NESS

t° NESS. A-Sax. and Danish, ness, Germ, nase, a nose ; also a promontory, as Dengeness in Kent, and tlie Naze in Norway. This occurs as a termination in several names, as Longness, Thickness, Filtness, which may refer to some peculiarity in the noses of the original hearers. More probably, however, they are local.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.