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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Mȯn'ied, a.p. 853See MONEYED.
  2. Mo-nĭl'i-fer, n.p. 853(Paleon.) A kind of fossil fish.
  3. Mo-nĭl'i-fôrm, a.p. 853(Nat. Science.) Jointed so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform antenna; constructed at regular intervals, so as to produce a bead-like appearance; as, a moniliform root.
  4. Mōn'i-ment, n.p. 854Something to preserve memory; a reminder. 2. A mark; an image; a superscription. Spenser.
  5. Mŏn'ish, v. t.p. 854To admonish; to warn. [Obs.] See ADMONISH.
  6. Mōn'ish-er, n.p. 854One who monishes; an admonisher.
  7. Mōn'ish-ment, n.p. 854Admonition. [Obs.]
  8. Mo-nī'tion, n.p. 854Instruction given by way of caution; admonition; warning; as, the monitions of a friend. Swift. 2. Information; indication; notice. We have no visible monitions of other periods, such as we have of…
  9. Mōn'i-tive, a.p. 854Conveying admonition; admonitory.
  10. Mōn'i-tor, n.p. 854One who monishes or admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. You need not be a monitor to the king. Bacon. 2. Hence…
  11. Mōn'i-tō'ri-al, a.p. 854Pertaining to a monitor. 2. Performed by a monitor. 3. Conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school. 4. Communicated by monitors; as, monitorial instruction.
  12. Mōn'i-tō'ri-al-ly, adv.p. 854In a monitorial manner.
  13. Mōn'i-to-ry, a.p. 854Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.
  14. Mōn'i-to-ry, n.p. 854Admonition; warning. [Obs.]
  15. Mōn'i-tress or Mōn'i-trix, n.p. 854A female monitor.
  16. Mōnk, n.p. 854A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of celibacy and…
  17. Mōnk'er-y, n.p. 854The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs;—a term usually applied by way of reproach. “Capes and miters, and wretched dead medieval monkeries.” Carlyle. 2. A collection of monks.…
  18. Mŏnk'ey, n.p. 854(Zoöl.) One of an order of four-footed mammals, having pectoral mammæ, short legs with hand-shaped prehensile feet, usually, long arms with clasping hands, and almost always a prehensile tail; an…
  19. Mŏnk'ey-blŏck, n.p. 854(Naut.) A small single block strapped with a swivel. Dana.
  20. Mōn'k'ey-bōat, n.p. 854(Naut.) A boat employed in the docks. Simmonds.
  21. Mōn'k'ey-brēad, n.p. 854(Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata, a tree of tropical Africa, having an oblong, green body containing cells, in each of which are several hard, shining seeds immersed in a soft pulp, from…
  22. Mōnk'ey-cŭp, n.p. 854(Bot.) A tropical plant of the genus Nepenthes, inhabiting the warmer and damper parts of Asia, having petioles which are vase-shaped and hollow, and contain water secreted by a glandular apparatus…
  23. Mŏnk'ey-flow'er, n.p. 854(Bot.) A plant of the genus Mimulus;— so called from the appearance of the gaping corolla. Gray.
  24. Mŏnk'ey-īsm, n.p. 854The conduct of a monkey; resemblance to a monkey in disposition or actions.
  25. Mŏnk'ey-jăck'et, n.p. 854A long, tailless, close-fitting jacket, usually of some coarse or stout material.
  26. Mŏnk'ey-rāil, n.p. 854(Naut.) A second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter-rail of a ship.
  27. Mŏnk'ey-tāil, n.p. 854A short, round iron bar used in naval gunnery. Totten.
  28. Mŏnk'ey-wrĕnch, n.p. 854A wrench or spanner having a movable jaw.
  29. Mŏnk'-fish, n.p. 854(Ichth.) A fish belonging to the sharks; the same as KINGSTON.
  30. Mōnk'hŏod, n.p. 854The character or condition of a monk.
  31. Mōnk'ing, a.p. 854Monkish. “Monasteries and other monking receptacles.” Coleridge.
  32. Mōnk'ish, a.p. 854Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
  33. Mōnk'ly, a.p. 854Resembling, relating to, or becoming, a monk; monkish.
  34. Mōnk'-sēal, n.p. 854(Zoöl.) A species of seal of the genus Pelagius (P. monachus), found in the Adriatic Sea and along the coast of Sardinia. Baird.
  35. Mōnk's'-head, n.p. 854(Bot.) A plant of the genus Leontodon.
  36. Mŏnk's'-hŏod, n.p. 854(Bot.) A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See ACONITE.
  37. Mōnk's-rhū'bārb, n.p. 854An herb of the genus Rumex; a species of dock.
  38. Mōnk's'-sēam, n.p. 854(Naut.) A seam made by laying the selvage of one piece, as of a sail, over that of another, and sewing both edges.
  39. Mōn'o-bā'sic, a.p. 854(Chem.) Having only one part of base to one of acid.
  40. Mŏn/o-cār'di-an, a.p. 854Having a single heart, as fishes and reptiles.
  41. Mōn'o-cär'di-an, n.p. 854(Zoöl.) An animal having a single heart, as fishes and reptiles.
  42. Mōn'o-cārp or Mōn'o-cār'pon, n.p. 854(Bot.) A plant that produces fruit but once, dying after fructification; an annual plant.
  43. Mōn'o-cār'pōûs, a.p. 854(Bot.) Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as wheat, and the like. Lindley.
  44. Mō-nŏç'-e-rŏs, n.p. 854A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea-monster with one horn; perhaps the sword-fish. [Obs.] “Mighty monoceros with immeasured tail.” Spenser. 2. (Astron.) The Unicorn, a constellation situated to…
  45. Mōn'o-chla-mȳd'e-oūs, a.p. 854(Bot.) Having a single covering, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or a corolla without a calyx.
  46. Mōn'o-chōrd, n.p. 854(Mus.) 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…
  47. Mōn'o-chro-māt'ic, a.p. 854Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only. Monochromatic lamp, a lamp whose flame yields rays of some one homogenous light. It is of the greatest importance in optical…
  48. Mŏn'o-chrōme, n.p. 854A painting with a single color.
  49. Mōn'o-chron'ic, a.p. 854Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
  50. Mōn'o-çil'ī-ā'ted, a.p. 854Furnished with one cilium. See CILIA.
  51. Mōn'o-clīn'ic, a.p. 854(Crystallog.) Having one oblique intersection;—said of a certain system of crystallization, in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See…
  52. Mo-nōc'li-noūs, a.p. 854(Bot.) Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
  53. Mōn'o-co-tȳle or Mōn'o-cōt'y-lē'd'o-noūs, a.p. 854(Bot.) Having only one cotyledon, seed-lobe, or seminal leaf.
  54. Mōn'o-cōt'y-lē'don, n.p. 854(Bot.) A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed-lobe.
  55. Mo-nŏc'ra-cy, n.p. 854Government by a single person; undivided rule.
  56. Mōn'o-crāt, n.p. 854One who governs alone; an aristocrat; a monarch.
  57. Mo-nōc'ū-lar or Mo-nōc'ū-lous, a.p. 854Having one eye only; with one eye only; as, monocular vision. 2. Adapted to be used with only one eye at a time; as, a monocular microscope.
  58. Mōn'o-cūle, n.p. 854(Entom.) An insect with only one eye.
  59. Mōn'o-dăc'tyl-oūs, a.p. 854Having but one finger or toe.
  60. Mŏn'o-dēlph, n.p. 854(Zoöl.) An animal belonging to a class of mammals having no external pouch or marsupium, but bringing forth its young in such a state of maturity as to need no such additional protection;—so called…