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i. [MONGER, 8.] To traffic, to deal in: used generally in composition with its object, and often in a bad sense. mồn-ger, s . [A. S. mangere =a dealer, a merchant, from mangian =to deal, to traffic, from mang =a crowd, an a embly; Icel. mangari =a monger, from manga =to trade; mang =barter; Dut. man ghere; O. H. Ger. manger i; Lat. mango a dealer in slaves.] 1. A trader, a dealer. It is now seldom or never used alone, but only in composition; as, fishmonger , ironmonger . *2. A small kind of trading ve el. *mon-gi-bell, s. [Ital. Mongibello , Montegibello =Mount Etna.) A volcano. "Such furnaces or mong i bells of fire."- Howell : Parly of Beasts, p. 134. Mõn-göl, Mõn-gole, a. & 8. [Native Tartar name.] IMG:content-1349.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Geog. (sing.): The same as MONGOL, B. 1. 2. Ethnol. (pl.): One of the five great races of the world discriminated and named by Blumenbach, and adopted by Cuvier when he reduced Blumenbach's five to three. The head is square; the face flattish, nearly as broad as long, the parts not well distinguished from each other; the eyelids narrow, obliquely turned up at their outer angle; the space between the eyes flat and broad, the nose flat, the cheeks projecting, the chin somewhat prominent. The hair is straight, the color black, that of the face and body yellowish (sometimes inaccurately called olive, which implies an admixture of green). It includes not merely the natives of Mongolia properly so called, but the Tartars, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Samoeides, the Cochin Chinese, the Burmese, the Tamuls, the Turks, the Hungarians, and the Finns. Called also Mongol ide, Mongoloids, and Turanians (q. v.). Mõn-göl-i-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., ., Mon golia ): Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ide.] Ethnol.: The name given by Dr. Latham to what Blumenbach, Cuvier, ., had called the Mongolian It is one of his three great divisions of race. mankind. [For its physical characteristics see MONGOLIAN.] Its languages Latham describes as aptotic and agglutinate, rarely with a truly amalgamate inflexion. Distribution: Asia, Polynesia. Influence upon mankind material rather than moral. He divides it into: 1. The Altaic Mongolidæ. (1) Seriform stock, includ ing the Chinese, the Tibetans, the Anamese, the Siamese, the Kambojians, the Burmese, ., and (2) the Turanian stock, with the Mongolian, Tung us i an, the Turk and Ugrian branches. 2. The Dioscurian Mongolidæ, including the Georgians, the Lesgians, the Mizjeji, the Iron, and the Circa ians. 2751 3. The Oceanic Mongol ide, with the Malay and the Negrito divisions. 4. The Hyperborean Mongolidæ, including the Samoeides, the Yeniseians, and the Yukuhiri. 5. The Peninsular, Mongolidæ, including the Japanese, the Kamtchatdales, . 6. The American Mongolidæ, including the North American Indians. 7. The Indian Mongolidæ, including the Tamuls, the Cingalese, the Indo-Gangetic aborigines, the Brahuis of Be loo chi stan, . Mon-go-16id, a. & 8. [English Mongol , and Gr. eidos =form.] A. As adj .: Belonging to or having the characteristics of the people described under B. "The Mongoloid families of the Old and New World." Oscar Peschel: Races of Man (Eng. ed.), p. 98. B. As substantive : Anthrop. (pl.): The races constituting one of the principal types of mankind distinguished by Huxley, characterized by a short, squat build, a yellow ish-brown complexion, black eyes, and straight, black hair; skull, brachycephalic, usually without prominent brow-ridges; flat nose and oblique eyes. "Of the three great stocks of mankind which extend from the western coast of the great Eurasiatic continent to its southern and eastern shores, the Mongoloids occupy a vast triangle, the base of which is the whole of eastern Asia, while its apex lies in Lapland. " - Huxley : Critiques (1873), p. 173. môn-goôs, mon-goôz', s . [MUNGOOS.] môn -grel, *mồn-grell, a. & s. (Probably for monger el, a dim in. from A. S. * mangian , meng an =to mix, to mingle; mang =a mixture.] A. As adjective : 1. Ord . Lang .: Of a mixed breed; not pure; de rived from various and not the best sources. "Traducing all religious, conscientious observers of them [rules and rites of the best church] as mongrell protestants and papists in masquerade."- South : Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 6. 2. Biol .: Arising from the cro ing of two varie IMG:content-1350.png:[blocks in formation] 2. Biol.: A cro between two varieties of the same species, as distinguished from a hybrid (q.v.), which is a cro between two distinct species. "This greater variability in mongrels than in hybrids does not seem at all surprising."-Darwin: Origin of Species (ed. 6th), p. 259.