ORME. A personal name not uncommon in Saxon and Norman times, and doubtless of Scandinavian origin. In the Old Norse, the generic name for serpents is orm. Some early landowners with tJiis designation have imjn-essed it upon the Ormsbys, Ormerod, Ormside, Ormes-Head, Ormsliirk, in England, and upon Ormidale, the Ormistons, and Ormary, in Scotland. Domesday presents us with tenants called Orrae in the counties of York and Lincoln, and in the former shire a personnge so named held immediately from the crown.

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