Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MON'EY-BOX – MON-I-TOR-I-AL
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MON'EY-BOX, n.
A box or till to hold money.
MON'EY-BROK'ER, n.
A broker who deals in money. Johnson.
MON'EY-CHANG'ER, n.
A broker who deals in money or exchanges. Arbuthnot.
MON'EY-ED, a.
- Rich in money; having money; able to command money; used often in opposition to such an have their wealth in real estate. Invite moneyed men to lend to the merchants. Bacon.
- Consisting in money; as, moneyed capital. Hamilton's Report.
MON'EY-ER, n.
- A banker; one who deals in money.
- A coiner of money. [Little used in either sense.]
MON'EY-LEND'ER, n.
One who lends money.
MON'EY-LESS, a.
Destitute of money; pennyless. Swift.
MON'EY-MAT-TER, n.
An account consisting of charges of money; an account between debtor and creditor. Arbuthnot.
A person who raises money for others. Arbuthnot.
MON'EY-SPIN-NER, n.
A small spider.
MON'EY'S-WORTH, n.
- Something that will bring money.
- Full value; the worth of a thing in money.
MON'EY-WORT, n.
A plant of the genus Nummularia or of the genus Lysimachia.
MONG-CORN, n. [among and corn.]
Mixed corn. [Local.]
MON'GER, n. [Sax. mangere, from mangian, to trade, D. manger.]
A trader; a dealer; now used only or chiefly in composition; as, fish-monger, iron-monger, news-monger, cheese-monger.
MON'GREL, a. [from Sax. mengan, to mix. See Mingle.]
Of a mixed breed; of different kinds. Swift.
MON'GREL, n.
An animal of a mixed breed.
MO-NIL'I-FORM, a. [L. monile, a necklace, and form.]
Like a necklace. Encyc.
MON'I-MENT, n. [L. monimentum, from moneo, to admonish.]
- An inscription; something to preserve memory. [Obs.]
- A mark; an image; a superscription. Spenser.
MON'ISH, v.t.
To admonish; to warn. [Not used.] [See Admonish.]
MON'ISH-ER, n.
An admonisher, – which see.
MON'ISH-MENT, n.
Admonition. [Obs.]
MO-NI'TION, n. [Fr. from L. monitio.]
- Warning; instruction given by way of caution; as, the monitions of a friend. Swift.
- Information; indication. We have no visible monitions of other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness. Holder.
MON'I-TIVE, a.
Admonitory; conveying admonition. Barrow.
MON-I-TOR, n. [L.]
- One who warns of faults or informs of duty; one who gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution. You need not be a monitor to the king. Bacon.
- In schools, a person authorized to look to the scholars in the absence of the instructor, or to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
- In zoology, a genus of lizards inhabiting the warmer parts of the eastern continent.
MON-I-TOR-I-AL, a.
- Pertaining to a monitor.
- Containing admonition.
- Conducting or teaching by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial system..
- Communicated by monitors; as, monitorial instruction.