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Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

Same as Mangcorn.

A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.

See Mongoose.

See Mongrel.

A subdivision in the upper part of the Devonian system in America, so named from the Chemung River, along which the rocks are well developed. It includes the Portage and Chemung groups or epochs. See the Diagram under Geology.

ey (Zoöl.), an East Indian monkey (Macacus sinicus), with a tuft of hair on its head; the munga. -- Bonnet piece, a gold coin of the time of James V. of Scotland, the king's head on which wears a bonnet. Sir W. Scott. -- To have a bee in the bonnet. See under Bee. -- Black bonnet. See under Black. -- Blue bonnet. S…

Woolen waste, for mixing with mungo and shoddy.

her allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]

Same as Mung.

A subdivision of the Chemung period in American geology. See Chart of Geology.

To be burnt on the surface; to be parched; to be dried up. Scatter a little mungy straw or fern amongst your seedlings, to prevent the roots from scorching. Mortimer.

ng," or tearing into fibers, refuse woolen goods, old stockings, rags, druggets, etc. See Mungo.