Macleod

[ muh-kloud ]

/ məˈklaʊd /

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noun

John James Rick·ard

[rik-erd], /ˈrɪk ərd/, 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: one of the discoverers of insulin; Nobel Prize in medicine 1923.

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Lady Macleod by no means avoided her noble relatives, nor did she at all avoid Alice Vavasor.
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During Lady Macleod's sojourn in London these morning visits were made almost every day.
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Alice always called Lady Macleod her aunt, though, as has been before explained, there was no such close connexion between them.
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Alice, as she asked this question, turned round and confronted Lady Macleod boldly.
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British Dictionary definitions for Macleod

Macleod

/ (məˈklaʊd) /

noun

John James Rickard. 1876–1935, Scottish physiologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1923) with Banting for their part in discovering insulin

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