- Family appellation
- Family title
- Jones, say
- Last name
- Refined man rues what bride might take from him
- Smith, for example
- A name or appellation which is added to, or over and
above, the baptismal or Christian name, and becomes a family name.
- The name of Vishnu in his tenth and last avatar.
- Day of wrath; -- the name and beginning of a famous
mediaeval Latin hymn on the Last Judgment.
- An inscription, monogram, or cipher, containing the place
and date of publication, printer's name, etc., formerly placed on the
last page of a book.
- Puzzle hiding a secret message
- Word puzzle
- A composition, usually in verse, in which the first or
the last letters of the lines, or certain other letters, taken in
order, form a name, word, phrase, or motto.
- A Hebrew poem in which the lines or stanzas begin with
the letters of the alphabet in regular order (as Psalm cxix.). See
Abecedarian.
- Alt. of Acrostical
- New Year’s Eve in Scotland
- The old name, in Scotland, for the last day of the year,
on which children go about singing, and receive a dole of bread or
cakes; also, the entertainment given on that day to a visitor, or the
gift given to an applicant.
- The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R.
Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting
muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial
roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems.
The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent
plant.
- The mango fish.