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| | *man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or sometimes just "man") - a powerful warship (or frigate) in 1500-1800 in Europe | | *man-of-war (also man-o'-war, or sometimes just "man") - a powerful warship (or frigate) in 1500-1800 in Europe |
| | *[[Ham]] - the second son of [[Noah]], in the [[Book of Genesis]], the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. | | *[[Ham]] - the second son of [[Noah]], in the [[Book of Genesis]], the father of Cush, Mizraim, Phut and Canaan. |
| | + | *indomitable - impossible to defeat or even subdue (the name of the ship) |
| | *vainglorious - boastful | | *vainglorious - boastful |
| | *tartan - patterned cloth with overlapping horizontal and vertical colored bands associated with a clan, from the Scottish Highlands | | *tartan - patterned cloth with overlapping horizontal and vertical colored bands associated with a clan, from the Scottish Highlands |
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| | *impressment - forcing someone into service, typically the [[British]] Navy, without consent | | *impressment - forcing someone into service, typically the [[British]] Navy, without consent |
| | *martial - relating to war, or warlike | | *martial - relating to war, or warlike |
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| | + | *cynosure - someone (or thing) at the center of admiring attention |
| | + | *factitious - artificially created, used as "To one essentially such a novice in the complexities of factitious life, the abrupt transition ...." |
| | + | *indurated - hardened, as in soil indurated by a frost |
| | + | *tawny - mixture of yellow, brown and orange colors, like the coat of a lion |
| | + | *toucan's bill - |
| | + | *halyards - |
| | + | *tar-bucket - |
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