employed or involved in giving professional advice to the public or to those practicing the profession: a consulting physician. 2. of, relating to, or used for consultation: a physician's consulting room. Origin of consulting. 1790-1800.
This surname is derived from the name of an ancestor. 'the son of Hemming.' 'Hemming, a Danish personal name' (Lower). The Hundred Rolls prove the name to have become well established in the 13th century; compare the local Hemingborough in the the Diocese of York, Hemingby (Lincoln), Hemingford Grey (Ely), Heminghall (Norwich), Hemingston (ibid.
Middle English reed or rede, red. Reid is a Scottish and N. English variant. Our directories teem with the name in all its forms, as is the case with all nicknames taken from the complexion of hair or face. Godwin le Rede, Norfolk, 1273.Hundred Rolls.n epithet surname meaning 'red haired' or 'ruddy complexioned.' The spelling red is modern, like the pronunciation. The e was originally long, and in Chaucer mss. the form is usually reed. In later English it was reede, read, reade; in Scottish reid (Skeat, A Student's pastime, p.