to name

A name added to another name; a name given in addition to the Christian and surname of a person to distinguish him from others of the same name; a nickname (q. v.). Such to names are frequent where families continually intermarry, and where, consequently, the same name is common to several individuals. To-names are common, especially among the fisher population on the east coast of Scotland, and in Wales. tô-(1), pref . [A. S. tó (pref.); cogn. with Old Fries. to- , te ; O. H. Ger. zar, zer, za, ze, zi- ; Ger. zer-.] A particle formerly used in composition with verbs, participles, or adjectives, with the force of asunder, in twain, to pieces, or with an augmentative force; entirely, quite, altogether. [ALL-TO.] *to-bete, v . t. To beat severely. 4110 direct experiment, that no toad can live for two years if deprived of food and air. [PIPA, SUR IN AM TOAD.] Toads, like other Batrachians, are absent from most oceanic islands, the reason being that their spawn is immediately destroyed by immersion in salt water. ( Darwin : Orig. of Species .) Toad in the hole: A dish composed of meat baked in batter. ( Eng .) "The dish they call a toad in a hole. putting a noble sirloin of beef into a poor, paltry batter-pudding." -Mad. D ' Arblay: Diary, vi. 153.