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Mung (mŭng), n. [Hind.
mūng.] (Bot.) Green gram, a kind of pulse
(Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Mun"ga (?), n. (Zoöl.)
See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

Mung"corn` (?), n. Same as
Mangcorn.

Mun"go (?), n. A fibrous material
obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.

&fist; Mungo properly signifies the disintegrated rags of
woolen cloth, as distinguished from those of worsted, which form
shoddy. The distinction is very commonly disregarded. Beck
(Draper's Dict. ).

{ Mun"goose, Mun"goos } (?),
n. (Zoöl.) See
Mongoose.

Mun"grel (?), n. & a. See
Mongrel.

Mu*nic"i*pal (?), a. [L.
municipalis, fr. municipium a town, particularly in
Italy, which possessed the right of Roman citizenship, but was
governed by its own laws, a free town, fr.


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