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Ing is not iu Bosworth, except as Ingwyrt, meadow-wort. 

 Ingleton = the tun of the meadoWj or meadow lea. 



Kabee. 



? Wei. cahar, rafter, antler of deer. 



A.-S. cafer-tun, an enclosure before a house ; 2. a large hall. 

 See Keyerston and Ber. 



Keld. 



Icel. ^' Jcelda (Mid. H. G. qual and quail; Ger. quelle; Dan. 

 Hide', Sw. Italia; Cp. Engl, id ell ; !N"orth Engl, keldz^a, spring), 

 a well, spring." Cleasby. 



Suio-Goth. Iccella, scaturigo, fons ; Ant. kcelda, a fountain. 



Dut. spring, fontei'n, hron, spring, well; l^lem.fontein, Iron. ib. 



A.-S. keld, a fountain. Lye and Boswortb. 



"Wei. ffijnnon ; Gael, fuaran, tobar ; Ir. fionns ; Corn, funtess ; 

 Bret, feunteun ; Lat. fons, scaturigo ; It. fonte ; Sp. fuente ; Port. 

 fonte, nascente ; Fr. fontaine. 



'■'•Keld. 1. the smooth part of a river when the rest of the 

 water is rough. North. ; 2. a well, cavern." Halliwell. 



" Keld heads,''^ Yorkshire — Whitaker — ^fountain heads. 



' ' Keld, the still part of a river, which has an oily smoothness 

 while the rest of the water is ruffled. I have only heard this 

 word on the Tyne and confined to the meaning hei-e given ; but 

 a friend who lately visited TJllswater informs me, that when the 

 day is uniformly overcast and the air perfectly still, that lake 

 has its surface dappled with a smooth oily appearance, which is 

 called a keld. The word is also, I find, a common term in York- 

 shire, Westmorland, and Cumberland for a well or spring. 



Keld is the name of a remote village at the head of Swaledale, 

 which I have no doubt must have had its name from a deep still 

 pool in the river." Brockett. 



Keld, a spring ; or perhaps a general name for a river or brook 

 which rises abruptly ; hence the names of places, as Keld-head, 

 the head of the river Costa ; Keld-holm, near the efflux of the 



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