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Galiot
- - A small galley, formerly used in the Mediterranean, built mainly for speed. It was moved both by sails and oars, having one mast, and sixteen or twenty seats for rowers. (b) A strong, light-draft, Dutch merchant vessel, carrying a mainmast and a mizzenmast, and a large gaff mainsail.
Heriot
- - Formerly, a payment or tribute of arms or military accouterments, or the best beast, or chattel, due to the lord on the death of a tenant; in modern use, a customary tribute of goods or chattels to the lord of the fee, paid on the decease of a tenant.
Indict
- verb - accuse formally of a crime
Ingirt
- - To encircle; to gird; to engirt.
Insist
- verb - assert to be true; "The letter asserts a free society"
- be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; "I must insist!"
- beg persistently and urgently; "I importune you to help them"
Joliet
- noun - French explorer (with Jacques Marquette) of the upper Mississippi River valley (1645-1700)
Joliot
- noun - French nuclear physicist who was Marie Curie's assistant and who worked with Marie Curie's daughter who he married (taking the name Joliot-Curie); he and his wife discovered how to synthesize new radioactive elements (1900-1958)