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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. Mōn'o-gȳn'i-a, n.p. 855(Bot.) An order of plants in the Linnæan system, including those which have only one style or stigma.
  2. Mōn'o-gyn'i-an or Mo-nōg'y-noūs, a.p. 855(Bot.) Pertaining, or belonging, to the order Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.
  3. Mōn'o-hēm'er-oūs, a.p. 855(Med.) Continuing, or existing, but one day.
  4. Mōn'o-lith, n.p. 855A pillar, column, or the like, consisting of a single stone.
  5. Mŏn'o-lith'al or Mŏn'o-lith'ic, a.p. 855Consisting of, or furnished with, monoliths; consisting of a single stone.
  6. Mo-nŏl'o-gĭst, n.p. 855One who soliloquizes. 2. One who monopolizes conversation to the exclusion of others. De Quincey.
  7. Mōn'o-lōgue, n.p. 855A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy. 2. A poem, song, or scene, composed for a single performer.
  8. Mo-nŏl'o-gy, n.p. 855The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation. It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life. De Quincey.
  9. Mōn'o-mā'chi-ā or Mo-nōm'a-chy, n.p. 855A duel; single combat. “Unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia.” W. Scott.
  10. Mo-nŏm'a-chĭst, n.p. 855One who fights in single combat; a duelist.
  11. Mōn'o-māne, n.p. 855A monomaniac. [Rare.]
  12. Mŏn'o-mā'ni-ă, n.p. 855Derangement of a single faculty of the mind, or with regard to a particular subject only. Syn.—Insanity; madness; alienation; aberration; derangement; mania. See INSANITY.
  13. Mōn'o-mā'ni-ăc, n.p. 855A person affected by monomania.
  14. Mōn'o-mā'ni-ăc, a.p. 855Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect.
  15. Mōn'ōme, n.p. 855(Math.) A monomial. See MONOMIAL.
  16. Mō-nŏm'e-ter, n.p. 855A rhythmical series, consisting of a single meter.
  17. Mōn'o-mēt'rie, a.p. 855(Crystallog.) Having one measure or proportion; — said of a certain system of crystallization, in which the three axes are equal and intersect at right angles. See CRYSTALLIZATION.
  18. Mo-nō'mi-al, n.p. 855(Alg.) A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the signs of addition, subtraction, equality, or inequality. Math. Dict.
  19. Mo-nō'mi-al, a.p. 855(Alg.) Consisting of but a single term or expression.
  20. Mōn'o-mȳ-ā'rĭ-a, n.p. 855(Conch.) An order of bivalves (as the oysters), having but one muscle for closing the shell in each valve.
  21. Mōn'o-my'a-ry, a.p. 855(Conch.) Having but one muscle for closing the shell, as in the oyster. Dana.
  22. Mōn/o-mȳ'a-ry, n.p. 855(Conch.) — A bivalve of the order Monomyaria.
  23. Mōn'o-môr'phōus, a.p. 855Having but a single form, as a monomorphous insect, which, in its larval state, is nearly the same as in the perfect condition, except as being wingless.
  24. Mōn'o-ous'i-an or Mōn'o-ous'i-oûs, a.p. 855(Theol.) Having but one and the same nature or essence.
  25. Mo-nŏp'a-thy, n.p. 855Solitary suffering or sensibility.
  26. Mōn'o-pēr'son-al, a.p. 855Having but one person, or form of existence.
  27. Mōn'o-pĕt'a-lous, a.p. 855(Bot.) Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube; gamopetalous.
  28. Mō-nŏph'a-noŭs, a.p. 855Having one and the same appearance; mutually resemblant.
  29. Mōn'o-phōn'ic, a.p. 855(Mus.) Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; — opposed to polyphonic.
  30. Mōn'oph-thōng, n.p. 855A single uncompounded vowel sound. 2. A combination of two written vowels pronounced as one; a digraph.
  31. Mōn'oph-thōn'gal, a.p. 855Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.
  32. Mo-nŏph'yl-lous or Mŏn'o-phŷl'lous, a.p. 855(Bot.) One-leaved; having a leaf of but one piece.
  33. Mōn'o-phy'o-dōnt, n.p. 855(Zoöl.) A mammal which has but one set of teeth. R. Owen.
  34. Mo-nŏph'y-site, n.p. 855(Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one nature.
  35. Mŏn'o-phy-sīt'ic-al, a.p. 855Of, or pertaining to, the Monophysites, or their doctrines.
  36. Mo-nŏp'o-dy, n.p. 855(Pros.) A measure consisting of but a single foot.
  37. Mō-nŏp'o-ler, n.p. 855One who monopolizes any thing; a monopolist. [Obs.] Sherwood.
  38. Mo-nŏp′o-list or Mo-nŏp′o-liz′er, n.p. 855One who monopolizes; a person who engrosses a commodity by purchasing the whole of that article in market, for the sake of selling at an advanced price; or one who has a license, or privilege granted…
  39. Mo-nŏp'o-līze, v. t.p. 855To purchase or obtain possession of the whole of, as a commodity or goods in market, with the view to appropriate or control the exclusive sale of; as, to monopolize sugar or tea. 2. To engross or…
  40. Mo-nŏp'o-ly, n.p. 855The sole power of dealing in any species of goods, or of dealing with a country or market, obtained either by engrossing the articles in market by purchase, or by a license from government; sole…
  41. Mōn'o-pŏl'y-lōgue, n.p. 855An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.
  42. Mo-nŏp'ter-al, a.p. 855(Arch.) With but one wing;—applied to a temple or circular inclosure of columns, without a cell.
  43. Mo-nŏp'ter-al or Mo-nŏp'ter-ōn or Mo-nŏp'ter-ōs, n.p. 855(Arch.) A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without any cell.
  44. Mōn'op-tōte or Mo-nōp'tōte, n.p. 855(Gram.) A noun having only one case.
  45. Mōn'o-pyr'e-noŭs, a.p. 855(Bot.) Having but a single stone or kernel. Gray.
  46. Mōn'o-rhŷme, n.p. 855A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.
  47. Mŏn'o-sēp'al-oŭs, a.p. 855(Bot.) Having, or consisting of, one sepal, that is, having a calyx of one piece.
  48. Mōn'o-spĕrm'oŭs, a.p. 855Having one seed only.
  49. Mŏn'o-sphĕr'ic-al, a.p. 855Consisting of one sphere only.
  50. Mŏn'o-stich, n.p. 855A composition consisting of one verse only.
  51. Mŏn'o-stō'mȧ, n.p. 855(Zoöl.) A genus of trematode entozoa, including those which have only a single pore, serving at once for nutrition and adhesion. Brande.
  52. Mŏn'o-strŏph'ic, a.p. 855(Pros.) Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure.
  53. Mōn'o-syl-lāb'ic, a.p. 855Consisting of one syllable; as, a monosyllabic word. 2. Consisting of words of one syllable; as, a monosyllabic verse.
  54. Mŏn'o-syl'la-bĭsm, n.p. 855The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.
  55. Mŏn'o-syl'la-ble, n.p. 855A word of one syllable.
  56. Mōn'o-syl'la-bled, a.p. 855Formed into, or consisting of, one syllable. Cleveland.
  57. Mōn'o-tes'sa-rōn, n.p. 855A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. [Rare.]
  58. Mōn'o-thāl'a-man, n.p. 855(Zoöl.) A univalve shell having but one chamber. Brandé.
  59. Mōn'o-thăl'a-moŭs, a.p. 855One-chambered;—applied to cephalopods having a unilocular shell, and to the common univalves.
  60. Mōn'o-thē'ism, n.p. 855The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.