Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 66

Monger (n.) A small merchant vessel.

Monger (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

Mongol (n.) One of the Mongols.

Mongol (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.

Mongolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.

Mongolian (n.) One of the Mongols.

Mongolic (a.) See Mongolian.

Mongoloid (a.) Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols.

Mongols (n. pl.) Alt. of Mongolians

Mongolians (n. pl.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.

Mongoose (n.) Alt. of Mongoos

Mongoos (n.) A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus).

Mongrel (n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.

Mongrel (a.) Not of a pure breed.

Mongrel (a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.

Mongrelize (v. t. & i.) To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.

'Mongst (prep.) See Amongst.

Monied (a.) See Moneyed.

Monifier (n.) A fossil fish.

Moniliform (a.) Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.

Moniment (n.) Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.

Monish (v. t.) To admonish; to warn. See Admonish.

Monisher (n.) One who monishes; an admonisher.

Monishment (n.) Admonition.

Monism (n.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.

Monism (n.) See Monogenesis, 1.

Monist (n.) A believer in monism.

Monistic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.

Monition (n.) Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.

Monition (n.) Information; indication; notice; advice.

Monition (n.) A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.

Monition (n.) An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.

Monitive (a.) Conveying admonition; admonitory.

Monitor (n.) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.

Monitor (n.) Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.

Monitor (n.) Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.

Monitor (n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

Monitor (n.) A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.

Monitorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.

Monitorial (a.) Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.

Monitorially (adv.) In a monitorial manner.

Monitorship (n.) The post or office of a monitor.

Monitory (a.) Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.

Monitory (n.) Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.

Monitress (n.) Alt. of Monitrix

Monitrix (n.) A female monitor.

Monk (n.) A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.

Monk (n.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

Monk (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

Monk (n.) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.

Monk (n.) The European bullfinch.

Monkeries (pl. ) of Monkery

Monkery (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.

Monkery (n.) A collective body of monks.

Monkeys (pl. ) of Monkey

Monkey (n.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

Monkey (n.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.

Monkey (n.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.

Monkey (n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.

Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.

Monkey (n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.

Monkey (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.

Monkey-bread (n.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.

Monkey-cup (n.) See Nepenthes.

Monkey-pot (n.) The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.

Monkey's puzzle () A lofty coniferous Chilian tree (Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called piöon by the Chilians.

Monkeytail (n.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.

Monkfish (n.) The angel fish (Squatina).

Monkfish (n.) The angler (Lophius).

Monkflower (n.) A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

Monkhood (n.) The character or condition of a monk.

Monkhood (n.) Monks, regarded collectively.

Monking (a.) Monkish.

Monkish (a.) Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.

Monkly (a.) Like, or suitable to, a monk.

Monkshood (n.) A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.

Monk's seam () An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.

Mono- () Alt. of Mon-

Mon- () A prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.

Mono (n.) The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).

Monobasic (a.) Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; -- said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.

Monocarbonic (a.) Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.

Monocardian (a.) Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.

Monocardian (n.) An animal having a single heart.

Monocarp (n.) A monocarpic plant.

Monocarpellary (a.) Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.

Monocarpic (a.) Alt. of Monocarpous

Monocarpous (a.) Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

Monocephalous (a.) Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.

Monoceros (n.) A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.

Monoceros (n.) The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.

Monochlamydeous (a.) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.

Monochord (n.) An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.

Monochromatic (a.) Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.

Monochrome (n.) A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

Monochromic (a.) Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture.

Monochromy (n.) The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.

Monochronic (a.) Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.

Monociliated (a.) Having but one cilium.

Monocle (n.) An eyeglass for one eye.

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