BENGAL

bengal. Bengal, n. a slight Indian cotton-stuff

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Ben‐gal″ (�), n. 1. 1. A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
2. 2. A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
3. 3. Striped gingham, originally brought from Bengal; Bengal stripes.
Bengal light, a firework containing niter, sulphur, and antimony, and producing a sustained and vivid colored light, used in making signals and in pyrotechnics; — called also blue light. — Bengal stripes, a kind of cotton cloth woven with colored stripes. See Bengal, 3. — Bengal tiger. (Zoöl.). See Tiger.