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    Mogul , n. [From the Mongolian.]
    1. A person of the Mongolian race.
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    2. Specifically: Any of the Mongolian peoples who conquered parts of India and established an empire lasting from 1526 to 1857.  Also, any of their descendents.
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    3. (Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
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    4. A great personage; magnate; autocrat; as, an industrial mogul.
      Webster 1913 Suppl.
      Great Mogul, or  Grand Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindustan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century.  Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul or Moghul.
      Dryden.

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    Moghul, Mogul , prop. a. [See Mogul, n..] Of or pertaining to the Moguls{2}; as, The Taj Mahal, the most beautiful piece of Mogul architecture, was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a mausoleum for his favorite wife.
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