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Word watching answers: January 30, 2006

JAVELOTIER

(a) A soldier armed with a javelot or javelin. A javelineer. An adaptation of the obsolete French. 1600: “Hee (Hannibal) sent for fresh supply out of Africa, especially of Archers and Javelotiers, and those lightly armed.”

MOULAGE

(b) An impression of (part of a) person or an object, the material used, or the process of taking an impression. An adptation of the French mouler, to mould. 1973: “The detection of murder no longer need depend on fingerprints, blood types and moulages.”

LOOGAN

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(b) A fellow. A fool. In derogatory use. US slang. Etymology unknown. 1933: “There’s Rose, with his syndicate behind him, and all the loogans he’s imported from back East.”

OUTNIM

(c) To except. Leave out. An adaptation of the Old English ut niman. 1350: “And that ne no man outnim by no manner of franchise.”