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pl. (Ethnol.) One of the great races of man,
including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and
the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other
parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch
of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of
Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the
Kalmuks.

{ Mon"goose, Mon"goos } (?),
n. (Zoöl.) A species of ichneumon
(Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other
allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus
fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos,
mungous.]

Mon"grel (?), n. [Prob. shortened fr.
mongrel, and akin to AS. mengan to mix, and E.
mingle. See Mingle.] The progeny resulting from a
cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed
breed. Drayton.

Mon"grel, a. 1.
(Zoöl.) Not of a pure breed.

2. Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel
language.

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