McGillivray

[ muh-gil-uh-vrey ]

/ məˈgɪl əˌvreɪ /

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noun

Alexander, 1759?–93, Native American chief of the Creek nation.

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His first victim there was 53-year-old James McGillivray, who was killed as he slept outside a Placentia shopping center.
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His papers are illustrated by the botanist McGillivray, to whom he may have owed some further assistance.
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"It didn't need the second sight of old Murdoch McGillivray," her brother returned.
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This interval was the opportunity of McGillivray and his friends.
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Such was the character, such the career of Alexander McGillivray.
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It was an opportunity which the keen McGillivray could not suffer to remain unused.
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