Mogul
['moɡl]
Definition
(noun.) a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857.
(noun.) a bump on a ski slope.
Inputed by Katrina--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A person of the Mongolian race.
(n.) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
Edited by Debra
Definition
n. a Mongol or Mongolian esp. one of the followers of Baber the conqueror of India (1483-1530): a name applied to the best quality of playing-cards.—adj. pertaining to the Mogul Empire architecture &c.—adj. the title by which Europeans knew the Emperors of Delhi.
Typist: Willard
Examples
- India is still the empire of the Great Mogul, but the Great Mogul has been replaced by the crowned republic of Great Britain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The great Mogul, nominally their overlord, became in effect their puppet. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Coming down to the seventeenth century, we are told of the great Bijapur cast-iron gun, the Lord of the Plain, cast by the Mogul emperor Auremgzebe or by his foes the Mahrattas. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then Delhi rose to restore the empire of the Great Mogul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was taken over and continued by the British when they became the successors of the Mogul emperors. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The British monarch, indeed, now uses as his Indian title the title of the Mogul emperors, _Kaisar-i-Hind_. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The lame foreigner with the stick represented that you sent him; but he could represent (as far as that goes) that the Great Mogul sent him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- One age followed another until the first years of the eighteenth Christian century saw the reign of Aurungzebe, Emperor of the Moguls. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
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