a small island; _e.g._ Flatholm (flat island); Steepholm (steep island); Priestholm (of the priest); Alderholm (of alders); Holm, in Sweden, and Hulm, in Norway (the island); Stockholm, anc. _Holmia_ (the island city, built upon stakes). But _holm_ also signifies occasionally a hill, as in Smailholm, in Roxburghshire (little hill); and Hume, or _holm_, Castle, in Berwickshire (on a hill). Sometimes also it signifies a low meadow on the banks of a stream, as in Durham, corrupt. from _Dun-holm_ or _Dunelme_ (the fortress on the meadow), almost surrounded by the R. Wear; Langholm (the long meadow); Denholm (the meadow in the deep valley); Twynholm, anc. _Twynham_ (the dwelling on the hillock), Welsh _twyn_, a parish in Kirkcudbright; Brachenholm (ferny meadow); Lingholme (heather island), in Windermere; also Silverholme (the island of Sölvar, a Norse leader); Bornholm, in the Baltic, anc. _Burgundaland_ (the island of the Burgundians); Axholme, an insulated district in Co. Lincoln, formed by the Rivers Trent, Idle, and Don, from _uisge_, Cel. (water); Drotningholm, in the Mälar Lake near Stockholm (queen’s island), from Swed. _drottmig_ (a queen); Battleholme, found in some places in the north of England, according to Ferguson, means fertile island, from an Old English word _battel_ or _bette_ (fertile). [Sidenote: HOLT, HOLZ (A.S. and Ger.),] a wood; _e.g._ Aldershot (alder-tree wood); Bergholt (the hill or hill fort in the wood); Evershot (the boar’s wood, _eofer_); Badshot (badger’s wood); Bochholt (beech-wood); Jagerholz (huntsman’s wood); Oosterhout (east wood); Holzkirchen (the church at the wood); Thourhout, in East Flanders (the wood consecrated to the god Thor); Tourotte, in the department of Oise, in France (also Thor’s wood); Hootenesse (woody promontory), in Belgium; Diepholz (deep wood); Meerholt and Meerhout (marshy wood); Holt, a woody district in Norfolk. [Sidenote: HOO, or HOE (Scand.),] a spit of land running into the sea; _e.g._ Sandhoe (the sandy cape); The Hoe, in Kent; Kew, in Surrey, anc. _Kay-hoo_ (the quay on the spit of land). [Sidenote: HORN (Ger.), HYRNE (A.S.), HOORN (Dutch),]