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.

Of or pertaining to the Monodelphia.

Belonging to a monody.

A writer of a monody.

Pertaining to a monodrama.

A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.

A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.

Possessing but one capacity or power.

The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force.

A Linnaean class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.

Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious. One of the Monoecia.

Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; -- opposed to dioecious.

The state or condition of being monoecious.

One of the Monogamia.

A Linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.

Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.

One who practices or upholds monogamy.

Upholding, or practicing, monogamy.

The state of being monogamous; having one wife at a time.

Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; -- opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; -- opposed to deuterogamy.

Having but a single stomach.

Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.

One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range.

Of or pertaining to monogenesis.

The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.

One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.

Monogenic.

Of or pertaining to monogenesis; as, monogenous, or asexual, reproduction.

Monogenesis.

Having but one brood in a season.

A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.

To inscribe or ornament with a monogram.

See Monogrammic.

Monogrammic.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.

Monogrammic.

A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

A writer of a monograph.

Of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography; as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture.

One who writes a monograph.

Monographic.

Representation by lines without color; an outline drawing.

One of the Monogynia.

A Linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.

Pertaining to the Monogynia; monogynous. One of the Monogynia.

Of or pertaining to Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.

Marriage with the one woman only.

Lasting but one day.

Monoecious.

Worship of a single deity.

Using or knowing only one language; as, monolingual speakers; a monolingual dictionary. Opposite of multilingual.

A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.

Monolithic.

Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.

One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.

A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.

The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.

One who fights in single combat; a duelist.

A duel; single combat.

A monomaniac.

Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

A person affected by monomania.

Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.