A familiar, invented given name for a person or thing used instead of the actual name of the person or thing; A kind of byname that describes a. From Wordnik.com. [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference
I believe Mr. Wilde is entitled to rail against UCLA, byname. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » UCLA Drops Demand That Online Critic Stop Using “UCLA” in His Web Site:] Reference
His byname, "Martel," meant "hammer" and was used to describe the way he indefatigably drove back the Moorish invasion. From Wordnik.com. [[charles martel] saint or sinner] Reference
It certainly seems like Armin Glaser uh, and Mr. Rhino is attainted by this law, since his product is called out byname. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Armed Self-Defense Isn’t Supposed To Be “Sport”:] Reference
He was Conrad Pile -- or "Old Coonrod," as he is known, the descriptive adjectives and byname ever coupled as though one word. From Wordnik.com. [Sergeant York And His People] Reference
It was not so; and the byname by which I went behind my back confirmed it. From Wordnik.com. [David Balfour, Second Part Being Memoirs Of His Adventures At Home And Abroad, The Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent The Appin Murder; His Troubles With Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity On The Bass Rock; Journey Into Holland And France; And Singular Relations With James More Drummond Or Macgregor, A Son Of The Notorious Rob Roy, And His Daughter Catriona] Reference
Scotland Yard, and in several newspaper articles he went out of his way to denounce Holmes byname. From Wordnik.com. [Collected Essays] Reference
Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (byname Der Henker: the hangman) was German political officer in the notorious Early life. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
But directly a word began passing from mouth to mouth; at first, it was scarcely more than a murmur; soon it was a byname on every tongue. From Wordnik.com. [The Prince of India — Volume 02] Reference
No; he had never heard of one called Randall, neither in hat nor cowl, but he knew more of them by face than by name, and more by byname than surname or christened name. From Wordnik.com. [The Armourer's Prentices] Reference
The power of thy speech could not stand even the inventor of the evil; wherefore the flatterer bath savagely given thee over unto the chains, wounds and violent death, O (mentioned byname). From Wordnik.com. [The General Menaion or the Book of Services Common to the Festivals of our Lord Jesus of the Holy Virgin and of Different Orders of Saints] Reference
Earl's Court, about twice as far in the other direction, was for some years a district of London where so many Australians rented accommodation that the area acquired the byname Kangaroo Valley, a rare example of "Overseas Australian English.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VI No 3] Reference
“The Hostage” would therefore have been a perfectly ordinary byname, since it’s an identifying trait. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lesson of the Lorax:] Reference
Sheath had a filthy sound in men’s mouths, being another byname for a woman’s quim, like mudhole or honeypot. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
“The Hostage” would therefore have been a perfectly ordinary byname, since it’s an identifying trait.mischiefQuote. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » The Lesson of the Lorax:] Reference
Pointon English: habitation name from a place in Lincs., so called from OE Pohhingtūn ’settlement (OE tūn associated with Pohha‘, a byname apparently meaning ‘Bag’ (cf. From Wordnik.com. [My name | Linguism] Reference
"'' foundation ''" or "'' city ''" (possibly bestowed by the patriarch Abraham as "'' yireh ''" for Mt. Moriah) and "'' Shalem ''", either an early local deity from pagan times or a byname for. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The man’s name isn’t mentioned; I take it this is because of eminently reasonable concern for the security of his family, but it’s too bad that we can’t properly honor and remember him byname. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Hero:] Reference
Ask for it byname!. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » Public Service Announcement:] Reference
Pearlstein singles out five judges byname. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » An Insufficiently Deferential D.C. Circuit?] Reference
I believe it's not enough for Abu Mazen or Salam Fayyad to accept the principles, "she said, using Abbas 'byname and referring to Fayyad, the P.A. prime minister. From Wordnik.com. [JTA - Recent News] Reference
Barnabas was a Cypriote, Simeon's byname of Niger. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts] Reference
7. we fpeake of isexprcfleiy entreated of byname, Fiift where Luke. From Wordnik.com. [The institution of christian religion] Reference
"byname Charles the Bald, French Charles le Chauve, German Karl der Kahle king of France. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
Jerusalem "was a later word made up of" yeru ", meaning" foundation "or" city "(possibly bestowed by the patriarch Abraham as" yireh "for Mt. Moriah) and" Shalem ", either an early local deity from pagan times or a byname for Yerūshālāyim). From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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