Argal

{ ||Ar"gal (?), ||Ar"ga*li, } n. [Mongolian.] (Zoöl.) A species of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

☞ The bearded argali is the aoudad. See Aoudad. The name is also applied to the bighorn sheep of the Rocky Mountains. See Bighorn.

Ar"gal, adv. A ludicrous corruption of the Latin word ergo, therefore. Shak.

Ar"gal (?), n. Crude tartar. See Argol.