This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 edition. Excerpt: ... BLISS. In English, is a very happy name, imposed by others on the individual . Elys, in the Welsh, signifies desiring, longing. BLIVEN. (Danish.) From Beleven, affable, genteel, kind. BLOOD. In the Dutch, signifies timorous, cowardly; a simpleton. Lower informs us that G-odkin, Blood (S'blood), and Sacre, may be regarded as clipped oaths, and given as names to the persons in the habit of using them; and that in the neighborhood of a fashionable square in London, are now living surgeons whose names are Churchyard, Death, Blood, and Slaughter. BLOSS. Local . From Blots, the chief town of a territory of the same name in Orleans, France. BLOUNT, BLOUND, or BLOND. (Nor. Fr.) Of fair hair or complexion; from the French Blond. This family trace their origin to the Blondi or Brondi of Italy, so named from their fair complexion. They went into England with William the Conqueror. BLUNDELL. (Nor. Fr.) From Blund or Blond, fair-haired, and having the same signification, only in a lesser degree. BlundeU, a little fair-haired, so Russell, from Rous--red. BLUNT. The same as Blount (which see). BLYTH. Glad, gay, joyful. Elyth, local, a town in England. BOARDMAN. One who keeps a boarding-house. BOCK. (Dutch.) Bock, a book; bok, a goat. BOCOCK. Beaucock, a fine fellow; a straggler. BODINE. (Fr.) Waggish, merry, sportive. Boodinne, in the Dutch, signifies a she-messenger. BODLEY. (Cor. Br.) Local. The house on the lea; from Bod, a house, and ley. BOGART. (Dutch.) Local. From boomgard, an orchard. BOGUE. Local. From the residence being near a bog, or from the Saxon boga, a bend, a bow, a corner; a town in France; the name appears on ancient coins in Sussex, England. BOLINGBROKE. Local. A town in Lincolnshire, England, the birth-place of Henry IV. " The...