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Mungo

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Mun´go
n.1.A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, - a distinction often disregarded.


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Not always, though: Ledyard, the great New England traveller, and Mungo Park, the Scotch one; of all men, they possessed the least assurance in the parlor.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
He mused over the glory of the Mungo Parks, the Bruces, the Caillies, the Levaillants, and to some extent, I verily believe, of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe), whom he considered in no wise inferior to the rest.
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context
In the afternoon comes Thaka, possibly, to complain that old Mungo has stolen his new wife.
Tarzan of the Apes by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
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