Mongolic (monggolik)

[= It. Mongolico; as Mongol + -ic. + -ic.] Of or pertaining to the Mon gols; Mongolian. monilicorn size of a cat. The name is commonly extended to all the related ichneumons of the subfamily Herpes tine, of which there are several genera and many species; and also to some of the Viverrinæ. All these belong to one family, Viver ride. See Herpestes, and cut at ichneumon, 2. A species of lemur or maki, Lemur mongoz, having a white color and the tail not ringed: also called mongoos lemur. See maki. mongrel (mung'grel), n. and a. [Early mod. E. also mungrel, mongril, mon grill, moungrel; This greater variability in mongrels than in hybrids does not seem at all surprising. For the parents of mongrels .. are varieties, and mostly domestic varieties, and this implies that there has been recent variability, which would often continue and be added to that arising from the act of cro ing. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 261. 2. Specifically, a dog of mixed breed. Hounds and greyhounds, mongrels , spaniels, curs, Shoughs, water-rugs, and dem i-wolves are clept All by the name of dogs. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 1. 93. The Ounce or wild Cat is as big as a Mungrel . S. Clarke , Four Plantations in America (1670), p. 33. 3. Anything of mixed breed; anything that is a mixture of incongruous elements. They say they are gentlemen, But they shew mungrels . Fletcher (and another ), Sea Voyage, iv. 1. Dioclesian the Emperour bestowed Elephant in a and the parties adioyning on the Blemi and Nobatæ, whose Religion was a mungrell of the Greekish, Egyptian, and their own. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 586. His two faculties of serving-man and solicitor should compound into one mongrel . Milton , Col aster i on. II. a. Of a mixed or impure breed; begotten or made up of different kinds: usually in a disreputable sense. There is a mongrel dialect, composed of Italian and French, and some Spanish words are also in it; which they call Franco. Howell , Forreine Travell, p. 53. It was hard to imagine Richard Jekyll... partaking of amorous dalliance from the same dish with a mongrel gipsy. J. W. Palmer, After his Kind, p. 224. mongrelt, v . t . [Formerly also mungrel , moungrel; Shal our blood be moungreld with the corruption of a stragling French? Marston, What you Will, i. 1. mongrelism (mung'grel-izm), n. [ mongrel + -ism.] Mixture of different breeds; the being of mixed breeds. He [F. Galton] continued his experiments [of transfu sion of blood in rabbits) on a still larger scale for two more generations, without any sign of mongrelism showing itself in the very numerous offspring. Darwin , Var. of Animals and Plants, p. 350. mo mongrelize (mung'grel-iz), v . t .; pret. and pp. mongrelized , ppr. mongrelizing . [ mongrel + -ize .] To make mongrel; give a mongrel nature or character to. How.. comes it that such a vast number of the seed. lings are mongrelized? I suspect that it must arise from the pollen of a distinct variety having a prepotent effect over a flower's own pollen, and that this is part of the general law of good being derived from the intercro ing of distinct individuals of the same species. Darwin , Origin of Species, p. 101. mongrel-skate (mung'grel-skāt), n. The angel-fish, Squat in a angelus . [Local, Eng.] as akin to them, according to the cla ification of certain authorities. Mongolioid (mong-go'li Mongolioid (mong-gōʻli-oid), a . and n. [ Mon- gol ( Mongolian ) + -oid.] Mongols; having Mongolian characteristics. n ) + -oid.] I. a. Resembling the II. n. One having physical characters like those of the typical Mongols (including Chinese, Japanese, etc.). Huxley. Mongoloid (mong'go-loid), a. and n. [ +-oid.] Same as Mongolioid. mongoos, mungoos (mong'-, mung'gös), n. [Also written mongoose, mongooz, mongouz, mongoz, monguz, moong us, mungoose, etc.; F. mongouz, NL. specific name mongoz; easily domesticated, it is kept in many houses in Hin ichneumon of India, Herpestes grise us. Being dust an to rid them of reptiles and other vermin, as rats, mice, etc. It has been said that it neutralizes the poison of snakes, which it fearle ly attacks, by eating, during its contests with them, the Ophiorhiza Mungos, but its immunity is really due to the extreme celerity of its movements. It is of a gray color, flecked with black, and about the IMG:content-0873.png:[blocks in formation]