The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.
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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.
That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of dualism.
A believer in monism.
Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.
Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Conveying admonition; admonitory.
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
In a monitorial manner.
The post or office of a monitor.
Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
A female monitor.
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.
The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
large ornamental tropical American tree (Albizia saman) with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.
A wrench or spanner which has one fixed and one adjustable jaw.
The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
See Nepenthes.
The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and Lecythis 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.
A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.
The angel fish (Squatina). The angler (Lophius), esp. the goosefishes Lophius Americanus in America and Lophius piscatorius in Europe, used for food.
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.).
The character or condition of a monk.
Monkish.
Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
Like, or suitable to, a monk.
A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.
The black howler (Mycetes villosus), a monkey of Central America.
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.
Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid. The more common term is monocarboxylic. Contrasted with dicarboxylic, tricarboxylic, etc.
Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians. An animal having a single heart.
A monocarpic plant.
Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.
A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.
Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
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.
Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture. Called also, monochromatic and monochrome.
The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.
Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
Having but one cilium.
An eyeglass for one eye.
Having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.
A monoclinal fold.
Having one oblique intersection; -- said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida.
Any monocotyledonous plant.
Monocotyledonous.
A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe; a member of the Monocotyledonae.
A class of plants comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with a single cotyledon and parallel-veined leaves: grasses; lilies; palms; and orchids. It is divided into four subclasses or superorders: Alismatidae; Arecidae; Commelinidae; and Liliidae.
Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf.
Government by a single person; undivided rule.
One who governs alone.
Of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.
That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.
Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.
A small crustacean with one median eye.
Monocular.
Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of the protozoan order Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.
Having but one finger or claw.
The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia.
One of the Monodelphia.
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