockhoda
2. Destitution bareness, poverty. Rev. i Sept. 384 An amount of curious facts which namby-
;
of the luncke alledged many rich parcells taken. 1611 travellers hesitate to
1570-6 LAMBARDE Peramb. Kent (1826) 133 By decay of MIDDLETON ibid. I. in. 263 The Nohudas and Merchants pamby tell.

the haven.. it was brought in manner to miserable naked

in jjreat feare of losse of their ship and goods. 1663 H.
B. sb. 1. That which is marked by affected
nesse and decay. 1631 WEEVER Anc. Funeral Mon. 315 and feeble sentimentality; a composi
COGAN tr. Pittto s Trav. xiii. 42 The three Necodas of the prettiness
This penury, nakednesse, and abiection. 1642 MILTON Afiot.
Junks, so are the commanders of them called in that country. tion of this kind.
Sweet. Wks. 1851 III. 310 The lofty nakednesse of your 1802 JAMES Milit. Diet., Nakouda. 1834 A. PRINSEP Baboo
Latinizing Barbarian. 1742 FIELDING J. Andrews \\. ii,
a 1764 LLOYD Cobbler of Cripplegate, While namby-pamby
II. xii. 240 (Stf.), He laughed and told me I should see the
He.. discovered the nakedness of his pockets. 1754 PITT thus you scribble. 1801 in Spirit Pub. Jrnls. V. 284 An
Lett, to Nephew iv. 22 Exposing the nakedness and empti
Nakhoda m
the evening. 1887 MRS. D. Dale S. Australia ode which he has just composed in praise of Inanity, or
244 The proas are owned by Malays, each one commanded Namby Pamby. 1814 T. L. PEACOCK Wks. (1875) III. 129
ness of the mind. 1853 KANE Grinnell Exp. xxix. (1856)
by a head man or nacodah. Mr. W. R. Spenser, a writer of fantastical namby-pambies.
251 It is this nakedness of resources.. that makes our posi
tion one of bitterness. 1873 HAMERTON Intell. Life m. iv.
Nakin, -kyn, variants of NO-KIN. 1838 MACAULAY Sir W. Temple Ess. (ed. Montague) II. 260
95 The result would be simple intellectual nakedness. t Na king, Obs. rare-", NAKE v.
vbl. sb.
[f.
Passages in which raillery and tenderness are mixed in a
b. Bareness due to absence of vegetation, orna + -INS 1.] The action of making naked. very engaging namby-pamby. 1894 SALA Things I have
seen II. xiv. 135 The words in the songs. .were not always
c 1440 Promp. Parv. 351/1 Nakynge, or nakydnesse (or
ment, or other accessories. sickly namby-pamby.
I 75 JOHNSON Rambler No. 80 F 4 The nakedness and stryppyng), nudacio, dcnitdacio. 2. A namby-pambyperson.
asperity of the wintry world. 1821 SHELLEY Adonais xlix, Nakquayre NAQUAIRE. : see
Athenxum 17 Oct. 498/1 He is excellent.. on Hay-
1885
Where, .fragrant copses dress The bones of Desolation s Nakre, obs. form of NACRE. don passim; about the namby-pambies of the time he
nakedness. 1859 JEPHSON Brittany viii, 107 The broken
arches, .and desolate nakedness of the cathedral. Nal, obs. form of AWL. writes as becomes the author of the Book of Snobs .

3. Freedom from unnecessary ornament or re Nald(e, would not see NILL : v. Hence Na mby-pa mbical a. of a namby- ,

finement simplicity, rare. Hale, in phr. at (the) or atte nale : see ALE 2. pamby nature ; Na mby-pa mbics, namby-pamby
writing ; Na mby-pa mbiiiess, weak sentimen
;

1617 MORYSON Itin. iv. iv. iii. 379 No people of Europe. . t Nall(e, obs. forms of AWL.
vseth lesse Ceremonyes, . doing all such thinges without any
.
tality ;
Na mby-pa znby v., to talk namby-pamby
ostentation, yea with great simplicity and nakednes. 1711 to (one) Na mby-pa inbyish somewhat
HEAKNE Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 173 Much admiring the
Simplicity and Nakedness of y Style. 171 1 ADDISON Spect.
No. 85 P 4 Nature in her Simplicity and Nakedness.
pynnes.
l/yiiiii.^. fu*i
1496 Fysshynge
*tyv w
Ty:*^ \LQOJJ 14 ouuniaKcrs
m vi. Angle
nalles in especyall the beste for grete fysshe. 1330 PALSCR.
"
namby-pamby.
;

1757 MRS. GRIFFITH Lett. Henry fy Frances (1767) III. 130,

I had never written Namby Pambicks in my Life.
.,

4. Absence of hairs or scales. 247/1 Nail for a souter, alesnc. 1564 [see AWL], 1573 1761
TUSSER Husb. (1878) 36 Hole bridle and saddle, whit lether WESLEY Wks. (1872) XII. 122 Omit one or two [hymnsj...
1851 CARPENTER Man. Phys. (ed.a) 397 This order . . is further and nail. 1632 [see AWL]. They are namby-pambycal. 1809-12 Miss EDGEWORTH
distinguished .. by the softness and nakedness of the skin. atlrib. and Comb. 1530 PALSGR. 247/1 Nail maker, faiscvr Absentee xvi, A lady of quality, .sends me. .her waiting
1873 MIVAKT Elem. Anat. vii. 243 In Batrachians..we find daicsnes. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny xi. xxxvii. I. 331 Like a gentlewoman to namby-pamby me. 1832 Examiner 517/1
a nakedness of skin greater even than in man. The words .. are namby-pambyish.
shomakers Nail blade. 1890 SAINTSBURY
t Na ken, v. Obs. Forms : 3 nacn(en), 4-5 t Nam, am not see and BE v. A. I. i. NE L Hist. Elizab. Lit. iv. 138 The sweetness without namby-
had
:

pambyness which Daniel at constant command.

nakn(en); 4 nacken, nakkin, nakin, 4-5
-in,
nakyn, naken. [app. naken NAKE a. + -EN 5.]
f,
1. trans. To strip (a person) naked to divest
c 8*5 Vesp. Psalter cxviii. 60 S=aru ic earn neam je- &
droefed. c 950 Lindisf. Gasp. Matt. iii. 1 1 His Jesceoe nam Na-mby-pa-nibyism. [f. prec. + -ISM.]
;
IRtishw. naem] ic wyroe beara. c 1200 ORMIN 10281 Namm \Veak or insipid sentimentality an instance of this. ;

of clothing (or armour) to lay (part of the body)

I nohht Godess sune. c 1205 LAY. 14136 Nairn [c 1275 nam] 1834 Taifs Mag. I 206/2 The namby-pamby isms of the
;
ich naeuere bute care, a 1240 l/reisitn in O.E. Horn. 1. 185 4
Book of Beauty . 1842 MRS. BROWNING Grk. Ckr. Poets
bare. Also rejl. Hwi nam ich in bin earmes. c 1305 Edmund Con/. 61 in (1863) 187 The concentrate essence of namby-pamby ism. 1867
a 1240 Wohunge in O.E. Horn. I. 283 Anu nacnesmonrm E.E.P. (1862) 72 Namjc bi felawe, quab bis child. 1390 HATTON Tallants of Barton iii, I hate to see such namby*
lef. a 1300 Cursor M. 4173 pai hent ioseph. .And nackend GOWER Con/. I. 67 Seie I noght That I nam somdel for pambyism.
him and Kesthim dun. a. 1330$. Anastasia 140 in Horstm.
Altengl. Leg. (1881) 27 pe Emperoure..Gert nakkin al J>am
to wyte. c 1450 LOVELICH Grail xxxviii. 472 In non wyse
nam I not so. 1575 GASCOIGNE Flowers Wks. 64, I nam . .
Name (n^im), sb. Forms: a. i nama, 2-
foure in fere. 1382 WYCLIF i Chron. x. 9 Whanne thei the wisest wight of all. 1576 Stale Ct. (Arb.) 50, 1 n am name, (5 Sc. nayme), 2-5 nam, (5 naam). $, i

haden spuylid hym. .and nakenyd fro arm vs. c 1440 Alph. a man, as some do tbinke I am. noma, 2 nome. [OE. namat npma masc.
 NAME. 13 NAME.
OFris. nama, noma, OS. namo (MDu. name, Gen. f. Ex. 3497 Tac 3u nogt
min name. 1382 in idel
1382 Pro-. , xxii. i Better is a
naem, Du. naaiii), OHG. namo (MHG. and G. WYCLIF Acts xxvi. 9 Ajens the name of Jhesu Nazarene nchessis.
good name, than mauve
note, A good name menny
c 1430 Jlalvts Bk. 42
for to. .do
name), Goth, namo; the original gender and the manye contrarie thingis. 1:1430 LYDG. Min. folde ys more worthe then
Poems (Percy Soc.) 237 Condigne laude nor golde. 1500-20 DLNBAK Poems
final of the stem (see NEMN z>.)
is retained in Youe to this name ther can no tonge telle.comendacioun,
Ixxxii. 70 Keip ordour..That e
5 may gelt anc bcttii name
1526 Pilgr.
ON. nafn, namn neut. (Sw. namn, Da. Haz<). Perf.(W. de W. r53i) 219 b, Thy holy name is inuocate &
named vpon vs. 1560 DAUS tr. Sleidatie s Comm.
Cognate forms occur in all the other Indo-Euro 43 They
gave thankes to God y they should suffer for the glorie of
pean languages, as Skr. naman, Gr. oVo/t, L. his name. 1667 MILTON P. L. in. 412 Hail Son of God,., .

no good name behind. 1738 SWIFT Let. to 1 ope

nomen, Olr. /
(pi. anmann), OS1. /; (Russ. thy Name Shall be the copious matter of my Song. 1738
\V ESLEY Hymn, Thee me adore
imya), etc.] i, Thee we adore Eternal

I. 1. The Name. 1781 COWPER Truth 556 Hisown glorious rightshe

particular combination of sounds em would disclaim, And man might safely trifle with his name.
ployed as the individual designation of a single
person, animal, place, or thing,
1817 SHELLEY Rev. Islam x. xxvii, Our secret pride Has
scorned thee, and thy worship, and thy name.
1850 TFNNY-
U~-
posterity.
7*
he were victorious, he would,
J
.

.bequeath a
"* " *> i\ t/. 1 1 J. .17

grc.it name to
)

a. Eeotmilf fZ [He] scop him Heort naman. Ibid. SON In Mem. xxxvi, We yield all to the name Of
343 Beo
wulf is mmnama. 862 Charter 29 in O. E. Texts Him that made them current coin. blessing C.
(Usually in phr. to get or make (oneself) a
ham oes dennes nama. Ses oSres dennes nama
439 Brocces
4. a. The name
of a person (for name.} A distinguished name a reputation.
samgethryg thing) with
;

a 1000 O. E. Chron. an. 975 Eorla ealdor ba;m was Ead-
weard nama. a 1122 Ibid. (Laud MS.) an. 1118 lohan of
Galtan.. bam wa;s ooer nama Gelasius.
1200 Trin Coll
1382 WYCLIF 2 Saw. viii. 13 Forsothc Dauid made to hym
implication of the individual denoted by it. a name, whanne he turnyde c 1407 LYLKJATE Keas.
ajen.
1382 WYCLII. Rev. iii. 4 Thou hast a fewe names in Sardis, tr AMIS. 5832 This mayde..Hada name and
<

the whiche defouleden not her clothes, a dyde exLtlle

Horn. 91 pat mai ech man understonden be wot wat bk ocneS 1400-50 Alex- lo pleyen at this noble play.
ander 903 pare is na region ne rewme. hot it sail 1509 BARCLAY S/iyt of
bese tweie names betfage and Jerusalem, c 1250 Gen. *
loute.
my name .
Folyi (1874) II. ioi By cruell delynge he must hym Bet
E.t. 232 Name he gaf hire.. ; Issa was hire firste name. 1467-8 Rolls ofParlt. V. 574/2 Eny Acte made for a name. 1535 COVERDALE teph. iii. 20, I uil get you a
the corporation or name of the Duchie of Lancastre.
1320 Sir Iristr. 1216 Marchaund ich haue ben ay Mi t;,,,,,c /y 1^ T7 ~=r
1599 -V " am>:..anionge all people of the earth. 1603 SHAKS. /!/,.
nam is tramtns. 1390 GrOWER Conf. I. i 9I The SHAKS. Hen. ii. iv. 56 By the bane Of that black
"/;; r~"
for M. I.
Name, I
,
73 This new Gouernor ..for a name Now pu
.

Moder there lay, Whos rihte name was Domilde. kinges c

Mward, black Prince of \Vales.
1662 STILLINGFL. Or if. the.. Act Freshly on me: tis
surely for a name. 16
MYRC 138 Then may the fader. .Crysten the chylde 1450 and
jacrj? i, iv. ii u mess this might be
any plea for his ig nor- MILT N / L. xii. 45 They ca.st to build A Citie..And
"" 1
.
g- t
ance, that he had so many great names after him cuilty of
.
themselves a name. 1853 LYTTON My .\orcl\\.
3eue hyt name.
.

1526 Pilgr. Pcrf. (W. de W. 1531) 24 the same. xviii, Tell

Marke therm the citees names & other places in his 1700 DRYDEN Pal. f, Arc. n. 504 There Samson her that 1 am nameless, and will
yet make a name.
mynde. was, with wiser Solomon, And all the mighty names by love 1884
1560 DAUS tr. Sleidanc s Comm. 406 A sonne named Henry W. C. SMITH Kildrostan 48 When you make yourself a
undone. 1781 COWPER Comiersat. 828 Echo learns
.. the seventhof that name.
isgSSHAKS. W. i. iv. Merry politely name, As I am sure you will do.
14 to repeat The praise of names for
Peter Simple, you say your name is ? 1651 HOBOES Leviath. ages obsolete. 1849-50
ALISON Hist. Eur. V. x.\ix. 208 Names since immortalised t d. To bear or carry the name, to have a repu
III. xxxiv. 213 God needeth not to
distinguish his Celestial! in the rolls of fame were., assembled, .at the Tuileries. tation. Obs.
servants by names. 1710 POPE Windsor For.
339 The b. The name (sense i) of a 1470-85 MALORY Arthur xn. ix. 605 There U none that
fam d authors of his ancient name, The windin" Isis and person or group of berelh the name now but ye and
the fruitful Thame. 1776 GIBBON Decl. syr Tristram. 1572
ff f. vi.1. 156 The persons, with implication of all the individuals Schole-house Worn, in Hazl. E. P. P. IV. 138 So
name of Antoninus.. had been communicated by :

they may
to the dissolute Verus.
adoption bearing, or comprehended under, it those having ; ,
be trimmed and fed of the
best, They haue no remorce
1818 SHELLEY Julian 5 S 4 The who beareth the name. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny ix. xiii.
name Of Venice, and its aspect, was the same. a certain name hence, a family, clan, people.
;
I

1897 H. I. 245 ( lurauncestours set more store

by the Sturgeon, and
PORTER in Century Mag. July 357 He would call them 1382 WYCLIF Isa. Ixvi. 22 Asneweheuenus and neweerthe it carried the name above all other fishes.
sometimes by their last names. .so stonde shal }oure sed, and }jure name.
1559 in Fronde
.

Hist. Eng. 11863} VIII. 3 Whose blood they once 7. Without article:
0. (-850 Martyrol. in O. E. Texts 177 His noma \va:s shed, they Repute, reputation, fame,
Maxnnus. 971 Blickl. Horn. 161 paes noma wses Zacharias. lightly never cease killing all that name. 1588 SHAKS. Tit. distinction. Now rare.
c 1175 Lamb. Horn. A. 11. iii. 183 Ah beastly creature, The blot and 1375 I-cg. Rood 124 [He] euill angerd was pat
83 penne ne mihte noht hire sune habbe enemy to <;

bene nome bet him wes ijefen. 01225 our generall name. 1601 All s Well I. iii. 162, 1 am from cristen had name More ban he. 1382 WYCLII Zt ph.
(>i

Leg. Kath.
Nat ich now Ser bi nome ne ich ne cnawe bi cun. a 444 humble, he from honored name. 1667 MILTON P. L. ix. 142 iii.
^king
20 Y shal
}eue 3OU in to name, and in to herying to alle
1300 Since I in one Night freed .. welmgh half Th
K. Horn (Harl. MS.) 214 Wei brouc bou by nome Angelic p
peplis of crthe. c 1430 Hon. G,i. /(V/ 75 in Ha/I. E. P. /
aynsr. Name. 1690 Land. Ga;. No. 2575/3 Three of the Heads of
.

1362 LANGL. P. PI. A. in. 3 The kyng clepet a clerke (I I. 185 Gode name is
golde worthe, my leue childe. t
1477
know not his nome). 1:1420 Chron. Vilod. 687 Now Clans, or Chiefs of a Name, are come in and submitted to CAXTON Jason 33 My desir restith in two singuler thinges
wolly
1781 COUPEK Expost. 170 The favours poured upon
;

telle ?ow forther more be nomes of be founders euerychon. him. that one is for to conquere name in armes.
the Jewish name. 1817 SHELLEY Pr. A than. 1530 PALSCR.
b. In Oxford and 30 Of an i. 247/2 Name, renom. 1597 MORLEY lutrod. Mus. Pref., Not
Cambridge use, in phrases ancestral name the orphan chief. 1849 MACAILAY Hist. so much seeking thereby any name or glorie. 1601 HOLLAND
denoting that the person continues, or ceases, to be Eng. v. I. 547 All the clans hostile to the name of Campbell Pliny I. 419 Yea, and after that, the Fatern wines were in
an actual member of a were set in motion. name and called for. 1605 BACON Adv. Learn, n. xxiii.
college or hall.
. 1779-81 JOHNSON L. P., Shenstone, He continued his name The name (sense i) of a person as mentioned
5. $ 5 Senators that had name and opinion for general wise
in the book ten years, men. 1859 TENNYSON / ivicn 63 He lay as dead And lost to
though he took no degree. 1858 by others with admiration or commendation
Ordinances Univ. Camlir. (1904) 257 His name not ; life and use and name and fame.
having
been kept on the boards of his College. 1860 Oxford Univ. hence, the fame or reputation involved in a well- k- Of (great, etc.) name,
noted, distinguished,
Cal. 140 Provided they have
kept their name on the Books known name. To have one s name up, to be much famous. Now usually with adj.
of some College or Hall for twenty-six Terms.
. .
1860 spoken of. c 1380 WYCLIF ll ts. (tS8o) 2 The firste two
HUGHES Tom Brown at Oxf. xxiv, Drysdale, anticipating [sects] weren
his fate, took his name _
c1320 Sir Tristr. 22 Of a kni^t is bat y mene, His name grete men of name and hauynge. 1415 Pol. Poems (Rolls
off before they sent for him.
it sprong wel wide, c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (.ViiVii 479 II. 126 Lordes of name an hunderde and mo
2. The Bitterly that
particular word or words used to denote Of be bischope be nam ran sa in al be land to and fra. bargayn bowght. a 1548 HALL Chron., Hen. VII 23 b,
any object of thought not considered in, or not a 1425 Cursor M. 12633 (Trin. Fro benne of ihesu sprong 1

,
J-he cytie..conteyned an hundred and
fifty thousand houses
be nome. 1603 SHAKS. Alcas.for M. n. iv. 155 My vnsoild of name. 1577-87 HOLINSIIED Chron. I. 152/1 Of the
possessed of, a purely individual character. To
call names
name, th austeerenesse of my life. 1784 COWPER Task vi. English side, there died two dukes. .with sundrieother men
see CALL v. 1 7 c.
:
ioi Some to the fascination of a name Surrender of name. 1625 BACON Ess., Travel (Arb.)
c 1000 ^ELFRIC Gen. ii. to ^l c libbende judgment 523 Eminent
nyten, swa swa hoodwinked. 1789 Loiterer No. 43. 4 The ill effects of Persons., which are of great Name abroad. 1699 T. BAKKK
Adam hit jecisde, swa ys hys nama. c 1175 Lamb. Horn. possessing an extensive reputation, or as an old English Kfjl. Learning xiii. 160 In this kind Bartolus is of great
115 De king bia icoren to ban be him cuShis noma. c 1250 Phrase expresses it, having one s name up. 1809 MALKIN name; whose Authority is. .valu d.. amongst the Modern
Gen. t, Ex. 222 lie kinnes beste of eroe Gil Bias vm. x. r i When once my name was up for a man
boren,..5or gaf Lawyers. 1782 COWPER Friendship 85 Hence authors of
adam ilc here is name, c 1374 CHAUCER Boeth. in. after the Duke of Lerma s own heart, I had very soon my illustrious name.. Are sadly prone to quarrel. i8i6KEATiNGE
pr. vi.
(1868) 78 If be name of gentilesse be referred to renoun court about me. 1859 TENNYSON Vivien 681 If they find Tra-j. (1817) I. 33 Although the military architect
and clernesse of linage. 1390 GOIVER Conf. I. may be
13 For pride Some stain or blemish in a name of note. one of high name. 1857 CHURCH Misc. Writ. (1890 I. 16
of thilke astat To bere a name of a
prelat. ^1470 HENRY b. It would be difficult,
perhaps, to mention a writer of name
Wallace vm. 472 Nayme off rewill on him he wald tak Of no name, without (a) name, implying who has more [faults].
nayne. 1486 Bk. St.Albans D iij, Nowfoloys the naamysof obscurity and unimportance. 8. One s repute or reputation, etc.;
all manerofhawkys. 1527 TINUALE Doctr. Treat. ri6 That i_6u BIBLE Job xxx. 8 They were children of fooles, yea esp. one s
which is deserved is called (if thou wilt
give him his right
children of base men [marg. men of no name], 1671 AIlL- (good} name.
name) hire or wages. 1560 DAUS tr. Sleidane s Comm. TON Samson 677 Nor do I name of men the common rout,.. a 1300 Cursor Jlf. 28165 For his., welth, his wytt, and his
82 b, This is in dede first original of the name of Protes- Heads without name no more rememberd. 1697 DRYDEN god name, c 1385 CHAUCER L. G. IV. 1811 Lucrcce, Thus
thou shall be ded & also lese T hyn name, c 1450 St. Cutli-
y"

tauntes. 1590 SIR J. SMYTH Disc. Weapons 2b, Their ,*Eneid VI. 1055 These shall then be Towns of mighty Fame ;
1

Ensignes also they will not call by that name, but by the Tho now they lye obscure; and Lands without a Name. bert (Surtees) 102 Gyfe he did, he lost his name.
1500-20
DLNBAR Poems liv. 22 Quhai in felde receawes schame, And
i

name of Colours. 1615 W. LAWSON Country Housciv. Card. \

1821 SHELLEY False Laurel True 7 One of the crowd <5-

(1626) 18 It is hardly possible to misse in thou art without a name. tynisthair his knychtlie name. 1526 Pilgr. Pcrf.^K. de W.
graffing so often,
if your Gardiner be worth his name.
1634 MILTON Camus O. A
famous or notorious person ; one whose 153 i3 Defame hym, that is to saye, take his good
) ".

name from hym. 1596 SHAKS. i Hen. IV, v. iv. 70 Would to

628 He.. would.. shew me name is well known.
simples of a thousand names.
1667 P.L. vi. 174 Unjustly thou deprav st it with the heauen, Thy name in Armes, were now as great as mine.
i6n BIBLE Ezek. xxiii. 10 She became famous [marg. a 1665 BOYLE Occas. Refl. 5 Companies, where sometimes
name Of Servitude. 1712 STEELE Spect. No. 374 F i There
is a Fault, which, tho
name] among women. 1826 DISRAELI Viv. Grey in. vii, he may lose his good Name. 1705 tr. l>osman s Guinea 17
common, wants a Name. 1781 COW Dr. Spix is a most excellent man, a most accurate traveller, If the same Care was taken. .Guinea would soon lose its
PER Retirement 723 Flowers by that name
promiscuously we quite a name. 1842 TENNYSON Ulysses ii, I am become a dreadful mortal Name.
call. 1850 TENNYSON In Mem. cxi, Thus he bore without 1781 COWPER Charity 453 Flavia,
name For always roaming Much have I seen and known.
; . .
most tender of her own good name. 1834 EDWIN Angler M
abuse The grand old name of gentleman.
1873 Act 36 4- 37 0. The reputation of some character or attribute,
Viet. c. 88 22 The offence, by whatever name called, in 297 Daily, hourly came Fresh follow-ers, lured by
ll"<iles\l.

his success and name. 1859-64 TENNYSON Gram/mother

which if committed in England would be perjury. f Also const, with inf., and ellipt.
(quot. 1727). 50,
t b. A title of rank or dignity. Obs. rare, 1300 Cursor M. 17472 Of men bai wan schenschip and
a I love you so well that
your good name is mine, 1874
MANNING Ess. Ser. m. 26 For the fair name of England,
a 1548 HALL Chron., Hen. V 75 b, Deprived of all honores, schame, And of bar leute tint be name. 1303 R. BRUNNK
Ilandl. Synnc 6842 Of large alines men jaue hym name. they are being blotted out of our history.
names, dignities and preheminences whiche he then had.
c 1418 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 245 If hym lust to have a name 9. The mere appellation in contrast or
f C. Gram. noun. Obs.A Of pelour under ipocrasie. 1456 Paston Lett. I. 383 Con- tion to the actual person or thing
opposi
1563-7 BUCHANAN Reform. St. Andros Wks. (S.T.S.) 8 ; reputation with
,

he lawast class is for thayme that suld declin the sideryng the goode nome and fame of trouth. .the which I out correspondence in al name, nomi
1
namis, here of you. CI53O LD. BERNEKS Arth. Lyt. Brit. 281 Ye
fact, f Also
and the verbes actives, passives and anomales.
have the name to be the. .gentyllest of hearte of any lady nally, professedly.
fa. Arith. Denomination. Obs. rare. now lyvynge. 1581 PETTIE tr. Guazzo s Civ. Com: I. (1586) 1381 WYCLIF Ecclus. xxxvii. i Ther is a frend, bi only
1714 CUNN Treat. Fractions 5! The Quote is that part of 42 b, There are diuerse which thinke to get the name of name a frend. Rev. iii. i Thou hast name, that thou
the Answer that is of that Name then reduce the Re and thou
; pleasant conceited fellowes. 1601 HOLLAND Pliny x. Ii. I. lyuest, art deed. 1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 197/1
mainder to the next inferior Name. 297 He would have the name to eat the resemblers of mans
The holy vyrgyne..wente to the sayne for to goo fetche at
II. In pregnant senses, voice. 1625 BACON Ess., Simulation r 2 The ablest Men.,
name somme vytayljes. 1601 SHAKS. All s IVcll v. iii. 309
chiefly originating in haue had.. a name of Certainty, and Veracity. Tis but the shadow of a wife you see,
The name, and not
Biblical uses based 1727 A.
upon Hebrew modes of ex HAMILTON A rw Ace. E. Ind. II. xxxiii. 16 The Name that
pression. It got .. stuck so fast to
it, that none of it would go off at
3. The name (sense i) of God or Christ, with im any Price. 1814 NICHOLSON Country Lass I. Wks. (1897)
41 Sic beauty, and the name o siller, Gart wooers flock. less toone you stint the flame. 1784 COWPER Tiroc. 421
plication of divine nature and power inherent in it. Well he plays his part, Christian m name, and infidel in
t
825 csp. Psalter viii. 2 Dryhten ur, hu wundurlic is noma 1894 Law Times XCVII. 384/1 No profession will lightly
1817 JAS. MILL Brit. India II. v. viii. 661 He well
/
earn for itself the name of a profession of hireling subornees heart.
oin. a 850 Lorica Prayer in O. E. Texts 174 Daelniomende
of perjury. knew, that in the circumstances, .. a pension. .little or
_oeara goda Se renig monn for his noman jr,edoeS.
..alra
b. With a and A fame or reputation of nothing differed from a name. 1851 MAYIIF.W Loud. Lal our
971 Blickl. Horn. 103 His noman we sceolan weorbian mid cutj. name
I. 385 It has the of being eighteen yards. 1867 E.
worduin & mid daedum. ciaoo ORMIN 5342 pa shallt tu a specified kind. Law School, though
O.UINCY in Life Josiah Qitincy 481 The
burrh be name off Crist Ben borrjhenn att tin ende. c 1250 1382 WYCLIF 2 Sam. vii. 9, I made to thee a greet name. in existence .. had but a name to live. 1888 Greens Short
 NAME. 14 NAME.
Hist. viii. 8. 571 The expulsion of the majority of the the name of Achab. 1405 Rolls of Parlt. III. 605/2 To 1896 Brit, f, Far. Bible Sac. Rep. 156 Family Bible. ..With

existing House reduced the Commons to a name.

maner accordez made be our Attournees, or be
fulfill all . . . . . . autograph and name-plate. 1877 W- J ONES Finger-ring
twa of them in oure name. 1444 Ibid. V. 108/2 To sue an 416 *Name rings are common in France. 1870 RUSKIN
III. In prepositional phrases. Action of dette in his owne name. 1523 LD. BERNERS Froiss. Lect. Art ^1875) 148 His Christian name was John Baptist:
10. By name : a. Used with verbs of naming I. 745 Ther was a cry made, in the kynges name, on payne he here painting his "name-Saint.
is 1861 LYTTON & FANE
of dethe [etc.], a 1548 HALL Chron., Hen. YlII(n\i, Sir Tannhauser 37 Four pages. -That held the "name-scrolls of
or calling, or (in later use) simply added to the
Thomas More made a brief oracion in the name of the citee. the listed bards. 1851 -V. Brit. Rev. Nov. 69 The Life of
proper appellation of a person, etc. 1631 GOUGE God s Arrows v. Ded. 406 You
who in the their "Name-sire, sent forth by the Cavendish Society. 1863
9oo CYNEWULF Elene 755 Syndon tu on bam. .be
man MELVILLE BELL Princ. Speech 148 The alphabetic or name-
*

Chron. an. 975

name of the rest were Solliciters in this business. 1686 tr.
Seraphin be naman hateo. a 1000 O. E. Chardin s Trav. Persia 13 The Envoy, having the Grand sound of the letter O. 1816 Miss MITFORD Village Ser. n.
naman men.
pone..hata8 wide cometa be crasftgleawe
Vizier s in the Name of his Highness, return d to
word (1863) 428 That identical black bag, with its "name-tickets.
c 1200 OKMIN 1828 Summ we findenn o be boc Enngell bi 1605 CA.MDEN Rein. 35 An Unomanticall or *Name-wisard
Genoa. 1754 SHERLOCK Disc. (1759) I. i. 2 St. Peter, in the
name nemmnedd. c 1220 Bestiary 38 Dat defte meiden, Name all made answer, Lord, to whom shall we go ?
of lew. 1598 R. HAYDOCKE tr. Lomazzo To Rdr., All the
Marie bi name. 1382 WYCLIF r Sain. xvii. 23 That bastard 1818 CRUISE Digest (ed. 2) II. 397 That the plaintiff could "name-worthy writers of the Arte of Painting. 1879 A. W.
man, Goliath bi name, a 1425 Cursor M. 7370 (Tnn.), Dauid have no remedy at law, either in his own name, or in the WARD Chaitcer 190 Occleve, the only name-worthy poetical
he hette bi his name. 1590 SHAKS. Mids. A v. i. 157 It ,
names of the trustees. 1849 MACAULAY Hist. Eng. vi. II. writer of the reign of Henry IV.
doth befall, That I, one Snowt name) present a wall.
1667 MILTON / L. vn. 536 Wherever .
<by

thus created, for no 17 A speech which the Bishop of Valence,

in the name of the
Galilean clergy, addressed, .to Lewis the Fourteenth. 1891
Name (n?m), z.l Forms I (5e)namian, 2- :

place Is yet distinct by name. 1711

ADDISON Sped. No. 98 Lau) Times Rep. LXIII. 765/1 The defendants were liable name, 6 nay me, .SVr.neame; 4-5 nome. Pa. fpie.
P3 A famous Monk, Thomas Conecte by Name. (11832 as principals, as they had contracted in their own names. 4 y-namyd, 5 inamed, 4 Sc. nammyt, 6 namen.
The last of my
[OE. (ge}namian = OFris. nama, noma, -ia, OS.
SCOTT in Lockhart Life (1900) I. 240 =
d. Under the character or designation of
chargers, .was a high-spirited, .one, byname Daisy.
b. With verbs of calling upon, summoning, (some person or thing). Now rare or Obs. namon, MDu., MHG. namen, (. nama NAME s6.
or in enumeration of 1382 WYCLIF Matt. x. 41 He
that resceyueth a prophete in The usual verb in OE. and ME. is nemnan, nem-
enumerating, or mentioning ;
the name of a prophete. c 1400 MAUNDEV. (1839) xv. 170
individuals.
nen NEM.N.]
Thei brennen his Body in name of Penance. 1464 Rolls of
cgoo Judith 8r Heo. .ongan Sa swe^Ies Weard be naman Parlt. V. 560/1 [They] shall pay..cs in name of a payne.
I. 1. trans. To give a name or names to (per
to call by some name.
nemnan. c 1000 Ags. Gosf. John x. 3 pa sceap ehy- 1467-8 Ibid. 581/2 To have to hir for terme
of hir life, in sons, places, things, etc.) ;

ra5 his stefne, & he nerna his agene sceap be naman. name of her Dower. 1548 HOOPER Declar. Commandm. c 1000 /ELFRIC Gen. ii. 20 Adam ba $enamode ealle nytenu
a 1122 O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 656 Del wa;run be ix. Wks. (1843) 372 To lose his head, in the name of a pain. heora namum. 1382 WYCLIF Eph. iii. 15 The fadir of cure
nam Ithamar biscop of Rofecestre [etc.], a 1300 Cursor 1598 SHAKS. Merry W. ill.
v. 101 To carry mee in the Lord Jhesu Crist, of whom ech fadirheed in heuenes and in
M. 7388 His suns sex,.. All he did bam call be nam. name of foule Cloathes to Datchet-lane. 1611 Wint. T. erthe is named, c 1440 Promp, Parv. 351/1 Namyn, nomine,
Ibid. 12211 Of ilk a letter for to ask, Resune of ilkan in. ii. 61 Which comes to me in name of Fault. 1642 tr. dowmino, cognomino. 1483 Cat/I. Angl. 248/2 To Name;
bi name. 1393 LANGL. P. PI. C. n. 4 A loueliche lady.. Perkins Prof. Bk. iii. 209. 64 To deliver, .the deed unto appellant baptizare. 1535 COVERDALE Luke ii. 2r His
Cam down fro bat caslel and calde me by name, c 1400 the feoffee in the name of seisin of the same land. 1796 name was called lesus, which was named of y* angell, before
Dcstr. Troy 37 Amonge bat menye, to myn hym be nome, SOUTHEY Lett.fr. Spain (1799) 418 These men lay the he was conceaued. 1548-9 Bk. Com. Prayer, Baptism
Homer was holden hajthill of dedis. 1431 in Eng. Gilds people under contribution in the name of alms. 5 b, Then one of them shal name the childe, and dippe
him
(1870) 276 First, y Aldirman schal clepene vpe ij.
men be 1608 SHAKS. Per. in. iii. 13 My gentle babe
e. Indicating the assigned ownership of a thing. in the water.
name. 1606 SHAKS. Tr. r Cr. I. ii. 199 lie tel you them all has not been left Marina, Whom, for she was borne at sea, I haue named so.
1850 Punch XVIII. 91 If a box of cigars
by their names. 1667 MILTON P. L. x. 649 The Creator here in the name of Adam Simpleton ? 1888 Law Times 1667 MILTON P. L. xn. 326 Of the Royal Stock Of David (so
calling forth by name His mightie Angels gave
them several
King). 1735 POPE Donne
I name this Sat. iv. 25 Behold
LXXXV. 120 2 A sum of consols standing in the name of !

charge. 1738 POPE Epil. Sat. II. 10 None but you by there came A thing which Adam had been pos d to name.
Name the guilty lash. 1848 THACKERAY Van. Fair xlii, J. K.,. .deceased. named me so. 1872
f!2. In name with, mentioned in connexion 1819 SHELLEY Cyclops 701 My father
She forgut to send any message of kindness to Lady RUSKIN Eagle s Nest 66 The stars already named and
O Dowd . . ,
and did not mention Glorvina by name. with (one of the other sex). Obs. rare. numbered are as many as we require to hear of.
t c. Used to direct special attention to some 1565-73 Durliam Depos. (Surtees) 256 Being at horde at b. Const, after, from, for (now only U. S.}, to
the said Agnes house, then wedoo, and was in name with
thing mentioned;
Obs. Cf. NAMELY
hence, especially, particularly.
adv. i.
hir. 1575-6 Ibid. 284 She was then in name with one (dial.),
c 1450
t/
LOVELICH Merlin 991 (Kolbing), They.. bad. .that
Francis Castell.
1583 BABINGTON Coininandm. Wee will neuer, named scholde
ibe Aftyr his grant-fadyr. 1535 COVER-
(1590) 370
13. By the name of, called or known by, having,
it

I feare, see the mischiefe of playing, and by

name of Dicing. DALE 2 Gtrw.vii.l3 To humble my people, which is named
1626 BACON Sylva S 666 It is strange, .that Dust helpeth the name of. Now colloq. and U- S. after my name. 1667 MILTON P. L. ll. 579 Cocytus, nam d

the fruitfulness of Trees, and of Vines by name. 1660 1676 Life Father Sarpi in Brent s Counc.
Trent 42 A of lamentation loud Heard on the ruful stream. 1697
SHARROCK Vegetables 27 The seeds of divers Sowbreads, Nephew of his by the name of Maestro Santo. 1725 BERKELEY DRYDEN sEtieid in. 28 Enos, nam d fiom me, the City [11
s. 1871 111.230 A Charter for erecting a College 1800 HELENA WELLS Const. Keville i. 7 Louisa, who
by name the Roman, ..doe the like. call.

d. With know, (a) Individually, (b} By re by the name of St. Paul s College in Bermuda. 1841 had been named for the mother of Mr. Hayman. 1826- [see
A
THACKERAY Sec. Funeral Xapoleon 3 grocer living there FOR prep. 7 c]. 1841 R. I. WILBERFORCE Rutilius f, Lucius
or actually.
pute only ; not personally by the name of Greenacre. 1883 CABLE Old Creole Days 35 have named after
"

Thi silf Y haue knowe bi 97 Porphyry, whom, I suppose, you ha

. .

1382 WYCLIF Exod. xxxiii. 17 A palish handsome woman, by the name or going by the Und, Old Elm vni,
the great philosopher. 1875 LOWELL Under
"

the Starrs
name. 1667 MILTON P. L. xn. 577 Though all name of Madame John. 1884 J. QUINCY Figures of Past __
Virginia, fitly
._ named from England
ngland s manly
manl; queen !

Thou knewbt by name. 1795-1814 WoRDSW. Exiurs. IV.

,

130 There was a captain by the name of Clark. \\ith the name as complement.
c. With
1226 Abhorrence and contempt are things He only knows by
b. So of the name of. 1390 GOWER Con/. II. 17 And thus Iph
namedc
name. 1864 Cornh. Mag-. X. 175 Sovereigns whom their IphisJThei
1727-8 POPE Let. to Swift 23 Mar., A member of 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) I The cause why
their him.
hii
subjects scarcely knew save by name.
Parliament, of the name of Jonathan Gulliver. 1843 we name this treatyse the pilgrymage of perfection. 1582
11. In one s name, in the name of one : Richardson s Borderer s Table-Ik. Leg. Div. I. n6 A little N. LICHEFIELD tr. Castanheda s Conn. E. Ind. i. ii. 6 After
crouse, chantin chieldie o the name o Tom
a. In phrases expressing invocation of, reliance Fenwick. ward they named it the Hand of Sancta Haclena. 1634
of the Godhead. 14. To ones name, belonging to one. MILTON Comus 58 A Son.. Whom, .she brought up and
upon, or devotion to, the persons not a horse Comus uam d. 1742 POPE Dune. iv. 409, 1 rear d this Flow r,
,1900 CYNEWULF Christ 413 pu sebletsad leofa,
be in 1876 WHVTE MELVILLE Katcrfclto vii, I have
noman cwome. Lindisf. Gosp. to my name. ..Then thron d in glass, and named it Caroline. 1781
Dryhtnes dusebum 1:950
CowrER Charity 3 Whether we name thee Charity or Love.
Matt, xxviii. 19 Fuluande hia in noma fadores & sunu & IV. 15. atlril>.3.-[\AComb.,3.s>>iame-fancy,-sound; was named
971 Blickl. Hoin. 141 Hie on binum
noman 1839 KEIGHTLEY Hist. Eng. I. 52 The province
haljes gastes.
wunnon. c 1200 ORMIN 16813 He ne wass nohht }et C name-calling, f -cleping, -giving; name-giver, Normandy from the Northmen. 1875 JOWETT Plata (ed. 2)
bearing a name as I. 441 There is a virtue, Simmias, which is named courage.
Cristess name fullhtnedd. a 1225 Leg. Kath. i442peole.. -maker; name-worthy adj. ; ,

boleden anan dea3 i be nome of

drihtin. a 1300 Cursor M. name-board, -card, -plate, -ring, -ticket; contain d. In pa.pie. f
266 Now o bis proloug wil we blin In crist nam our bok be Dcstr. Troy 7305 A lyuely yone knight, .. nomet
c 1400
c 1315 SHOREHAM i. 248 Ich cristni be ine be uader
ing or intended for names as name-book, -scroll; ,
Boethes. 1490 CAXTON Eneydos vi. 25 His sone, named
gin
name, And sone, and holy gostes. 1382 WYCLIF Matt. xvm.
named after, or giving a name to, one , as name- pygmaleon, succeded hym. 1530 PALSGR. 643/2 Howe is
20 Where two or three shulen be gedrid in my name. 1413 daughter, -father, -mamma, -saint, (cf. -sire NAME- he named more than Johan? 1603 SHAKS. Lear i. L 274,
E. E. Wills (1882) 21 In the name of god, Amen. ..I, I . am most loth to call Your faults as they are named.
CHILD, -SON); name-bar (see quot.) ; f name-
.

Richard 1534 MoRE Com/, agst. Trib.l. Wks. 1667 MILTON P. L. i. 80 One. .Long after
known in Pales
Jonge
[etc.].
1164/1 name of Jesus euery knee bee bowed.
That in the device, a rebus ; name-part, the part in a play tine,and nam d Beelzebub. 1704 POPE Windsor For. 172
1506 SHAKS. i Hen. IV, m.
ii. 153 This, in the Name of from which it takes its name; f name-wizard, A rural nymph.. the fair Lodona nam d. 1781 COWPER
Heauen, promise
I here. 1738 WESLEY Pi. vi. v, Or in the one skilled in the mystical meaning of names.
Name of Jesus, chase My Troublers all away. Clackm. 180 *f, amc Bar,..
1884 F. J. BRITTEN Watch t,
b. In adjurations, orig. by solemn reference the bar carrying the upper end of a watch barrel arbor.
to God, Christ, or the saints, but latterly with 1846 YOUNG A aut. Diet. s.v. Arch-board, On this, or more service, gained some military experience.
various substitutions for the names of these, the 2. To call by some title or epithet.
c 900 in Bouterwek Screadunga 18 Hwi namode Crist
freq. becoming
a mere ejaculation.
phrase on his godspelle Abel rihtwisne toforan obrum ? c 1375 Sc.
For examples of A God s name, see \prep.* 10. Dcpartm. Ditties, etc.(1899) 101 He keeps the Name Leg. Saints \. (Peter) 550 Of be blame,
bat lytil befor thoht
831 Charter 39 in O. E. Texts mk
Ic. .bebiadeeadwealde Book. 1891 Tablet 10 Jan. 63 The nwt hopeless of all he Of thame namyt of galele. 1382 WYCLIF i Mace. x. i
. an godes naman & an ealra his halijra 5et [etc. ]. a 900
. is that of name-calling. 1798 MME. ARULAY Diary D Alisaundre, son of Antiochus, that is named [v.r. y-namyd]
Durham Adnton. Ibid. 176 Ic eow halsije on faeder naman VI. 202 Captain Dickenson, as his name-card says. 1828 noble, c 1477 CAXTON Jason 6 Fro thenne forthon he
& on suna naman. c 1205 LAY. 10136 Luces be kmg..be3 P. CUNNINGHAM N. S. Wales (ed. 3) II. 112 The name- named him his broder. 1535 COVERDALE Isa. Ixi. 6 Ye
hine on godes nomen bat him god uoe. a 1300 Cursor M. cards are elegantly printed by our colonial press. 1387-8 shalbe named the prestes of the Lorde. 1588 SHAKS. L.L.L.
11915 Vnto your kyth, on godds nam, I bidd yow bat yee T. USK Test. Lame m. i. (Skeat) 1. 102 In that denomi-
i.ii. 18 As an appertinent title
to your olde tune, which we
nu wend ham. 1362 LANGL. P. PI. A. l. 71, [1] halsede hire riacion I wol me acorde to other mens tonges, in that
may name tough. 1631 CHETTLE Hojfman 83
\Vhat
in hei3e nome er heo theonne 5eode, What heo weore witerly. *name-cleping. 1809 GRANT Lett. fr. Mountains III. for this.. he was nam d A prescript outlaw. 1732
though
c 1440 Alph. Tales 264 In be Name, speke, bou yong childe, 212 My eldest girl is now staying here, and your *name- POPE Ess. Man I.282 Cease then, nor Order Imperfection
& tell if bisdekyn did bis trispas I47-*S MALMWXrttw !

daughter with Duncan at the Fort. 1631 WEEVER Anc. name. 1818 SHELLEY Silence 2 Silence! Oh, well aie
vn. viii. 224 In the deuyls name sayd the damoysel that Funeral Man. 277 An vsual fashion in former times which . .
Death and Sleep and Thou Three brethren named. 1869
suche a bawdy kechen knaue [etc.]. 1595 SHAKS. John u. i. they call rebus, or *name-deuises. 1865 LUBBOCK Preh. LYNCH Churcli $ State 17 Name them bishops, or name
106 In the name of God How comes it then that thou art Times 471 In some tribes these name-fancies take a differ them not bishops, you will still have chief men.
call d a King 1 1611 Wint. T. HI. iii. 105 Name of mercy, 1748 RICHARDSON Clarissa IV. 5 Knowest thou
f b. In pass. To have a (good or bad) name
ent form.
when was this, boy? 1626 MASSINGER Roman Actor iv. ii,
;

not, that I am a great name-father? 1894 HALL CAINE

In the name of wonder, What s Caesar s purpose ? 1642 Manxman VT. iv, Go to your god-father. He d have been to be (well or ill) spoken of. Obs. rare.
hath evere be wel
[see GOODNESS
5]. 1722 DE FOE Plague (1884) 85 Name of your name-father too if [etc.]. 1610 HOLLAND Camden s 1390 GOWER Con/. I. 333 Sche, that
God go in. 1740 J. CLARKE Educ. Youth (ed. 3) 16 In the Brit. I. 7 Whythe Britains should so much sticke unto their named Ibid. III. 268 That in hir lif sche were schamed
Name of Wisdom, what is the Meaning? 1819 SHELLEY Brutus, as the *name-giuer of their Hand. 1881 A. J. And I therof were evele named, a 1533 LD. BERNERS Gold.
Cenci iv. i. 128 Earth, in the name of God, let her food be EVANS in Alacm. Mag. XI. III. 219 A
great city,. .the Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) G b, My sonne in lawe is greatly
1861 HUGHES Tom Brown at Ox/, ix, What in the desyred, loued and wel
named amonge the common people,
poison. namegiver of this whole inland sea. 1863 A. B. GROSART some
name of fortune have they been doing to you ? 1875 JOWETT Small Sins (ed. 2) 74 The insidious name-giving to any t c.give (one) the name (of being
To
I lato led. 2) I. 212 What, in the name of goodness, do you MAX
BOOM!! come hither to teach?
sins of small sins . 1864 MULLER Sci. Lang. Ser. n.
viii. (1868) 336 Locke never seems to have realised the
thing) to allege or declare (a person or thing) to
;

be something. Obs.
c. Denoting the use of another s name to give intricacies of the names-giving process. 1875 WHITNEY
KEY!!! authority or countenance to one s acts ;
or im Life Lang. viii. 136 The claims of rival name-makers
very sharply discussed. 1893 STEVENSON Catriona 3;
are
37
1470-85 MALORY Arthur x. xlvi. 488 Corsabryn noysed
her and named her that she was oute of her mynde. 1568
action is done on account or on GRAKTON Chron. II. 342 Sir John Froyssart namcth one
plying that the That very fine great lady that is Barbara s *name-mamm;
this is what behalf of some other person or persons. Hence, 1894 Wcstm. Gnz. II Sept. 3/3 It had been intended, .that John Ball to be a chiefe Captaine. 1591
(Surtees) 332 [He] did then jussell upon
Durham Defies.
a stramger naymed
Lind should take the "name part. 1882 OGILVIE,
by contrast to this, in one own. name.
s Miss Letty
1647 N. BACON Disc. Gout. Eng.
i. v. (1739)
name to be a Duke.
they do to 1383 WYCLIF i Kings xxi. 3
Therefor bche wroot [etlris in Nameplatc, a metal plate bearing a person s [etc.].

us.
 NAME. 15 NAMELESS.
13 Other obedience than this I do not know to be due to DICKENS Mugby June, MUs
him whom you name to be Pope. iii, Piff, trembling with Indie- t NameCOUtll, a. Obs. Forms
nation, called out ; Name !
: I
namctifl,
(d. In pass. To be said to be, etc. Obs. rare 1 . 6, To mention, speak or specify (a of, 3-4 namecouth, (4 -cop, -koup, 6 Sf. -kouth),
thing) by
1551 RECOEDE Pat km. Knmel. i. xxvii, The circle is not its name or usual 4-5 namecouthe, (4 -kowpe), 6 naamkouth,
named to be drawen in a triangle, because it doth not louche designation.
WYCLIF Sc. naimcouth; 1-3
the sides of the triangle. 1382 Eph. v. 3 Fornycacioun. .and al vnclennesse, nomeouCe, 4-5 -kowthe.
or nuance, be notnamed in 3011. 1390 GOWER Con/. II 84
3. To call (a person or thing) by the right name. [OE. namriiS, nomeciiS see NAME sA. and COUTH :

Quikselver..the which. .Is ferst of thilke fowre named. Known by name, well known, famous.
In Sc. use freq. with negative, implying that one has for 535 COVERDALE i Cor. v. i Soch whordome, as is not once
a.]
gotten the name.
a 1000 Laivs Etlielred ix. 37 in Thorpe I.
named amonge the Heythen. 1591 SHAKS. i Hen. i. i.
348 On )>am

c 1450 Merlin 319 Gentill sir, Cometh forth, for I can not ^emotan^ |?eah radlice wurOanon namcu&m stowan. c 1000
/"/,

41 Name not Religion, for thou lou st the Flesh. 1608

yet yow namen. 1610 SHAKS. Temp, i. ii. 335 Thou., Per v. iii. 33 Did you not name a tempest, A birth and /ELFRIC in Assmann Ags. Horn. (1889) 85 Da beoo heah-
wouldst teach me how To name the bigger Light and how death? faederas, nomecuSc waeras. Ibid. 92 Sum rice cyning nam-
1671 MILTON Samson 674 Nor do I name of men
. .

the lesse. 1611 Wint. T. \. ii. 386 There is a sicknesse, the common rout. 1733 POPE Ess. Man n. cuS on worulde. a 1225 Leg. Kalh. 537 Wittiest. .&
193 Nor Virtue,
me<t

Which puts some of vs in distemper, but I cannot name the male or female, can we name, Hut what will grow on nomecuoe icud of alle clergies, c izoo S. Eng. Leg. I.
Disease. tjttBvWtffafyf iariv, I msure I ve seen that or grow on Shame.
Pride, 467/181 To Marcile wynd heom drof, a gret name couth
1781 COWPER Conversat. 496 The
J>e

bonie face, But yet I canna name ye. 1846 KEBLE Lvra woes that fear or shame, .forbade them once to name. cite. 1340-70 Alc-t.t, Dind. 823 pe ahel king alexandre, ..
Ittnoc. 24 Easier each hour the task will grow To name the SHELLEY Cenci iv. iv. 128 The crimes which mortal
1819 pat noble is & name-koujj. 1387 TKKVISA Higden (Rolls) I.
tongue 43 A] f?e worlde aboute ha) name kowthe sees
unfolding flower. dare never name. 1860 PLSEY Mia. Proph. 582 To name }>ritty.

1413 Pilgr. Sou>lc (Ca.vton v. i. (1859) 7 One of the seuene

1

II. 4. To
nominate, designate, assign, or ap evil is a temptation to evil.
name couthe planetes, that ben cleped of clerkes sterres
trans/, 1599 SHAKS. Hen. r, iv. Prol. 16 The Clocks doe
point (a person) to some office, duty, or position. tovvlc And the third howre of drowsie
erratiks. 1513 DOUGLAS SEneis vi. i. 59 The naimcouth
a icoo Laws Edw. in Thorpe I. 158 ji f he .. ne mehte, Morning name. hous, that Laborinthus h.iit. [IS57GKIMAI.DR in Tottel s
namede him man six men. a 1000 Lti-ws sEthelst. b. To make mention of, to speak about Misc. (Arb.) 102 As in the famous woork, that Eneidshisjht
J>onne
(a fact,
ibid. 240 Beforan..his witum be se
cyng silf namode. circumstance, etc.). f Also const, on. The naamkouth Virgil hath set forth in sight.]
c 1000 ^ELFRIC Horn. II. 500 [Hi] wurdon
jenamode to 1542 UDALL Erasm. Apoph. 196 b, The same is named on Hence f Mamecouthhead. 06s. rare.
bam ylcan ^ewinne be heora fa?deras on waron. 1430-40 diverse others aswell as on Alexander.
1599 SHAKS. Hen. I 1340 Aycnb. 25 Huanne he wilne)>and zekjiand porchace]>
LVDG. Bochas ix. xix. (1554) 27 How Robert duke of Nor
,
iv. iii. 42 He.. Will stand a
tip-toe when this day is named. los and namecoubhede.
mandy., was named to the crowne of Jerusalem. 1496-7 1617 MORYSON Itin. i. 228, I was troubled with loosenesse t JTamecund, a. Ols. rare- .
Act 12 Hen. VII, c. 13 i The seid orderours and assessours of body, whereof I made good use, as I shall hereafter [Cf. NAME-
shew, COUTH and MI)u. name-, naet>!cond-.~]
..shall name Collectours for the levye of the same aide. which makes me name it. 1669 STI/R.MY Mariner s Mag. Famous.
1541-3 Act 34 35 Hen. ( ///, c. 27
,5- 56 Such persons, as iv. viii. 218 This Rule will not be
impertinent to this Place,
c 1200 ORMIN 6863 piss illke Balaam was an Full name-
shalbe named to be iustices of peace. 1552 AV^ being not named before. 1719 DK FOE Crusoe \\. (Globe) cund prophete Onn aide da5hess.
Pri-cy .

Council Scot. I. 130 Gif the Lord neames his tennent and
chargis to mak him in reddiness to compeir. 1605 SHAKS.
511 My Fellow-Traveller and I had different Notions. I do
not name this to insist upon my own. 1729 POPE Let. to
Named (n^ md),///. a. [f. NAME txi + -ED i.]

Macb. ii. iv. 31 He is already nam d, and gone to Scone To

a. Mentioned by name. (Usu. with abtrve-, be
Swift 28 Nov., I was once displcas d before at you, for
be inuested. 1687 A. LOVELL tr. The- enot s Tra:: I. 81 * fore-, first-, last-, etc.) b. Famous, distinguished,
complaining to Mr. of my not having a pension, and am
Hisouf Basha..was declared Mansoul, and Kaidar Zada so again at your naming it to a certain Lord.
1874 GREEN (^highly) spoken of. rare. fc. Called by a certain
named in his place. 1726 WODROW Corr. (1843) III. 240 Short Hist. ii. 8. 106 The measures we have named were
The Assembly came to the choice of the new Moderator, name; so-called. Obs.
only part of Henry s legislation.
and Mr. Mitchell 1467- [see BEFORE E. ij. 1490- [see FORE-NAMED). 1530
was named by the Commissioner.
. . C. To mention or cite as an instance. PALSGR. 319/2 Noysed named or bruted, fameu-f. 1:1530
1799 JEFFERSON Writ. (ed. Ford) VII. 362 In the mean 1594 SHAKS. Rich. ///, iv. iv. 173 What comfortable houre L. Cox R hit. (1899) 54 The excellent and moste
time, a consul general is named to St. Domingo. 1831 hj-ghly named
canst thou name, That euer g.ac d me with thy
Examiner 563 ! A malignant Ministry.. names him to a company? philosopher Plato. 1567 RASTEI.L (.title) A brief Shew of
1690 LOCKE Hunt. Untt. i. ii. 23, I would gladly have any the false wares packed together in the named
Apology o/
Bishopric. 1874 GREEN Short Hist. viii. m. 568 Though one name that proposition whose terms or ideas were either the Churck of hngland.
the members of the Council were 1591 \\"EST \st Ft. Symbol, i.
originally named by him, of them innate. 12 a, Named contracts, be those which have a cause
each member was irremovable save by consent of the rest. by
d. To
state, give particulars of.
law defined, and they are called by proper names. 1603-
fb. To assign (an honour, etc.) to a person. 1605 SHAKS. Lear i. i. 73, I finde she names my very deede [see AFORF. D. i b]. 1837 CARLYLE f r. Rev. III. i. ii, The
1523 Q- MARGARET in Mrs. Wood Lett. Illustr. Ladies I. of loue Onely she comes too short. 1735 POPE Donne
:
famed and named go; the nameless, if they have an accuser.
301 The cause of this is about the benefices, for the Sat. iv. 162 He names the pi ice for ev ry oftice paid. 1847 Infantry Man. (18541 89 The named liie moves. .on.
1850
governor hath named them to sundry persons, but he..
Eoldeth them in his hands.
TENNYSON / Mem. xciii, Hear The wish too strong for Hence f Na medly adv., by name. Obs. rare-*.
words to name. 1864 En. Ard. 215 Annie, the ship I a 1641 Bp. Mot-NTAcu Acts fy Mon. (1642) 221 Cicero
fc. intr. To vote. Obs. rare . sail in passes here (He named the day). speaks namedly of the Acrostichis.
1566 in Fowler Hist. C.C.C. (O.H.S.) in He hath lost 7. \\ithcognateobject: a. To utter or mention name
his right of theColledge for
refusinge to name diffinitivelye
Name-day (ne -m^f). Also s-day.
in Mr. Belly s matter. (the name of a person or thing). [f. NAME st. + DAY; in sense I, after Du. naamdag,
5. To mention, speak of, or specify 1382 WYCLIF 2 Tim. ii. 19 Ech man that nameth the name Da. navndag, or G. namenstag, Sw. ttamnsttag.]
(a person or of the Lord. 1526 Pilgr. Per/. (W. de W. 1531) 219 b, Thy
1. The day sacred to the saint whose name one
persons, etc.) by name. fAlso absol. holy name is inuocate & named vpon vs. 1588 SHAKS.
c 1000 >LFIUC Saints Lives viii.
165 Quintianus cwaeS L.L.L. iii. i. 167 When tongues speak sweetly, then they bears. (Used chiefly with reference to continental
jit bu namast Crist ! Ibid. ix. 37 Nu bidde ic be ban bu name her name. 1715 DE FOE l<am. Instruct, i. i. (1841) I. j

nanne bryd-guman nzfre me ne namige. 1390 GOWER

. .
sovereigns.)
24 It is a .. profane thing to name his name on slight occasions.
I

a. 1721 LontJ. Gaz. No. 5980/2 Yesterday being the King

Con/. I. 156 The knyht also, if I schal name, Danz Petro 1820 SHELLEY Hymn. Merc, x, Still scoffing at the scandal, of Sweden
hihte. a 1425 Cursor M. 5i6z(Trin.), Whenneiacob in bed And naming his own name. 1864 TENNYSON Aylmers F.
s Name-Day. 1777 ROBF.RTSON Hist. Amer. II.
433 Presents made to him on the anniversary of his Name-
pat lay herde loseph named bat day. c 1475 RaufCoilyar 581 That night, that moment, when she named his name, day (which is always observed as an high festival). 1812
503 He namit na mair the, Nor ane vther man to me. 1535 f b. To utter (a word) ; to say. Obs. LD. CATHCART in Examiner 12 Oct. 649/1 The accounts of
COVERDALE i Sam. xxviii. 8 Bringe me him vp whom I shal 1588 SHAKS. L.L.L. v. ii. 239 Dn. Will you vouchsafe the battle, .reached the Emperor early on the morning of
name vnto thee. 1560 DAUS tr. Sleidanc s Comm. 44 b, with me to change a word? Mar. Name it. Tit. A. his name-day. 1865 Pall Mall G. 21 Sept. 9/1 Several pro
Herin he named no nation. 1590 SHAKS. Midi. N. i. ii in, ii. 33 As if we should forget we had no hands, If Marcus motions, .were made at St. Petersburg on the occasion of
Now name the rest of the Players. 1630 K. Johnson41s did not name the word of hands. 1593 3 Hen. /, v. v. the Emperor s name-day.
Kingd^. 4- Conmnu. A 2 b. Some of our owne have beene
_

58 What s worse then Murtherer, that I may name it? ft. 1799 W. TOOKE View Russian Etnp. I. 372 No one
more ingenuous, to name him when they quote him and
thats faire play.
:
8. To mention or specify as something desired, neglects to keep his birth and name s day, and those of his
1711 STEELE Sped. No. 254 F 5, I .never .
family. 1841 MorLEy Corr. (1889) I. iv. 98 The day of the
hear him named but with Pleasure and Emotion. suggested, or decided upon to appoint or fix (a
1791
;
Emperor s fete (or day distinguished, .as the name s-day of
MRS. RADCLIFFE Rom. Forest viii, Theodore was not once sum, time, etc.). To name the day, of a woman, the Czar. .). 1881 Scribners Mag. Oct. 886/1 On the 5th
named. 1817 W. SELWVN Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. to fix her wedding day, of December, the names-day of the Empress.
949
If two ports of
discharge are named in the policy [etc]. 1835 The day on which
TENNYSON Brook 130 He took Her blind and shuddering 593 SHAKS. Rich. 7/,iv. i. 304 Rich. He beg one Boons.. 2. a child is named.
Shall I obtaine it ? Bull. Name it, faire Cousin. 1594 1880 MUIRHF.AD Ulpian xv. 2 note. The name-day was
puppies, naming each. 1875 JOWETT Plato (ed. 2) I. 296
Tell me to whom
Kick. ///, in. iv. 19 But you, my Honorable Lords, may the ninth for boys and the eighth for gills.
among the Athenians he should go. name the time. 1611 KIKI.R Gen. xxiii. 16 Abraham weighed v. nome-wd. sb. + -IFY.] NAME
Whom would you name? fNa-mefy, [t.
toEphron the siluer, which he had named. 1638 EARL To mention
trans/. 1850 TENNYSON / Mem. ii, Old Yew, which MANCH. in Buccleuck AfSS. (Hist. MSS. Comm.) I. 278 To
trans. by name.
graspest at the stones That name the under-lying dead. name 24 /. a month.. is so poor and mean an offer. 1778 1589 LVLY Pafpe TV. Hatchet Wlis. 1902 III. 406 Name
b. re/I. To announce one s own name. Miss BURNEY Evelina l.xxxi, If there is any thing I can me? Mary, he and his shall bee namefied, that s it 1 thirst

597 SHAKS. 2 Hen. IV, n. ii. I3 o John Falstaffe Knight : name which he can do for me. 1835 DICKENS Sk. Boz. name to name.
after, that
(Euery man must know that, as oft as hee hath occasion to Mr. Watkins Tottle ii, I am quite sure that I never could t N"
amel, obs. aphet. form of ENAMEL.
name himselfe 1
.
1607 Cor. iv. v. 63 Necessitie commands ..name the day to my future husband. 1863 READE 1436 LVDG. nigr. Life 6686 Loo, her, Man . . Off the
me to name my selfe. Hard Cash xxxiv, Then he made hot love to her, and syluer bellys clere, And off the namel ek yfere.
c. To name on (orz) the same her hard name the Namele, form of NAMELY adv.
Jay (or ^ of a pressed to day. obs.
d(iy),\.o bring into comparison or connexion. Only t Name, v.* obscure var. of NIM z/., to take.
t
Nameless (n/ -mles), a. Also 4-7 nameles,
Cuthbert (Surtees) 3iopat a childe in his
[ME. nameles = MDu. name-, iiacm-
in negative and c 1450 5/. kyng-
interrogative sentences. dome Now late borne he myght him name. 6-7 -lesse.
ci6o6 B. JONSON Epigr. cxxxi, They were not to be loos (Du. name-, nnamloos^, MHG. namells (G.
named on the same day. a 1641 Bp. MOUNTAGU Acts % Name, pa. t. of NIM v. Obs.
Man. (1642) 37 But nor he (Abraham) nor he (David) to be Nameable (n<f*mab l), a. Also namable. namenlos, namlos}, Da. navnlos, Sw. namnlos :

named in the same day with our Saviour. 1694 CONGREVE NAME v. 1 + -ABLE.] see NASIE sb. and -LESS.]
Double- Dealer in. u,Sir Paul...\ou may talk of my Lady [t.
1. That admits of being named, or being called 1. Not possessed of a (distinguished) name;
Froth Care. O, fy fy not to be named of a day. devoid of name or fame ; unknown by name
! ! !
1839
LOCKHART Scott (1900) I. 275 That Scott. .was not to be by a certain name. ;

named as a table-companion in the same day with this or 1840 CARLYLE ff?r0es(iB$B) 299 This is the Heavenly Ideal obscure, inglorious.
that master of. .dissertation. (well named Knox s time, and namable in all times, a re
in c 1311 Pol. Songs (Camden) 254 For fiht is fliht, the lond
d. Of the Speaker of the House of Commons : vealed Will of God 1843 MILL Logic \. iii.
). 2 We shall is nameles. c 1374 CHAUCER Boctli. IV. pr. v. (1868) 131
commence with Feelings, the simplest class of nameable Exiled pore and nedy and nameles. 1582 STANYHURST
To indicate (a member) by name as guilty of dis
1886 STEVENSON Dr. Jckyll 25 He gave an im /Eneis n. (Arb.) 61 Prince Priamus..In shoare now name-
things.
orderly conduct or disobedience to the chair. pression of deformity without any nameable malformation. lesse dooth ly lyke a truncheon al headlesse. 1616 B AUM. (-:

1792 Hansard s Parl. Hist. 113 The Speaker., XXX. 2. Worthy of being named ;
memorable. & FL. Bonduca n. i, When one is smother d with a multi
stated that.. he was now
compelled to name the member 1838 CARLYLE Fredk. Gt. in. xiv. tude, And crowded in amongst a nameless press. 1658 SIR
I. 311 Donauwtfrth. ..
that had given this
interruption. 1810 Sporting Mag. A Town nameable in History ever since. T. BROWNE Hydriot. v. 75 To benamelesse in worthy deeds
XXXV. 1865 Ibid. xvni. x.
302 The Speaker. .felt very sorry that it would V. 253 Mollendorf, nameable from that day forward. exceeds an infamous history. 1728 POPE Dvnc. III. 157
become his duty to name him. 1881 Hansard s Parl. Deb. Each Songster, Riddler, ev ry nameless name. 1813 SCOTT
Hence NameabiVity.
CCLVIII.68 Mr. Speaker, In the terms of the standing Rokeby in. xviii, Maiden a nameless life I lead, A nameless
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1882 W. HOEY tr. Oldenbcrg s Buddha The bases on death I ll die. 1855 TENNYSON Maud i. iv. iii, I am name
order, I Name you.. as wilfully disregarding the authority 230
which all nameability and existence, .rest.
1887 BOWEN yirg. JEneid vi. 505 Thou
of the Chair. all less and poor.
e. Name ! Used in or
Parliamentary practice,
Name-child, [f. NAME sb. 15 + CHILD.] One hadst laid thee to die on a heap of the nameless dead.
in imitation of demand that a member be called after, or named out of regard for, another. b. Not mentioned by name left in obscurity.
this, to
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1845 Miss STRICKLAND Queens of Eng, VIII. 3 She was 535 MORE Kick. ///, Wks. 57 The other two were
named, or that the name of some person alluded the darling of her.. father, being the child of his old age, somwhat grcter parsonages, natheles of their humilite &
to by a content to be nameles. 1667 MILTON P. L. vi. 380 Name
speaker shall be given. his name-child. 1876 SWINBURNE Ercchthens 877 The
1817 Parl. Deb. 279 Loud cries of hear, hear, name, name, rmmechild of the lords of under earth. less in dark oblivion let them dwell. 1868 FREEMAN Norm.
order. 1859 READE Lo-. t m? Little II. 244 Who told you trans/. 1872 Daily News 12 Aug., The Bellerophon. .the Com;. (1877) II. App. 545 The lands had been held by
that,aunt? Name; as they say in the House. 1866 massive name-child of the old historic fighting ship. a nameless freeman.