Definition of "mongoos" []

• Archaic form of mongoose. (noun)

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• "The introduction of the Indian mongoos, or _mangouste_ (ichneumon), proved futile as a means of repressing the evil."
• "At Johanna, or possibly at St. Augustine's, some of our officers and men, moved by that queer propensity of mankind to acquire strange objects, however useless, had bought animals of the kind called mongoos."
• "It remains for future investigation to determine how far this conjecture is founded in truth; and whether in the blood of the mongoos there exists any element or quality which acts as a prophylactic."