78 TEESDALE PL.VCE-NAMES. 



GlELINGTON. 



Perhaps from a patronymic Girling and ton. This name, 

 however, is not among those in Kemble's list in vol. ii. of his 

 Saxons in England; though there are names similar, e.g., Gar- 

 lingas — Garling, Kent, and Gearlingus -Yarlington, Oxfordsh. 



Grain. 



Icel. '^ grein. 1. properly a branch of a tree; 2. metaphorically 

 a branch, an arm of the sea, science, &c." Cleasby, who says 

 it is not found in German, Saxon, or English. It is, however, 

 in common use in the north of England and south of Scotland. 



Dan. green '. Sw. gren, branch of a tree, bough ; Ger. zweig. 



Not in A.-S. 



There is the apparently cognate grenze in Ger., grens in Dut. 

 and Flem., a boundary or division. 



Neither of them exists in the Celtic tongues. 



Ihre gives ^' grena, dividere ; Isl. greina, id., grein, pars, dis- 

 tinctio ; Gr. KpLvetv, to divide, separate, (the root is zm, Sansc. 

 ^ri) ; and gren, ramus ; Veteres Galli rain. Den grenar sig z=.it 

 (that is the river) divides itself. Rot en gren:=Yoot and branch. 



In Lat. ramus, and in It. ramo, ramuscello, branch ; Sp. rama, 

 ramo ; Port, ramo, esgalho, o brago d'um rio ; Fr. rameau, hranche. 



" Grain, a branch of a tree." Halliwell. 



" Grain, a branch ; properly that which is grown. Hence corn 

 (generally), hence also a branch (locally), whence by association, 

 the grains or branches of a fork. The grain of wood, the grow- 

 ing, the direction in which it grows. Suio-Goth. gren, ramus." 

 Brockett. 



" Grain, grane, 1, the branch of a tree. So. Scot. ; 2. the stalk 

 or stem of a plant; 3. the branch of a river; 4, the prongs of a 

 fork are called grains. Also the branches of a valley where it 

 divides into two, as Lewinshope Grains. So. Scotl. 



" Granit, forked, or having grains. Neptune's trident is called 

 'the three granit sceptour wand.' " Jamieson. 



In Durham and Northumberland, as well as Yorkshire, the 



