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mungo


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mungo  \Mun"go\,  n. 
  A  fibrous  material  obtained  by  deviling  rags  or  the  remnants 
  of  woolen  goods. 
 
  Note:  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.  ). 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mungo  \Mun"go\,  n. 
  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.