mungo (2)

[Etym. doubtful.] Woolen cloth made of second-hand material. Old cloth and woolen goods are torn to pieces by cylindrical machines, and, being mixed with various proportions of pure wool, are re-spun and woven. Druggets and low-priced goods of but little strength are the result. [SHODDY.] "It occurred many years ago to an intelligent inhabitant of Yorkshire that it would be pocsible to restore old rags to the condition of wool. He communicated his capitalist, who said, 'That will not The inventor replied, in the Yorkshire dialect, That mun go,' anglicé , that must go. 'Very well,' said the capital. ist, we will make trial of your scheme, and the produce of our industry shall be called mungo'."-London Echo. mùn-goôş, mon-goôşe, s . (Mahratta moon goos, mung us; Fr. mangouste .] Zool.: Herpestes grise us , an ichneumon, common in many parts of India, and closely akin to the Egyptian species, H. ichneumon. The mungoos is a weasel-like animal, tawny yellowish-gray, the head with reddish and yellow rings, the colors so disposed as to produce an iron-gray hue. Length of body sixteen or seventeen inches, of tail four teen. It kills numerous birds, sucking their blood and leaving the body uneaten. It also with great adroitne seizes and kills many snakes, the formidable cobra included. Anglo-Indians have the notion that, when wounded by a venomous snake, it can heal itself by eating some remedial plant [OPHIORHIZA, OPHIOXYLON], but the alleged fact is very doubtful. snake-like mammal inhabiting the Him a lay as, feed The Crab Mungoos, Urva cancrivora , isa long, ing on crabs, and squirting a fetid fluid at any one who approaches it too near. ( Prof. Parker , .) mun-grěl, s. & a. [MONGREL.]