An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.
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The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.
Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.
A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
A noun having only one case.
Having but a single stone or kernel.
Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.
The Marsipobranchiata.
A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.
Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.
The monosodium salt of the natural amino acid L-glutamine (C5H8NNaO4), used as a food additive to enhance flavor; abbreviated MSG. It is usually marketed as the monhydrate (C5H8NNaO4.H2O). It is commmonly used in Chinese-American restaurants, and has been identified as a main cause of Chinese restaurant syndrome.
A monospermous plant.
Having only one seed.
Consisting of one sphere only.
A composition consisting of one verse only.
Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae.
A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.
Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure.
A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
See Monosulphide.
Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.
The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.
A word of one syllable.
Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables.
Same as Monoclinic.
A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.
A foraminifer having but one chamber.
One-chambered.
Formed from one pistil; -- said of fruits.
Having a single loculament.
The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
One who believes that there is but one God.
Of or pertaining to monotheism.
One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite.
Of or pertaining to the Monothelites, or their doctrine.
The doctrine of the Monothelites.
Bearing fruit but once; monocarpic.
Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction only.
A single unvaried tone or sound.
Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.
One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.
A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.
Of or pertaining to the Monotremata.
One of the Monotremata.
A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.
A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.
A natural family of plants, used in some classifications for saprophytic herbs; it is sometimes included in the family Pyrolaceae, and contains the genera Monotropa and Sarcodes.
Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.
Having a valence of one; univalent. See Univalent.
derived from a single egg or ovum; -- of twins; as, identical twins are monovular. Contrasted with fraternal.
An oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.
A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber.
Made of one piece of wood.
A division of Radiolaria; -- called also Monocyttaria.
My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir.
My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.
To make monstrous.
any plant of the genus Monstera; they are often grown as houseplants.
A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.
The act of demonstrating; proof.
The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.
Exceedingly; very; very much.
In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked.
The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary.
Monstrosity.
Monstrous.
Mountain.
A mountain.
Of or pertaining to mountains; consisting of mountains.
A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life.
An upward thrust or blow.
In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
A kind of cotton handkerchief having a uniform colored ground with a regular pattern of white spots produced by discharging the color; -- so called from the Glasgow manufactures.
A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.
A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.
That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.
A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence.
Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
See Monticle.
Monticulate.
Resembling a mountain in form.
Produced on a mountain.
A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes /shown/ as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted.
See Matross.
That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse.
Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
By way of memorial.
Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid.
The lowing of a cow.
a cow{1}; -- a child's word. See 1st cow{1}, n.
to ask for and get free; to borrow without intending to repay; to sponge; -- usually with objects of small value; as, he mooched a few cigarettes from me.
Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.
Mother.
In a moody manner.
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
The governor of a province in Egypt, etc.
Moody.
Moodily.
Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
money.
See Mollah.
Same as Mulley.
Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow.
To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner.
The action or event of sending a spacecraft to the moon; -- used of manned or unmanned missions.
Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
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