Origin and history of Dublin

[George Miller, "Lectures on the Philosophy of Modern History," Dublin, 1816]...

[The Dublin Review, October 1877] Roaring Forties are rough parts of the ocean between 40 and 50 degrees latitude....

[John Brickell, "The Natural History of North-Carolina," Dublin, 1737]...

In a few hours he reached the castle of Dublin, where he was met by Lady Tyrconnel, a woman of spirit....

Patrick, Near Dublin," 1820] As the name of a genus of butterflies that includes the Red Admiral and the Painted Lady, it...

[Robert James Ball, "The Academic Cicero; or Exercises in Modern Oratory," Dublin, 1823]  Probably the association...

Atkinson of Dublin) traces it to Latin fellare "to suck" (see fecund), which had an obscene secondary meaning in classical...

early 13c., "of or pertaining to the head," from Old French capital, from Latin capitalis "of the head," hence "capital, chief, first," from caput (genitive capitis) "head" (from PIE root *kaput- "head"). The meaning "main, principal, chief, dominant, first in importance" is from

mid-12c., "the exercise of authority in vindication of right by assigning reward or punishment;" also "quality of being fair and just; moral soundness and conformity to truth," from Old French justice "justice, legal rights, jurisdiction" (11c.), from Latin iustitia "righteousnes