Bengal

prop. 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.
    4. 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.