Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MON-I-TO'RI-AL-LY, adv.

In a monitorial manner.

MON'I-TO-RY, a.

Giving admonition; warning; instructing by way of caution. Losses, miscarriages and disappointments are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

MON'I-TO-RY, n.

Admonition; warning. Bacon.

MON'I-TRESS, n.

A female monitor.

MONK, n. [Gr. μοναχος, from μονος, W. môn, sole, separate; whence L. monachus; Sax. monec, munuc; Fr. moine; Arm. mannach; W. mynaç; Sans. muni.]

A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion. Monks usually live in monasteries, on entering which they take a vow to observe certain rules. Some however live as hermits in solitude, and others have lived a strolling life without any fixed residence. Encyc.

MONK'ER-Y, a.

The life of monks; the monastic life.

MONK'EY, n. [It. monicchio.]

1. The popular name of the ape and baboon. But in zoology, monkey is more properly the name of those animals of the genus Simia, which have long tails. Ray distributes animals of this kind into three classes; apes which have no tails; monkeys with long tails; and baboons with short tails. Encyc.
2. A name of contempt or of slight kindness. Johnson.

MONK-HOOD, n.

The character of a monk. Atterbury.

MONK-ISH, a.

Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.

MONK'S-HEAD, n.

A plant of the genus Leontodon.

MONK'S-HOOD, n.

A plant of the genus Aconitum.

MONK'S-RHU'BARB, n.

A plant of the genus Rumex, a species of dock.

MON-O-CAR'DI-AN, a. [Gr. μονος and καρδια.]

Having a single heart, as fishes and reptiles. It may be used as a noun.

MON-O-CARP'OUS, a. [Gr. μονος, sole, and καρπος, fruit.]

Bearing a single fruit.

MO-NOC'E-ROS, n. [Gr. μονος, sole, and καρπος, horn.]

The unicorn.

MON-O-CHLAM-YD'E-OUS, a. [Gr. μονος and χλσμυς.]

In botany, having a single covering, that is, a calyx without a corol, or a corol without a calyx. Lindley.

MON'O-CHORD, n. [Gr. μονος, sole, only, and χορδη, chord.]

A musical instrument of one string. As its name imports, it had originally but one string; but it is generally constructed with two, by means of which the musician is better enabled to try the proportions of sounds and intervals, and judge of the harmony of two tempered notes. Encyc. In the proper sense of the word, a trumpet marine is considered a monochord.

MON'O-CHROM, n. [Gr. μονος, sole, and χρωμα, color.]

A painting with a single color. Elmes.

MON-O-CHRO-MAT'IC, a.

Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only. Quart. Journ. Journ. of Science.

MON-OC'LI-NOUS, a. [Gr. μόνος, one, and κλίνη, bed.]

In botany, hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.

MON'O-CO-TYLE, or MON-O-CO-TY-LE'DO-NOUS, a.

Having only one seed-lobe or seminal leaf. Martyn. Milne.

MON-O-CO-TYL-E'DON, n. [Gr. μονος, sole, and κοτυληδων, a hollow.]

In botany, a plant with only one cotyledon, or seed-lobe.

MO-NOC'RA-SY, n. [Gr. μονος, sole, and κρατεω, to govern.]

Government by a single person.

MON'O-CRAT, n.

One who governs alone.

MO-NOC'U-LAR, or MO-NOCU-LOUS, a. [Gr. μονος, sole, and L. oculus, eye.]

Having one eye only. Howell.