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Bengal tiger   /bˈɛŋgəl tˈaɪgər/   Listen
proper noun
Bengal  n.  
1.
A province in India, giving its name to various stuffs, animals, etc.
2.
A thin stuff, made of silk and hair, originally brought from Bengal.
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. (Zool.). See Tiger.





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"Bengal tiger" Quotes from Famous Books



... grinding teeth like lions, cats, etc., and must have belonged to a race that lived on vegetables and flesh, and yet chewed the cud like a cow. Another called the Machairodus, was wholly carnivorous, and combined the size and weight of the grizzly bear with the jaws and teeth of the Bengal tiger. Most of the bones are yet in good preservation and highly mineralized. Dr. Owen says he saw all the bones of a skeleton eighteen feet long and nine in height; also a jaw of a similar animal, which measured five feet along the range ...
— Three Years on the Plains - Observations of Indians, 1867-1870 • Edmund B. Tuttle
... sketch of a very fine Bengal tiger in the collection, easily purchased permission to make studies of the animals during the hours when the exhibition was closed to the public; and as he went at every thing vigorously, he was before long in possession of ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various
... the climate of Bengal, he did not anticipate much curling in India, and that he would miss the "roaring game"; in fact, the only "roaring game" he was likely to come in contact with would probably take the unpleasant form of a Bengal tiger springing out at him. Lord Lansdowne went on to say, "Let us hope that it will not happen that your ex-Governor-General will be found, not pursuing the roaring game, ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... he did not anticipate much curling in India, and that he would miss the "roaring game"; in fact, the only "roaring game" he was likely to come in contact with would probably take the unpleasant form of a Bengal tiger springing out at him. Lord Lansdowne went on to say, "Let us hope that it will not happen that your ex-Governor-General will be found, not pursuing the roaring game, ...
— The Days Before Yesterday • Lord Frederick Hamilton
... now rampant at this last rebuff, and it seemed to rage about in my brain like a Bengal tiger in a net. ...
— To-morrow? • Victoria Cross


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