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  • 21Aikman — This most interesting and unusual name is of Scottish origin from any of three possible sources. Firstly, it may derive from the old English pre 7th Century personal name Agemund of uncertain etymology. Alternatively, it may have been a name… …

    Surnames reference

  • 22Caddick — This unusual and interesting name has two possible origins. Firstly it may derive from the Old Welsh personal name Cadoc , a diminutive form of the Celtic element found in the Welsh word cad , battle, or it may be a pet form of the Welsh personal …

    Surnames reference

  • 23Caddock — This unusual and interesting name has two possible origins. Firstly it may derive from the Old Welsh personal name Cadoc , a diminutive form of the Celtic element found in the Welsh word cad , battle, or it may be a pet form of the Welsh personal …

    Surnames reference

  • 24weezer — n American a weak, eccentric and/or infirm person. The word, perhaps a combination of wimp and geezer, was adopted as the name of a US rock band in the early 1990s …

    Contemporary slang

  • 25semi-invalid — noun a partially disabled or somewhat infirm person …

    English new terms dictionary

  • 26crutch — [[t]krʌtʃ[/t]] n. 1) a staff or support to assist a lame or infirm person in walking, usu. having a crosspiece at one end to fit under the armpit 2) anything that serves as a temporary support 3) crotch 1) 4) navig. naut. navig. a forked support… …

    From formal English to slang

  • 27crutch — /krʌtʃ / (say kruch) noun 1. a staff or support to assist a lame or infirm person in walking, now usually with a cross piece at one end to fit under the armpit. 2. any of various devices resembling this in shape or use. 3. a forked support or… …

  • 28infirmity exemption — A homestead exemption granted an infirm person, although he is not the head of a family. 26 Am J1st Home § 15 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 29walking frame — noun A usu metal frame for giving an infirm person support while walking • • • Main Entry: ↑walk …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 30JOB, BOOK OF — (named for its hero (Heb. אִיּוֹב), ancient South Arabian and Thamudic yʾb; Old Babylonian Ayyābum, Tell el Amarna tablet, no. 256, line 6, A ia ab; either from yʾb, to bear ill will or compounded of ay where? and ʾab (divine) father ), one of… …

    Encyclopedia of Judaism