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ives
/aɪvz/
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What does ives mean?
proper noun
- A surname originating as a patronymic.
- An unincorporated community in Stoddard County, Missouri, United States, named after John Ivester.
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Among the fairs of the first class in England were Winchester, St. Botolph's Town (Boston), and St. Ives.
Nathaniel Wheeler, James Loomis, Francis Ives, Frederick Wood, and some others, who went with him to the landowners and added their persuasions to his.
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In all references to the fruit of this species it is described as "oval and green," except in Ives Report, where Dr. Engelmann describes its real character as the ordinary fruit of Eumamillaria.
He had up to the moment almost of his sudden and unexpected death been busy on Weir of Hermiston and St Ives, which he left unfinished--the latter having been brought to a conclusion by Mr Quiller-Couch.
One of the most curious of the many strange practices which the conservatism of the Established Church of England has continued down to the present is one in vogue at the parish church of St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire.