These are the meanings of the letters MUNG when you unscramble them.
- Gnu (n.)
One of two species of large South African antelopes of the genus Catoblephas, having a mane and bushy tail, and curved horns in both sexes.
- Gum (n.)
A hive made of a section of a hollow gum tree; hence, any roughly made hive; also, a vessel or bin made of a hollow log.
- Gum (n.)
A rubber overshoe.
- Gum (n.)
A vegetable secretion of many trees or plants that hardens when it exudes, but is soluble in water; as, gum arabic; gum tragacanth; the gum of the cherry tree. Also, with less propriety, exudations that are not soluble in water; as, gum copal and gum sandarac, which are really resins.
- Gum (n.)
See Gum tree, below.
- Gum (n.)
The dense tissues which invest the teeth, and cover the adjacent parts of the jaws.
- Gum (v. i.)
To exude or from gum; to become gummy.
- Gum (v. t.)
To deepen and enlarge the spaces between the teeth of (a worn saw). See Gummer.
- Gum (v. t.)
To smear with gum; to close with gum; to unite or stiffen by gum or a gumlike substance; to make sticky with a gumlike substance.
- Gun ()
of Gin
- Gun (n.)
A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon.
- Gun (n.)
A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles by the explosion of gunpowder, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge behind, which is ignited by various means. Muskets, rifles, carbines, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary.
- Gun (n.)
Violent blasts of wind.
- Gun (v. i.)
To practice fowling or hunting small game; -- chiefly in participial form; as, to go gunning.
- Mug (n.)
A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.
- Mug (n.)
The face or mouth.
- Mun (n.)
The mouth.