dungaree (dunggare)

[Anglo-Ind., low, common, vulgar.] A coarse cotton stuff, generally blue, worn by sailors. The crew have all turned tailors, and are making themselves new suits from some dungaree we bought at Val para i so. Lady Bra ey, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. xii. dung-bath (dung'bath), n. In dyeing , a bath used in mordanting, composed of water in which a small proportion of cows' or pigs' dung, or some substitute for it, has been di olved, with a certain amount of chalk to remove the acetic acid from the printed material. See dunging.