moneyless

* Company of Moneyers: English public officers under whose superintendence the various moneys were coined at the Mint. The office was abolished in 1837.

mon-ey-less, a. [Eng. money; -less.] Destitute of money; having no money; penniless.

"Paltring the free and moneyless power of discipline with a carnal satisfaction by the purse."-Milton: Reason of Church Government, bk. ii., ch. iii.

money-wort, s. [Eng. money, and wort.] Bot.: (1) Lysimachia nummularia, a prostrate plant, with opposite, ovate, cordate, or orbicular leaves; called also Creeping Jenny and Herb Twopence: (2) Dioscorea nummularia; (3) Taviernia nummularia.

Cornish Moneywort is Sibthorpia europæɑ. *mồǹ ́-gal, s. [MULLION.]

mong-corn, *mong-corne, s. [MANG-CORN.] Mixed corn or grain, as wheat and rye; maslin. "A jolly rounding of a whole foote broad From off the mongcorne heape shall Trebius load." Bp. Hall: Satires, bk. v., sat. 2.

môn ́-ger, v. i. [MONGER, 8.] To traffic, to deal in: used generally in composition with its object,

and often in a bad sense.

mồn-ger,s. [A. S. mangere=a dealer, a mer chant, from mangian to deal, to traffic, from mang =a crowd, an assembly; Icel. mangari=a monger, from manga to trade; mang-barter; Dut. manghere; O. H. Ger. mangeri; Lat. mango-a dealer in slaves.]

1. A trader, a dealer. It is now seldom or never used alone, but only in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger.

*2. A small kind of trading vessel.

*mon-gi-bell, s. [Ital. Mongibello, Montegibello =Mount Etna.] A volcano.

"Such furnaces or mongibells of fire."-Howell: Parly of Beasts, p. 134.

Mon -gol, Mŏñ'-gŏle, a. & 8. [Native Tartar name.]

A. As adjective: 1. Geog., &c.: Of or belonging to Mongolia, a wide region between 37° and 50° N. lat. and 88 and 25 E. long., constituting the western part of the Chinese empire. The great Mongol race divides into three nations, the Kalmucs, Buriats, and the Proper Mongols.

12. Ethnol.: Of or belonging to the Mongolian race or Mongolidæ (q. v.).

B. As substantive:

1. An inhabitant of Mongolia.

†2. The Mongolian race. [MONGOLIAN.] Mon-gōl-1-an, s.

[Mod. Lat. Mongolia, from Mongol (q. v.); Eng. suff. -an.] A. As adjective:

1. Ord. Lang.: The same as MONGOL, A. 1. 2. Philol.: An epithet sometimes applied to the whole class of Turanian tongues; sometimes specifically applied to that group spoken by the Kalmucks and other tribes from Thibet to China. B. As substantive:

1. Geog. (sing.): The same as MONGOL, B. 1.

2. Ethnol. (pl.): One of the five great races of the world discriminated and named by Blumenbach, and adopted by Cuvier when he reduced Blumenbach's five to three. The head is square; the face flattish, nearly as broad as long, the parts not well distinguished from each other; the eyelids narrow, obliquely turned up at their outer angle; the space between the eyes flat and broad, the nose flat, the cheeks projecting, the chin somewhat prominent. The hair is straight, the color black, that of the face and body yellowish (sometimes inaccurately called olive, which implies an admixture of green). It includes not merely the natives of Mongolia properly so called, but the Tartars, the Chinese, the Japanese, the Samoeides, the Cochin Chinese the Burmese, the Tamuls, the Turks, the Hungarians, and the Finns. Called also Mongolidæ, Mongoloids, and Turanians (q. v.).

Mon-gŏl-i-dæ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., &c., Mongolia); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -ido.] Ethnol.: The name given by Dr. Latham to what Blumenbach, Cuvier, &c., had called the Mongolian race. It is one of his three great divisions of mankind. [For its physical characteristics see MONGOLIAN.] Its languages Latham describes as aptotic and agglutinate, rarely with a truly amaigam te inflexion. Distribution: Asia, Polynesia. Influence upon mankind material rather than moral. He divides it into:

1. The Altaic Mongolidæ. (1) Seriform stock, including the Chinese, the Tibetans, the Anamese, the Siamese, the Kambojians, the Burmese, &c., and (2) the Turanian stock, with the Mongolian, Tungusian, the Turk and Ugrian branches.

2. The Dioscurian Mongolidæ, including the Georgians, the Lesgians, the Mizjeji, the Iron, and the Cir

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3. The Oceanic Mongolidæ, with the Malay and the Negrito divisions.

4. The Hyperborean Mongolidæ, including the Samoeides, the Yeniseians, and the Yukuhiri.

5. The Peninsular, Mongolidæ, including the Japanese, the Kamtchatdales, &c.

6. The American Mongolidæ, including the North American Indians.

7. The Indian Mongolidæ, including the Tamuls, the Cingalese, the Indo-Gangetic aborigines, the Brahuis of Beloochistan, &c.

Mon-go-loid, a. & s. [English Mongol, and Gr. eidos-form.]

A. As adj.: Belonging to or having the characteristics of the people described under B. "The Mongoloid families of the Old and New World."Oscar Peschel: Races of Man (Eng. ed.), p. 98. B. As substantive:

Anthrop. (pl.): The races constituting one of the principal types of mankind distinguished by Huxley, characterized by a short, squat build, a yellow. ish-brown complexion, black eyes, and straight, black hair; skull, brachycephalic, usually without prominent brow-ridges; flat nose and oblique eyes. "Of the three great stocks of mankind which extend from the western coast of the great Eurasiatic continent to its southern and eastern shores, the Mongoloids occupy a vast triangle, the base of which is the whole of eastern Asia, while its apex lies in Lapland."-Huxley: Critiques (1873), p. 173.

mon-goôs', môǹ-goôz', s. [MUNGOOS.] mỗǹ -grel, *möǹ-grell, a. & 8. [Probably for monger el, a dimin. from A. S. *mangian, mengan to mix, to mingle; mang=a mixture.] A. As adjective:

1. Ord. Lang.: Of a mixed breed; not pure; de rived from various and not the best sources.

"Traducing all religious, conscientious observers of them [rules and rites of the best church] as mongrell protestants and papists in masquerade."-South: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 6.

2. Biol.: Arising from the crossing of two varieties. "Fertility of varieties, when crossed, and of their mongrel offspring, not universal."—Darwin: Origin of Species (ed. 6th), p. 255.

B. As substantive:

Insects (1840), pp. 115, 311.)

mŏ-nil' -Iform, a. [Latin monile = a necklace, and forma =form, shape; French moniliforme.]

2

1

Moniliform.

boll, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, -tian -cian,

"An auncient booke, hight Briton moniments." Spenser: F. Q., II. ix. 59. mo-nim -I-a, s. [Gr. monimos staying in one place, abiding, lasting; mone-staying; menō=to stay, to remain.]

Bot.: The typical genus of the order Monimiace. The carpels have each one pendulous ovule, enclosed by the tube of the calyx, which becomes. berry-like. It consists of two or three trees or shrubs from the Mauritius.

mo-nĭm-i-ā'-çe-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. monimi(a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. -acea.]

Bot. (pl.): Monimiads; an order of Diclinous Exogens, tribe Menispermales. It consists of aro matic trees or shrubs, with opposite exstipulate leaves and axillary, unisexual, apetalous flowers. Calyx somewhat globose, the segments sometimes in more rows than one and petaloid; stamens, indefinite, covering the inside of the calyx-tube; ovules, several, superior, each one-celled; fruit, several one-seeded nuts, inclosed within the enlarged calyx. Found chiefly in South America and the southern hemisphere. Known genera, eight; species, forty (?). (Lindley.)

mo-nim'-1-ǎds, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. monimia, and Eng., &c., pl. suff. -ads.] Bot.: The name given by Lindley to the order Monimiaceae (q. v.).

mō-nim-o-lite, s. [Gr. monimos constant, permanent, and lithos=stone.]

Min.: A tetragonal mineral, occurring in octahedrons, also massive. Hardness, 45-5; specific gravity, 5'94; luster, submetallic to greasy; color, yellow. Composition: Antimonic acid, 40°29; protoxide of lead, 42:40; protoxides of iron and manganese, 620; lime, 759; magnesia, 3.25 99 73, giv ing the formula, (PbO,FeO,MnO,CaO,MgO)4,SbO5. Found at Pajsberg and Longban, Wermland, Sweden.

mon'-ing, s. [Chin.] A kind of fine black tea. mon'-I-plies, s. [Scot. mony-many, and Eng. ply a fold.] The third division of the complex

stomach of ruminants; the omasum.

*mon'-Ish, v. t. [ADMONISH.] To admonish, to

(2) (See extract.)

"Scientific materialism, which is identical with our monism, affirms in reality no more than that everything in the world goes on naturally-that every effect has its cause and every cause its effect. It therefore assigns to causal law-that is, the law of a necessary connection between cause and effect-its place over the entire series of phenomena that can be known. At the same time, it positively rejects every belief in the miraculous, and every conception, in whatever form it appears, of supernatural processes. Accordingly, nowhere in the wholedomain of human knowledge does it recognize metaphysics, but throughout only physics; through it the inseparable connection between matter, form, and forcebecomes self-evident."-Haeckel: Hist. Creation, i. 35.

2. Biol. The same as MONOGENESIS (q. v.). mon'-ist, s. [MONISM.] A supporter or advocate of any form of monism.

mon-ist-ic, a. [MONISM.] Of or pertaining to monism; pertaining to or involving oneness or unity; pertaining to or derived from a single

source.

mo-nite, s. [After the island of Mona, Greater Antilles, where found; suff. -ite (Min.).]

Min.: A massive and slightly coherent mineral. Hardness, below 2; specific gravity, 21; snowwhite; fracture, earthy, dull. Composition: Phosphoric acid, 38 86; lime, 48'64; water, 6:59. Formula, Ca3P2O8+H2O. It occurs with monetite (q. v.) in

gypsum.

sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. -sious

monition

mo-ni-tion,*mo-ni-cion, s. [Fr. monition, from Lat. monitionem, accus. of monitio a reminding, from monitus, pa. par. of moneo to remind, to admonish, to warn; Sp. monicion: Ital. monizione.] I. Ordinary Language:

1. An admonition, a warning, a caution; instruction by way of caution or admonition.

"He mistook the impulses of his pride and resentment for the monitions of conscience."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng.,

ch. xiv.

2. Information, indication.

"We have no visible monition of the returns of any other periods, such as we have of the day, by successive light and darkness."-Holder: On Time,

II. Law: A summons or citation.

mon -i-tive, a. [Lat. monitus, pa. par. of moneo to remind, to admonish.] Admonitory, monitory, warning; containing or giving admonition.

"Considering the needfulness and usefulness of them [evils] in respect to public benefit (as they are exemplary and monitive) and their wholesomeness for particular correction and cure."-Barrow: Sermons, ii. 12.

mon'-I-tor, s. [Latin, from monitus, pa. par. of moneo-to remind, to admonish; Fr. moniteur; Sp. monitor; Ital. monitore.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. One who warns of faults or informs of duty; one who admonishes; an admonisher; one who instructs by way of caution or admonition.

"To be more serious, new fashions, follies, and vices

make new monitors necessary in every age."--Goldsmith: Polite Learning, ch. x.

2. A senior pupil in a school, selected to look after the junior pupils in the absence of the principal; a pupil appointed to superintend other pupils; a pupil-teacher.

*3. A back-board. (Cowper: Task, ii. 585.) II. Technically:

1. Mil.: An iron-clad railway-truck carrying a

My right flank swept the railroad monitor."-Century Magazine, July, 1885, p. 460. 2. Naval: The name given by Mr. John Ericsson, of New York, in 1861, to a vessel designed to meet the requirements of the United States Navy Department, which called for "an ironclad vessel of small dimensions, capable of navigating the

Monitor.

Southern rivers, and absolutely impregnable against the ordnance possessed by the Southern States.' The whole structure was like a raft on the water, with a revolving turret for the armament of 11-inch Dahlgrens.

"It is a misnomer to style all turreted vessels monitors, for they are only such in the one point of resemblance, that the battery is inclosed in a turret."-Hamersley: Naval Cyclopædia.

3. Zool. The typical genus of the family Monitoridae. The teeth are sharp and conical. Found only in the Old World. Monitor or Varanus niloti cus, the Monitor of the Nile, is five or six feet long. It is said to devour the eggs of the crocodile. It is often represented on the Egyptian monuments. The old genus Monitor is now often sub-divided, M. niloticus, M. albogularis, M. dracaena being trans ferred to Varanus (q. v.), M. bivittatus being named Varanus or Hydrosaurus salvator, and M. arenarius, Psammosaurus arenarius.

monitor-car, s.

Rail.: A car having a central longitudinal raised portion in the roof, on the sides of which portion are openings for ventilation and panes for light. mon-i-tör -I-al, a. [Eng. monitor; -ial.] *1. Monitory, admonitory.

2. Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors. "These objections are against the monitorial system, and not against the occasional use of monitors."-Robinson. Method and Organization (1863), p. 405.

3. Performed by monitors.

4. Conducted or taught by monitors: as, a monitorial school. [LANCASTERIAN-SYSTEM.]

mon-i-tör-i-al-ly, adv. [Eng. monitorial; -ly.] In a monitorial manner; by means of monitors; like a monitor.

mon-i-tor-I-dæ, s. pl. [Lat., &c., monitor: fem. pl. adj. suff. -idœ.}

Zool.: A lacertine family of the sub-order Cionocrania. The scales of the belly are quadrangular, in cross bands; on back and tail rhombic. Tongue long, exsertile, ending in two long filaments, sheathed at the base. The head has small polygonal shields. The family includes the largest lizards

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known, from the African, Indian, and Australian regions. Genera: Monitor (q. v.), sometimes called Varanus; Psammosaurus, Odatria, and Hydro,

saurus.

mon -I-tor-ship, s. [Eng. monitor; -ship.] The post or position of a monitor. mon-i-tor-y, a. & s. [Latin monitorius, from monitus, pa. par. of moneo-to remind, to admonish; Fr. monitoire; Sp. & Ital. monitorio.]

A. As adj.: Warning; giving warning or admonition; admonitory.

"Pause here, and think; a monitory rhyme Demands one moment of thy fleeting time." Cowper: Inscription for the Tomb of Mr. Hamilton. *B. As subst.: A warning, an admonition, a monition.

broken the privilege of holy church, and taken his son." "The Pope writ a monitory to him, for that he had -Bacon: Apothegms.

ess.] A female monitor or admonisher. mon-1-tress, *mon'-I-trix, 8. [Eng. monitor;

"And she, whose veil receives the shower, Is altered too, and knows her power: Assumes a monitress's pride." Scott: Rokeby, iv. 12. mo-niz-I-a, subst. [Named by Mr. Lowe after M. Monitz, a botanist of Madeira.]

Bot.: A genus of Umbelliferæ, family Thapside. Monizia edulis, the carrot-tree of Madeira, has a gnarled woody stem, and triangular decompound leaves. It grows on precipices in Deserta Grande, an uninhabited Island near Madeira. The root is

eaten raw or boiled.

monk, s. [A. S. munec, munuc, from Lat. monachus a monk, from Gr. monachos=(a.) living alone, solitary; (8.) a monk, from monos alone, single; Dut. & Sw. munk; Icel. munkr; O. H. Ger. munich; M. H. Ger. munich, münech; Ger. monch; Ital. monaco; Sp. & Port. monge; O. Fr. moigne; Fr. moine.]

1. Church Hist.: A male religious living in community (except the Chartreux and Camaldoli, who are strictly solitary), bound by rule and practicing the counsels of perfection. The name was in universal use till the rise of the friars in the thirteenth century, and belongs properly to none but members of the Benedictine Order and its offshoots, though it is often loosely applied to any male religious, as in the line

"The solitary monk that shook the world."

Montgomery: Luther.

2. Print.: A blacker portion in a printed sheet; a dark patch. A blackened, wasted impression. monk-bat, s.

The name Monk-bat was given to this species by Zool.: Molossus nasutus, the Smoky Mastiff-bat. Mr. Gosse, from a curious habit of segregation on the part of the males.

monk-bird, 8. [FRIAR-BIRD.] monk-fish, s.

fish is given from the fancied resemblance of the Ichthy.: Squatina angelus. The name of Monkhead to a monk's cowl. Called also Angel-fish, Shark-ray, and Kingston. (Yarrell.)

monk-flower, monk's-flower, s. Bot.: The genus Monacanthus. monk-seal, s.

the genus Monachus (q.v.). Their mild disposition Zool.: Monachus albiventer, the sole species of and their teachableness have led to their frequent exhibition; the "talking fish" of showmen generally belong to this species.

monk-seam, s.

1. Naut.: A double seam of a sail made by overlapping selvages, and sewing both edges. 2. The mark left on a ball or bullet at the junction of its two halves by the mold. monk's-cowl, s.

Bot.: The genus Pterygodium. monk's-head, 8.

Bot.: A plant of the genus Leontodon. monk's-hood, s. [MONKSHOOD.] monk's-rhubarb, s.

Bot.: A species of dock (Rumex alpinus); a perennial plant, two to four feet high, with a stout rootstock. Its roots are used in medicine. monk -ĕr-, *monk-er-ie, s. [Eng. monk; -ery.] 1. Monastic life; monasticism; monastic practices. "Neither do I meddle with their evangelical perfection

of vows, nor the dangerous servitude of their rash and impotent votaries, nor the inconveniences of their monkery."-Hall: No Peace with Rome, § 13.

2. A monastery; the inhabitants of a monastery. 3. The country; rural districts. (Slang.) 4. Tramps, vagrants. (Slang.)

monkey-flower

monkey, *monk-ie, *munk-ey, *munk-ie, s. [A corrupt. of O. Ital. monicchio a monkey; dimin. of mona=an ape, a monkey; Ital. monna; Sp. mona; Port. mona a she-monkey; Sp. & Port. mono a monkey; Ital. monna is a contraction of madonna lady, mistress.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. Lit. In the same sense as II. 3. 2. Figuratively:

(1) A term applied to a child or young person in real or pretended disapproval.

"This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded that I will marry her."-Shakesp.: Othello, iv. 1.” (2) A sum of £500. (Eng. racing slang.) "The Grand Hurdle Handicap, the added money to which is a 'monkey.'"-London Daily Chronicle. (3) A hod. (Bricklayer's slang.) (4) A padlock. (Prison slang.) (5) The instrument which drives a rocket. (Military slang.)

II. Technically:

1. Forging: A vertical hammer, consisting of a long bar of iron, running loosely through an eye, several feet above the anvil, and terminating at the foot of a mass of iron, called the ram. The shaft is raised by a chain and drum driven by the engine is regulated to drop the monkey at the required and has an automatic releasing apparatus, whiel height, say with a range of from two to five feet. The monkey has a horizontal range of about twenty inches, and is made to drop upon the spot required by means of guy-rods in the hands of two workmen.

2. Pile-driving: The weight of a pile or post driver, which is raised by a grapple and chain, and, being detached, is allowed to fall in its guides onto the head of the pile. The weight is attached to the chain by a dog, which is caused to relax its grip by a trigger, or by coming in contact with a stop placed at the required height. 3. Zoology:

(1) Sing.: A popular name for any one of the quadrumanous mammals having a well-developed tail, those wanting tails being called apes.

(2) A quadrumanous mammal having a tail and callosities, but no cheek pouches, as distinguished from a baboon, which has both, and an ape, which, besides being tailless, has neither. The Capuchin Monkey is the genus Cebus; the Diana Monkey, Cercopithecus diana; the Howling Monkey is the genus Mycetes; the Proboscis Monkey is Semnopithecus larvatus; the Sacred Monkey, S. entellus [HUNOOMAN]; the Silver-haired Monkey, Lagothrix humboldtii; and the Spider Monkeys, the genus Ateles.

(3) Pl.: The mammalian order Quadrumana the Platyrhine Monkeys are confined to America. (q. v.). The Strepsirhine Monkeys are the Lemurs, and the Catarhine Monkeys are found only in the Old World.

¶ (1) Monkey's allowance: Blows instead of alms; more kicks than pennies.

(2) To get or have one's monkey up: To get or be in a bad temper; to fly into a passion.

(3) To suck the monkey: A term used among seamen for drinking rum out of cocoanuts, the milk having been poured out and the liquor substituted. Also, to suck liquor out of a cask by means of a straw introduced through a hole made with a gimlet.

"I didn't peach at Barbadoes when the men sucked the monkey.”—Marryat: Peter Simple, ch. lvii. monkey-block, s.

Nautical:

1. A single block strapped to a bridge-piece, which is bolted to the deck or other object. 2. A block nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchantmen, to lead the buntlines through. monkey-board, s. The step at the rear of an omnibus on which the conductor stands. monkey-boat, s.

1. A small boat used in the docks.

2. A long, narrow boat, used on canals. [FLYBOAT.]

monkey-cup, s. [MONKEY'S CUP.]

monkey-engine, s. A form of pile-driver, having a monkey or ram weighing about 400 pounds, moving in a wooden frame. The monkey is held by a staple in a pair of tongs, and is drawn up 10 or 15 feet, or higher, if necessary, by means of a winch. At the top of the lift the handles of the tongs come into contact with two inclined planes, which cause being then lowered, become self-engaged with the the tongs to open and drop the monkey. The tongs, staple, and so the work proceeds. The pile-heads are hardened by fire to withstand concussion. [PILE-DRIVER.]

monkey-flower, s.

Bot. The genus Mimulus (q. v.).

The Gaping Monkey-flower is Mimulus ringens; the Orange Monkey-flower or Orange-flower is pine, pit, sïre, sir, marîne; gō, pot,

monkey-hammer

M.glutinosa; the Yellow-flowered Monkey-flower is M.luteus; the Scarlet Monkey-flower, M. cardinalis; the Rosy-scarlet Monkey-flower, M. rosea-cardinalis.

monkey-hammer, s. A drop-press in which the hammer is a falling weight; called by the same name as the hammer of a pile-driving machine. [OLIVER.]

monkey-jacket, s. A short close-fitting jacket of stout material, worn by sailors, &c.

monkey-pot, s.

Bot.: The woody pericarp of Lecythis, especially of Lecythis ollaria.

monkey-press, 8. A hammer in which the driver consists of a monkey which is alternately raised and droped, sliding in guides. One form of power-hammer.

monkey-pump, 8. The sailor's name for the sucking straw introduced at a gimlet-hole in a wine or spirit cask.

monkey-puzzle, s.

Bot.: Araucaria imbricata. monkey-rail, s.

Naut.: A supplementary rail, above and lighter than the quarter-rail.

monkey-shines, s. Boyish tricks; merry pranks. monkey-stove, s. A small domestic stove. monkey-tail, s. A small crow-bar used by naval

gunners.

monkey-wrench, s. A wrench with a movable jaw, which can be adjusted by a screw in the handle to the size of the nut to be turned. monkey's bread, s.

monobasic-acid, 8.

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Chem.: An acid in which one atom of hydrogen only is capable of displacement by one equivalent of a monad metal, when presented to it in the form of a hydrate.

mon-o brom-, in comp. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. brom (ine).] Containing one atom of bromine. monobrom-butylene, s.

Chem.: CH3CH2CBr°CH2. A colorless oil formed from butylene dibromide by the action of alcoholic potassic hydrate. It boils at 150, and unites with two atoms of bromine to form butenyl tribromide. mon-o car-bon-ic, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. carbonic.]

Chem.: Containing but one carboxyl group; said of some acids, &c., as, acetic acid, &c. mon-o car-di-ăn, a. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. kaddia=the heart.]

Zool. Having a single heart, as in the case of some fishes.

tmon-d-carp, †mon-o-carp-on, subst. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. karpos=fruit; Fr. monocarpe.] Bot. A plant which bears fruit but once. [MONOCARPOUS.]

mon-o-car-pěl-lar-й, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng.

monkey's cup, monkey cup, s.

Bot.; The genus Nepenthes; specially Nepenthes distillatoria.

monkey's dinner-bell, s.

Bot.: Lecythis ollaria and L. minor.

monkey; to ape.

"Monkeying the Lord."

Mrs. Browning: Tale of Villafranca. To monkey with: To meddle with; to fool with. (Slang.)

mon -key-işm, s. [English monkey; -ism.] Resemblance to a monkey in habits, disposition, or actions.

monk-hood, s. [Eng. monk; -hood.] The character or condition of a monk.

*monk-ing, a. [Eng. monk-; -ing.] Monkish,

"Monasteries and other monking receptacles." - Coleridge. (Annandale.)

monk-ish, *monk-ysh, adj. [Eng. monk; -ish.] Pertaining to a monk or monks; monastic.

"Nought interrupts the riot, though in lieu Of true devotion monkish incense burns." Byron: Childe Harold, i. 67. monk-Ish-ness, s. [Eng. monkish; -ness.] The quality or state of being monkish.

monk-ly, *munke-lye, adj. [Eng. monk; -ly.] Monkish.

"The chastysyng of his munkelye membres."-Sir T. More: Works, p. 397.

known, Monocentris japonicus, from the seas off Japan and the Mauritius. It is not common, nor does it attain any size. (Günther.)

mon o çeph-a-loŭs, a. [Gr. monokephalos.] 1. Science: Having one head, but two distinct, or sometimes blended, bodies.

2. Bot. Having a single head of flowers. mon-o-çeph-a-lŭs (pl. mon-ô-çĕph ́-a-lî), 8. [Gr. monos-single, and kephale the head.] A compound monster, having one head and two bodies united more or less intimately.

mo-noç -êr-Ŏs, *mô-nõç -ẽr-ot, s. [Lat., from Gr. monokerōs, from monos = single, and keras=a horn.]

Bot.: The bark of the root of Monnina poly; stachya and M. salicifolia, when pounded and molded in a fresh state into balls, or when kept till dry, is detergent.

mỏ -nō, s. [Native name in Guatemala.] Zool.: Mycetes villosus, the Black Howler, a black monkey with a voice which may be heard two miles off. The Indians eat its flesh. It is found in forests from East Guatemala to Paraguay. [HoWLER.] mon-ō-, pref. [MON-, pref.] mono-compounds, s. pl.

Chem.: A term applied to compounds containing one atom of the element specified, e. g., CH CLO2, mono-chloracetic acid; CHHN, mono-phenyla

mine.

mon-o-bās -Ic, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. basic.] Soo the compound.)

ing in a prominent spine, or tooth, at the lower or anterior end of the outer lip.

mon o chla-mỹd -ě·æ, s. pl. [Pref. mono-, Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff. chlamys (genit.Cdos)= = a cloak or mantle; and

in 1838 for a class of Exogens having the perianth Bot.: The name introduced by Professor Perleb simple, incomplete, or wanting. Hooker and Arnott adopt the name, making the dicotyledonous or exogonous plants a class and Monochlamydeæ a subclass.

mon o-chla-mỹd'-ě-oùs, a. [Mod. Lat. monochlamydea); Eng. suff. ois.] Bot. Having but one floral envelope; having a calyx but no corolla.

mon o-chlör-a-çět -Ic, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. chloracetic.] Derived from chlorine and acetic acid.

monochloracetic-acid, s.

Chem.: C2H3C1O2=CH2Cl•COOH. Produced by the action of chlorine on boiling glacial acetic acid chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this;

1. An ancient instrument with one string which was played as a guitar. It grew into a manichord, in which numerous strings were played by quills. 2. A single string stretched across a board or moved at pleasure. By placing under the string a soundboard, under which a movable bridge can be required for the production of just intervals, the diagram of the proportionate lengths of string ear can be trained and experiments can be made. It was also called, or rather the results obtained from it were called, the harmonical canon. It is said to have been invented by Pythagoras.

mon o-chör -1-a, s. [Greek monos alone, and choros a dancer.]

vaginalis is given by the native Indian doctors in liver complaints and disorders of the stomach.

Botany: A genus of Pontederaceæ. Monochoria

món ố chrõ mặt -Ic, a. [Gr. monos=alone, sing gle, and chroma = color; Fr. monochromatique.] Consisting of one color; presenting rays of light of

Optics: The same as HOMOGENEOUS-LIGHT (q. v.) mon-o chrome, s. [Gr. monos alone, single, liefs, in tints of one color only, relieved by light and chroma=a color.] Art: A painting executed in imitation of bas-reand shade.

mon-o-chrō'-mic, a. [Gr. monochromos=of one color.] Containing or made in a single color, as, a monochromic painting.

monochrom y, s. [Eng. monochrom (e); -y.] The art of painting in monochrome.

mon o-chron-ic, a. [Gr. monos alone, single, chronos-time.]

1. Ord. Lang. Of or pertaining to one and the same time; existing at the same time; contemporaneous.

t2. Geol. (of strata, &c.): Contemporaneous; deposited at or about the same time.

mon-o-çil-I-a-těd, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. ciliated (q. v.).] Furnished with one cilium.

mon-o-çir-rhus, s. [Pref. mono-, and Latin cirrus a curl, a tendril.]

Ichthy. An acanthopterygian genus family Polycontrida (q. v.). One (possibly two) species known, from the Atlantic rivers of tropical America. They are small fishes, and feed upon aquatic insects. cn eye.] A glass or lens for one eye. mon -o-cle. s. [Pref. mon (o), and Lat. oculus=

mon-o-clin-al, a. [Pref. mono-; Gr. klinō=to make to bend.]

Geol. Having one single dip, persistent for a considerable distance.

mon o-clin'-Iic, mon-oc-lin-ate, CLINAL.]

a. [MONOMin. & Crystal.: Inclining in one direction. monoclinic-system, s.

lateral axes at right angles to one another, one of Min. & Crystal. Having two of the axial intersections rectangular and one oblique; having the them, moreover, being oblique to the vertical axis and the other at right angles to it.

mon-o-cli-nō-hẽ -dric, a. [Pref. mono-; Gr. klino to bend, and hedra a seat, a base.] The same as MONOCLINIC (q. v.).

†mon-oc-11-nous, a. [MONOCLINAL.]

Bot. Having the two sexes in the same flower; hermaphrodite.

mon-o-co-tyl, s. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. kotyle= anything hollow.]

Bot.: Any plant having but one cotyledon.
mon-oc-o-tyle, a. [MONOCOTYLEDON.]
Bot.: The same as MONOCOTYLEDONOUS (q. v.).
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1. Sing. A plant having a single cotyledon, or seed leaf; a plant belonging to the Monocotyledones (q. v.).

2. Pl.: The English name of the Monocotyledones (q. v.).

món-ở-cắt-j-lẽ-dòn-ēg, tmòn-ở-cot-ý-lẽ-đôně æ, s. pl. [Pref. mono-; Lat. cotyledon (q.v.), and masc. or fem. pl. adj. suff. -es, or fem. -eœ.] Bot: The first form was used by Jussieu, and the second by De Candolle to designate the vegetable sub-kingdom called also Endogens. [ENDOGEN.]

mon-o-cot-y-lē ́-don-oŭs, a. [Eng. monocotyledon; -ous.] Having a single cotyledon.

monocotyledonous-plants, s. pl. The sub-kingdom or class Endogens.

mo-noc -ra-cy, s. [Gr. monos alone, single, and krateō to rule.] Government by a single person; autocracy.

mon -o-crăt, s. [MONOCRACY.] One who governs

alone; an autocrat.

mon-o-crot-ic, a. [Pref. mono-; Gr. krotos=a beating; suff. -ic.]

Phys.: Giving but one beat: not divided into two beats; as, a monocrotic pulse.

mo-noc-ro-tişm, s. [Pref. mono-; Gr. krotos=a beating; suff. -ism.]

Phys.: That condition of pulse in which the sphygmograph shows but one pulse crest in the curve described on that instrument by the beat. mon-ŏc ́-u-lạr, *mon-oc-u-late, mon-oc-uloŭs, a. [Gr. monos alone, single, and Lat. oculus =an eye.]

1. Having one eye only; one-eyed. "Those of China repute the rest of the world monoculous."-Glanvill: Scepsis, ch. xv.

2. Adapted for use with one eye only; as, a monocular microscope.

3. The act, capacity, or result of seeing with an instrument adapted for one eye only. mòn-ở-cụle, 8. [MONOCULAR

mon-oc-u-lus, s. [MONOCULAR.]

Zool.: According to Linnæus, a genus of Apterous Insects. He included under it various Entomostraca, such as Daphnia.

mon-o-çys-tic, 8. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. kystis= a bladder or sac.]

Zool. Having a body consisting of but a single sac; as in the case of some of the Gregarinida. mon-o-çys-tid-e-a, s. pl. [Pref. mono-, and Latinized dimin. of Gr. kystis a bladder.]

Zool.: A doubtful order of Gregarinida, consisting of those which have but a single cavity. Perhaps all the Gregarinida may answer to the description, in which case the order lapses. (Nicholson, &c.) mon-o-dǎc-tyl-ous, a. [Gr. monodaktylos= one-fingered: pref. mono-, and Gr. daktylos=a finger.J Zool.: Having one finger or one toe. mon'--dělph, s. [MONODELPHIA.] Zool.: A mammal of the division or sub-class Monodelphia.

mon-o-dělph-I-a, s. pl. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. delphus the womb.]

Zool. The name given by De Blainville to a division of Mammalia, in which the uterus is single, but still shows a tendency to duality by being divided above. It opens into a single vagina, which is distinct from the rectum. The young are nourished within the uterus until they are able to suck. This division contains all Mammals, except Marsupialia and Monotremata. It was divided by Prof. Huxley into Deciduata and Non-deciduata, but now forms his class Eutheria. [PROTOTHERIA.]

mon-o-dělph'-I-an, a. & s. [Eng., &c., monodelphi(a); -an.]

A. As adj.: Pertaining or belonging to the Monodelphia; destitute of a marsupium or pouch. B. As substantive:

Zool. The same as MONODELPH (q. v.). mon-o-dělph-Ic, a. [Eng., &c., monodelph (ia); -ic.] The same as MONODELPHIAN, A. (q. v.). mon o dělph-oŭs, adj. [English, &c., monodelphia); -ous.]

1. Bot. The same as MONADELPHOUS (q. v.). 2. Zool. The same as MONODELPHIAN, A. (q. v.). mon-o-di-a-mět -ral, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. diametral.]

Geom.: A term used of quartan curves with a single diameter as opposed to doubly diametral quartan curves. Mr. F. W. Newman digests the former into four groups, twenty-one classes. (Brit. Assoc. Rep. (1872), ii. 23.)

fate, făt, färe, amidst, what, fall,

*mo-nod -ic-al, a. [Eng. monod(y); -ical.] or pertaining to a monody. mon-ō-di-chla-mýd' -ě-oŭs, adj. [Pref. mono-; Gr. di=twice; chlamys (genit. chlamydos) = a cloak, and Eng. suff. -eous.[

Bot.: Having indifferently either a calyx only or both calyx and corolla.

mon-o-di-mět -ric, a. [Pref. mono-; Gr. di= twice, and Eng. metric.] Crystall. Having the vertical axis unequal to the lateral one, as the square prism and the square

octahedron.

mon-o-dist, s. [English monod(y); -ist.] One who writes or sings a monody.

mon -ô-don, s. [Pref. mon-, and Gr. odous (genit. odontos) = a tooth.]

Arctic Seas. It contains but one species, Monodon Zool. Narwhal; a genus of Delphinidæ, from the monoceros, remarkable for its dentition. The lower jaw in both sexes is edentulous; in the male, the upper jaw has two molars concealed in the gum, and two canines; the right is usually rudimentary, though sometimes abnormally developed, the left grows to an enormous size, forming a trunk from eight to ten feet in length, spirally twisted. It is probably an offensive weapon. In the female there are two rudimentary canines in the upper jaw, the left sometimes developing into a tusk.

mon-o-don ́-tą, s. [MONODON.]

Zool.: Rosary-shell; a genus of holostomatous prosobranchiate gasteropods, family Turbinida. Top-shaped, resembling the periwinkle in form; the whorls are grooved and granulated spirally; lip thickened and grooved, columella irregularly toothed; operculum whorled and horny. Ten recent species are known from West Africa, the Red Sea, India, and Australia. Mangrove-swamps form their favorite habitat.

mon-o-dör ́-a, 8. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. dōron a

gift.]

Bot.: A genus of Anonacea, tribe Anoncæ. There are numerous carpels. Five are known, natives of Africa. Monodora myristica has the qualities of the nutmeg. It has been introduced into the West Indies.

mon'-o-dra-ma, *mon'-d-drame, s. [Gr. monos -alone, single, and drama=a doing, a drama.] A dramatic piece for one performer only.

mon-o-dra-măt -ic, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. dramatic (q. v.).] Of or pertaining to a monodrama.

mon-d-dỹ, s. [Gr. monōdia, from monodos= singing alone: monos alone, single, and ode=a song; Fr. monodie; Ital. monodia.] A song for a single voice, generally of a plaintive character. The term was originally applied to vocal solos in the church service.

"Let monodies on Fox regale your crew."
Byron: English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

dynamic (q. v.). Having only one power, capac-
mon-d-dỹ-năm ́-Ic, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng.
ity, or talent. (De Quincey.)
mon-ō-dỹ -nam-işm, s. [Pref. mono-, and Eng.
dynamism.]

Philos.: The teaching that all the powers of naturo proceed from one principle. Such were the speculations of Thales, Anaximenes, and Diogenes of Apollonia.

"Side by side with this tentative and growing monothe ism, there is a bold and unhesitating monodynamism." G. 11. Lewes: Hist. Philos. (1880), i. 3.

mon-œ-cl-a (c as sh), s. pl. [Pref. mon-, and Gr. oikia, oikion, oikosa house.]

Bot.: The twenty-first class in the artificial system of Linnæus. The male and female flowers are separate, but on the same plant. [MONOCIOUS.] It contains eight orders, Monandria, Diandria, Triandria, Tetrandria, Pentandria, Hexandria, Polyandria, and Monadelphia.

mon-c-cian, a. & s. [MONŒECIA.]

A. As adj.: The same as MONŒECIOUS (q. v.).
B. As subst.: A monoecious plant.
mon-a-cious, a. [MONŒCIA.]

1. Zool. The term is sometimes used of animals in which the two sexes are not distinct. Examples: Some mollusca, as land-snails, pteropods, opisthobranchs, and certain conchifers. The monoecious land-snails require reciprocal union.

2. Bot.: Having stamens in one flower and the pistils in another, both flowers being on the same plant. [DIŒCIOUS.]

mon-æ-çişm, s. [MONŒCIOUS.] The state of being monoecious.

mon-o-form-In, s. [Pref. mono-; Eng. form (ic), and suff. -in (Chem.).]

món-0-găm, s. [MONOGAMY.

Bot.: A plant which has a simple flower. mon-o-gā ́-mi-a, s. pl. [MONOGAMY.] Bot.: Plants having flowers distinct from each not now recognized in any system as an order. other, and not collected into a capitulum. It is

mon-o-gā -mi-an, a. [Eng., &c., monogami(a) (qv); suff. -an.] A plant belonging to the Monogamia (q. v.). The same as MONGGAMOUS (q. v.). mon o găm -ic, adj. [Eng. monogam(y); -ic.]

mo nŏg-a-mist, s. [Eng. monogam(y); -ist.] 1. One who disallows or disapproves of second marriages; an advocate of marrying only once. "I valued myself upon being a strict monogamist.”— Goldsmith: Vicar of Wakefield, ch. xiv.

2. One who has only one wife; as opposed to a bigamist or polygamist.

mo-nog-a-moŭs, a. [Eng. monogam(y); -ous.] I. Ordinary Language:

1. Advocating monogamy or the practice of marrying only once.

2. Marrying only one at a time; opposed to bigamous or polygamous.

II. Technically:

1. Bot.: Having flowers distinct from each other. [MONOGAMIA.] 2. Zool.: Pairing with a single mate, and living in couples.

mồ năg-a-mỹ, *mô-nig -a-mẽ, s. [Lat. mo nogamia, from Gr. monogamia, from monos = alone, single, and gumos=marriage.]

I. Ordinary Language:

1. The practice of marrying only once; the princi ple which forbids the second marriage of a widow or widower.

2. The marrying of only one at a time; as opposed to bigamy or polygamy.

II. Zool. The habit of pairing with a single mate.

mon-o-gǎs -tric, a. [Gr. monos alone, single, and gaster the stomach.] Having only one stom ach.

mon-o-gen-ě-sis, s. [Gr. monos alone, single and genesis=origin.]

Biology:

1. A term used by Van Beneden to denote direct development of an embryo from a parent similar to itself. (Brande & Cor.)

2. Professor A. Thomson applies the term to the descent of an individual from one parent form, containing both the sperm cell and germ cell; monogony. (It is used also by Haeckel in this sense.)

mon-o-gen-ĕ-sỹ, s. [MONOGENESIS.] The doctrine that the human race has sprung from a single species.

mon-o-gě-nět -ic, a. [MONOGENESIS.] Of or per taining to monogenesis; monophyletic.

"There are indeed two schools of physiologists, the polygenetic and the monogenetic, the former admitting from the beginning a variety of primitive cells, the latter postulating but one cell, as the source of all being.”— Max Müller: Fraser's Magazine, July, 1873.

mon-o-gen-Ic, a. [Pref. mono-; Gr. genad=to bear, and suff. ic.]

1. Biol.: Of or relating to monogenesis. 2. Zool. Bringing forth only one kind of germs or young; developing only one way.

mở nóg-ăn-Işm, s. [Fr. monogénisme.] [Mono GENESIS.]

Anthrop.: The system which assumes that all men belong to a single race, or that all men are descended from a single pair. [MONOGENIST, B.] "Five-sixths of the public are taught this Adamitio monogenism, as if it were an established truth."-Hurley: Critiques (1873), p. 159.

mo-nog -ĕn-Ist, a. & s. [Fr. monogéniste.] A. As adj.: Pertaining to or in any way con nected with monogenism.

"The monogenist hypotheses." - Huxley: Critiques (1873), p. 159.

B. As substantive:

wě,

monogenistic

created somewhere between the Caucasus and the Hindoo Koosh; (3) that as men multiplied they migrated; and (4) that climatic influences and other conditions are sufficient to account for all the diversities of mankind.

"According to the monogenists all mankind have sprung from a single pair."- Huxley: Critiques (1873), P. 159.

mon-o-gě-nist -Ic, adj. [Eng. monogenist; -ic.] The same as MONOGENIST, A. (q. v.).

"Combining all that is good in the Monogenistic and Polygenistic schools."-Huxley: Critiques (1873), p. 163. mo-nog -ē-nous, a. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. genað = to bear.] Biol.: Relating to or partaking of the nature of monogenesis.

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mon-o-gĕnş, s. pl. [Prof. mono-, and Gr. gennaō =to produce.] Chem.: A term applied by Erlenmeyer to those elements which combine with one another in one proportion only; thus hydrogen and chlorine unite in the proportion of one part by weight of the former to 35 5 parts of the latter, and in no other.

mô-nôg-ăn-ỹ, 8. [Gr. monogeneia, from monogenes of one and the same blood; pref. mono-, and genos race, stock, family.]

Anthrop.: The opinion or tenet that mankind sprang from a single pair.

mon-o-go-nen-tic, a. [Pref. mono-, and Greck gone off-spring.]

Zool. Bringing forth but one litter or brood in

one season.

mon-o-gon-ic, a. [Eng. monogon (y); -ic.] Belonging to or in any way connected with monogony (q. v.).

"The phenomenon of non-sexual or monogonic propagation."-Haeckel: Hist. Creation, i. 183.

mo-nog -d-ný, s. [Mod. Lat. monogonia: pref. mono-, and Gr. gonos birth, descent.] Biol.: Propagation by fission or gemmation; nonsexual propagation.

"This kind of monogony is exceedingly widely spread."

-Haeckel: Hist. Creation, i. 191.

mon -o-grăm, s. [Lat. monogramma, from Gr. monogrammaton = a mark formed of one letter: monos alone, single, and gramma=a letter; Fr. monogramme.]

†1. A single character in writing. "The Doctor is of opinion that, before the writing of words was so simplified as to be divided into syllables, words were expressed by some arbitrary sign, figure or character, destined to express complete words,

and which he therefore calls monograms."-Gent. Mag.,

Jan., 1802, p. 43.

†2. A picturo drawn in lines without color; a sketch.

3. A cipher composed of two or more letters arranged or interwoven in such a manner as to form a single object, and used on seals, letter-paper, &c., and by artists as the signature on their paintings, engravings, &c.

mon'-o-grăm-mal, a. [Eng. monogram; -al.] 1. In the style or fashion of a monogram; pertain ing to monograms.

2. In manner of a sketch. "Though it be but as it were a monogrammal description, and a kind of rude draught as it were with a cole." -Fotherby: Atheomastix, p. 355.

mon-o-grǎm'-mic, *mon-o-gram-măt-Ic, *mon-o-grăm-moŭs, a. [Eng. monogram; -ic, -atic, -ous.] The same as MONOGRAMMAL (q. v.). mon-o-grǎph, s. [Gr. monos alone, single, and graphe a writing; grapho to write.] An account or description of a single thing or class of things; an essay on a single object.

"The pamphlet still remains the best monograph on the subject in point of method."—Athenæum, Aug. 19, 1882, p. 245.

mon-o-grǎph, v. t. [MONOGRAPH, 8.] To write or compose a monograph of; to describe in a monograph.

"The British species of Lumbricus have never been carefully monographed."-Darwin: Formation of Vegetable Mould, ch. i.

mo-nog -ra-pher, subst. [Eng. monograph; -er.] One who writes or composes a monograph. mon-o-graph'-Ic, mõn-o-grǎph-Ic-al, a. [Eng. monograph; -ic, -ical.]

1. Pertaining to or of the nature of a monograph. 2. Drawn in lines without color. mon-o-grǎph'-ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. monograph ical; -ly.] In the manner of a monograph; in a monograph.

mo-nog'-ra-phist, s. [Eng. monograph; -ist.] A writer of a monograph.

mo-nog'-ra-phoŭs, a. [Eng. monograph; -ous.] The same as MONOGRAPHIC (q. v.).

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mo-nog'-ra-phy, s. [MONOGRAPH, 8.]

*1. A monograph.

monopersonal

*mon'-ōme, s. [MONOMIAL, 8.]

mô-nom-er-a, s. pl. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. mēros

mon'-o-gyn, 8. [MONOGYNIA.]

Bot.: A plant of the Linnæan order Monogynia (q.v.).

mon-o-gyn ́-1-a, s. pl. [Pref. mono-, and Greek gyně a woman.] Bot.: An order of plants in Linnæus' artificial system. It consists of those with one stamen. Various classes have an order Monogynia. món-0-gắn-Y-ạn, mô-nig -ăn-oñs, adj、 [Eng. monogynian, -ous.] Pertaining to the order Monogynia; having only one style or pistil.

mon-o-gy-no-çi-al, a. [Pref. mono-, Gr. gyne a woman, a pistil, and oikia a house.] Bot. (of a fruit): Formed of one pistil from a single flower.

mo-nŏg'-yn-ý, 8. [MONOGYNIA.] Marriage to one wife only; the state of having only one wife at

a time.

mon-ó-hĕm'-ĕr-oŭs, adj. [Greek monos alone, single, and hemera=a day.] Med.: Existing or continuing only for a single day.

mon-61-cous, a. [MONECIOUS.] mon-ŏl-a-try, 8. [Gr. monos alone, single, and latreia-service, worship.] The worship of one God. "The religion of the Old Testament is no mere natural variety of Semetic monolatry."-W. Robertson Smith: Old Test. in Jewish Church, lect. I.

mon-d-lěp'-Is, s. [Pref. mono-, and Gr. lepis a

scale.]

Zool.: A genus of Macrourous Crustaceans, akin to Porcellana.

lithos a stone.] A column or block formed of a mon -ô-líth, s. [Gr. monos alone, single, and single stone. The term is applied to such erections as the obelisks of Egypt.

olith; -al, -ic.] Formed of a single stone or block. mon'-ô-lith-al, mon-o-lith -Ic, a. [Eng, mon"The remarkable monolithic group called the Stones of Stennis."-Wilson: Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, ch. y. ¶ The term monolithic is also applied to struct ures in which the blocks are immense, in some cases reaching from the foundation to the entablature. mô-nŏl-o-gist, s. [Eng. monolog(y); -ist.] One who soliloquizes; one who monopolizes conversation. mon -ô-lõgue, 8. [Fr., from Greek monologos speaking alone: monos-alone, and logos=a word, speech.J

1. A dramatic scene in which a person speaks by himself; a soliloquy.

"I can show in Shakespeare many scenes of rhyme together, and the like in Ben Jonson's tragedies; in Cataline and Sejanus sometimes thirty or forty lines; I mean besides the chorus or monologues."-Dryden: Essay of

Dramatic Poesie.

Smart: The Duellist.

monomania.

chin, bench; -tion,

mon-d-mět -al-lişm, 8. [Pref. mono-; English metal; -ism.] The fact or principle of having only one metal as a standard for coinage; belief in the advantages of a single metallic standard.

mon-ô-mět -al-list, subst. [Pref. mono-; Eng. metal; -ist.] One who supports or advocates monometallism.

mo-nom-ě-ter, 8. [Gr. monos alone, single, nd metron measure.] A rythmical series, consisting of a single meter.

mon-o-mět -ric, a. [Pref. mono-, and English metric.] Min. & Crystallog.: Having one measure or proportion; having the three axes equal and intersecting at right angles.

mon-o-mět'-ri-cal, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. metrical (q. v.).] Pertaining to or consisting of monometers; containing only one meter. mo-no-mi-al, s. & a. [Gr. moncy=alone, single, and onoma a name.] Algebra:

A. As subst.: An expression or quantity consisting of a single term, unconnected with any other by signs of addition, subtraction, equality, or inequality.

B. As adj.: Consisting of only one term. mon-o-mor-phous, mon-o-mor-phic, a. [Gr. monos alone, single, and morphe=form, shape.] 1. Ord. Lang.: Consisting of a single form. 2. Entom.: Having one form both in the larval and mature state, though in the former it may be wingless, and in the latter winged.

mon-om-pha-lùs, s. [Gr. monos alone, single, and omphalos the navel.

Physiol. A single umbilicus connecting two distinct individuals, such as the Siamese twins, making the monstrosity of one compound individual.

mon-o-my-är'-I-a, s. pl. [Mod. Lat., from pref. mono-, and Gr. mus (genit. muos) = a muscle.]

1. Zool.: A name for that section of bivalves in which there is only one adductor muscle. It was first given by Lamarck. The Monomyaria are the streide, part of the Aviculidæ, and the genera Tridacna and Mulleria.

2. Palæont.: As none of the monomyaria are fresh-water, it may be assumed that any stratum in which they occur fossil was of marine origin.

mon-o-my-är'-I-an, s. [MONOMYARIA.] Any bivalve possessing but one adductor muscle. mon--mỹ-a-rỹ, a. & s. [MONOMYARIA.]

A. As adj.: Possessing but one adductor muscle. "In the monomyary bivalves the posterior adductor is the one which remains."-Nicholson: Zoology (1878), p. 385. B. As subst.: A bivalve mollusk possessing only one adductor muscle, and consequently having only one muscular impression on the shell.

"Bivalves with one adductor muscle are termed monomyaries."-Owen: Comp. Anat. Invert. Animals, p. 281. mon-ŏn'-уx, 8. [Pref. mon-, and Gr. onyx=a claw.)

Entom.: A South American genus of Hydrocores, family Galgulidae. The fore tarsi are represented only by a sort of claw.

[Gr.

mon-6-ou-gi-ous, mòn-6-Ôu-gi-an, a. monoousios of a single essence: monos alone, single, and ousia essence, nature.] Consisting or composed of identically the same nature or essence.

mo-nõp ́-ath-, 8. [Greek monopatheia, from monos alone, single, and pathos suffering.]

*1. Ord. Lang.: Solitary suffering or sensibility. 2. Pathol.: Disease affecting only one organ or function of the body or the mind on a single point. mon-o-per-son-al, a. [Pref. mono-, and Eng. personal (q. v.).)

Theol.: Having but one person.

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