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- English Word Monitor Definition Any large Old World lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V. Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.
- English Word Monitor Definition An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
- English Word Monitor Definition A tool holder, as for a lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds into proper position for cutting.
- English Word Monitorial Definition Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
- English Word Monitorial Definition Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.
- English Word Monitorially Definition In a monitorial manner.
- English Word Monitorship Definition The post or office of a monitor.
- English Word Monitory Definition Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
- English Word Monitory Definition Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
- English Word Monitress Definition Alt. of Monitrix
- English Word Monitrix Definition A female monitor.
- English Word Monk Definition 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.
- English Word Monk Definition A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
- English Word Monk Definition A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
- English Word Monk Definition A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
- English Word Monk Definition The European bullfinch.
- English Word Monk's seam Definition An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
- English Word Monkeries Definition of Monkery
- English Word Monkery Definition The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
- English Word Monkery Definition A collective body of monks.
- English Word Monkey Definition In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
- English Word Monkey Definition Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.
- English Word Monkey Definition Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
- English Word Monkey Definition A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
- English Word Monkey Definition The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging.
- English Word Monkey Definition A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
- English Word Monkey Definition To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
- English Word Monkey's puzzle Definition A lofty coniferous Chilian tree (Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called pion by the Chilians.
- English Word Monkey-bread Definition The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
- English Word Monkey-cup Definition See Nepenthes.