A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at that very moment.

Lasting but a moment; brief.

For a moment.

Momentary.

Every moment; from moment to moment.

The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.

Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.

For a moment.

Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs.

utmost importance.

The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied by the velocity; impetus.

A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.

See Mummery.

A genus of Old World tropical vine.

The god of blame and mockery; Momus.

See Motmot.

The type genus of the Momotidae.

The god of mockery and censure.

The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used.

A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.

Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.

The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.

An acid having one replaceable hydrogen atom.

An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

The Infusoria.

A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family.

Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n.

Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young.

The doctrine or theory of monads.

Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.

An amido compound with only one amido group; a monoamide.

A basic compound containing one amido group; a monoamine; as, methyl amine is a monamine.

One of the Monandria.

A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen.

Same as Monandrous.

Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.

Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen.

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

Having but one flower; one-flowered.

Superior to others; preeminent; supreme; ruling.

A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus) having striking orange-brown wings with black veins in a reticulated pattern; -- called also milkweed butterfly and monarch. Its larvae feed on the leaves of the milkweed.

Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovereign; regal; imperial.

A female monarch.

Monarchic.

One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; -- called also patripassian.

Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy.

The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.

An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.

To rule; to govern.

One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist.

The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.

A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.

Any of various aromatic herbs of the genus Monarda.

A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life.

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

A monk.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

In a monastic manner.

A book giving an account of monasteries.

Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic. Having the equivalence or replacing power of an atom of hydrogen; univalent; as, the methyl radical is monatomic.

Having or hearing with only one ear.

Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.

A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, -- a phosphate of the cerium metals.

The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.

A child who is fair of face; -- a reference to a nineteenth century poem. See below.

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.

A moan.

See Monoecian, and Monoecious.

The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo.

One of the Monera.

The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.

Of or pertaining to the Monera.

Of or pertaining to the Monera. One of the Monera.

One of the Monera.

A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.

The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent.

The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a medicine.

To warn; to admonish; to advise.

Having only one estrus period per breeding cycle or per year; -- of certain mammals.

An economic theory holding that the rate of growth of the money supply is the priunciple cause of changes in inflation, economic growth, and unemployment.

One who adheres to the theory of monetarism.

Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.

A month.

monetization.

The act or process of converting into money, or of establishing something (e.g. gold or silver) as the legal tender of a country; as, the monetization of silver.

To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.

To supply with money.

One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money.

Affording profitable returns; lucrative; as, a money-making business. Opposite of unprofitable.

a project that generates a continuous flow of money.

A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin.

a drawstring bag for holding money.

Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyed men.

A person who deals in money; banker or broker.

someone who lends money at excessive rates of interest.

Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious.

a person skilled in large scale financial transactions.

A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.

See Mangcorn.

To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

One of the Mongols. Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.

Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols. One of the Mongols.

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.

See Mongolian.

A person affected with Down syndrome; -- not a technical term.

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

Not of a pure breed.

To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.

See Moneyed.

A fossil fish.

The name of a person, especially an alias or a nickname.

The largest of the three orders into which the Fungi Imperfecti are divided, including various forms.

An infectious disease caused by fungi of the genera Monilia or Candida especially Candida albicans.

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.

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

To admonish; to warn. See Admonish.

One who monishes; an admonisher.

Admonition.