Mung (mng), n. [Hind. mng.] (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.
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. municeps an
inhabitant of a free town, a free citizen; munia official duties,
functions + capere to take: cf. F. municipal. Cf. Immunity, and
Capacoius.] 1. Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the
right of administering local government; as, municipal rights;
municipal officers.