MANGER

The trough in which is placed the corn or other short food given to live stock, and more especially to horses. See Rack. Ma'nger. The space near the hawse holes, bounded on the upper side by a partition acro the bows, called the manger board, to receive the water while it enters the hawse holes and prevent it from flooding the deck. MANGO (Mangos marum, in the Tamul language of India), is a very large fruit-tree, inhabiting the tropical parts of Asia, throughout all which it is as extensively cultivated as the apple and pear trees are in Europe. Old specimens have been seen with a trunk from ten to fifteen feet in circumference.The fruit is something like a nectarine, but more compre ed, longer, and more curved. It contains a large stone, covered with coarse fibres, which lose themselves in the succulent flesh. The wild and inferior varieties of this fruit taste so strongly of turpentine as to be wholly unfit for use by Europe ans; but in the fine varieties this flavour is replaced by a rich sugary quality, which renders it very delicious. In this country the mango has rarely ripened its fruit, but it is common in the shops in a pickled state. The fruit of the Mangifera Indica, a tree cultivated in Asia, is also called mango. [s. 728]