Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 66
Monger (n.) A small merchant vessel. [Obs.] -- Blount.
Monger (v. t.) To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.
Monger (n.) Someone who purchases and maintains an inventory of goods to be sold [syn: trader, bargainer, dealer, monger].
Monger (v.) Sell or offer for sale from place to place [syn: peddle, monger, huckster, hawk, vend, pitch].
Mongol (n.) One of the Mongols.
Mongol (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
Mongol (a.) Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax" [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongol (n.) A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongolian (a.) Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
Mongolian (n.) One of the Mongols.
Mongolian (a.) Of or relating to the modern Mongolian People's Republic; "the Mongolian embassy."
Mongolian (a.) Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax" [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongolian (n.) A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia [syn: Mongol, Mongolian].
Mongolian (n.) A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia [syn: Mongolian, Mongolic, Mongolic language].
Mongolic (a.) See Mongolian.
Mongolic (n.) A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia [syn: Mongolian, Mongolic, Mongolic language].
Mongoloid (a.) Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols. -- Huxley.
Mongoloid (a.) Of, related to, or affected with, Down syndrome; -- not a technical term.
Mongoloid (n.) A person affected with Down syndrome; -- not a technical term. Mongols
Mongoloid (a.) Characteristic of or resembling a Mongol; "the mongoloid epicanthic fold."
Mongoloid (a.) Of or pertaining to or characteristic of one of the traditional racial division of humankind including especially peoples of central and eastern Asia.
Mongoloid (a.) Of or relating to or suffering from Down syndrome;
Mongoloid (n.) A member of the Mongoloid race.
Mongoloid (n.) A person suffering from Down syndrome (no longer used technically in this sense).
Mongols (n. pl.) Alt. of Mongolians.
Mongolians (n. pl.) (Ethnol.) One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks. Mongoose
Compare: Ichneumon
Ichneumon (n.) (Zool.) Any carnivorous mammal of the genus Herpestes, and family Viverrid[ae]. Numerous species are found in Asia and Africa. The Egyptian species ({Herpestes ichneumon), which ranges to Spain and Palestine, is noted for destroying the eggs and young of the crocodile as well as various snakes and lizards, and hence was considered sacred by the ancient Egyptians. The common species of India ({Herpestes griseus), known as the mongoose, has similar habits and is often domesticated. It is noted for killing the cobra.
Ichneumon (n.) (Zool.) Any hymenopterous insect of the family Ichneumonid[ae], of which several thousand species are known, belonging to numerous genera.
Note: The female deposits her eggs upon, or in, the bodies of other insects, such as caterpillars, plant lice, etc. The larva lives upon the internal tissues of the insect in which it is parasitic, and finally kills it. Hence, many of the species are beneficial to agriculture by destroying noxious insects.
Ichneumon fly. See Ichneumon, 2.
Ichneumon (n.) Northern African mongoose; in ancient times thought to devour crocodile eggs [syn: ichneumon, Herpestes ichneumon].
Mongoose (n.) Alt. of Mongoos.
Mongoos (n.) (Zool.) A species of ichneumon ({Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose ({Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]
Mongoos (n.) [Tamil manegos.] A Madagascan lemur ({Lemur mongos).
Mongoose (n.) Agile grizzled Old World viverrine; preys on snakes and rodents.
Mongrel (n.) The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
Mongrel (a.) (Zool.) Not of a pure breed.
Mongrel (a.) Of mixed kinds; as, mongrel language.
Mongrel (n.) Derogatory term for a variation that is not genuine; something irregular or inferior or of dubious origin; "the architecture was a kind of bastard suggesting Gothic but not true Gothic" [syn: bastard, mongrel].
Mongrel (n.) An inferior dog or one of mixed breed [syn: cur, mongrel, mutt].
Mongrelize (v. t. & i.) To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.
'Mongst (prep.) See Amongst.
Monied (a.) See Moneyed.
Monifier (n.) A fossil fish.
Moniliform (a.) 【生】念珠形的 Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of {Antenna}.
Moniment (n.) Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Monish (v. t.) To admonish; to warn. See {Admonish}. [Archaic] -- Ascham.
Monish (v.) Warn strongly; put on guard [syn: {caution}, {admonish}, {monish}].
Monish (v.) Admonish or counsel in terms of someone's behavior; "I warned him not to go too far"; "I warn you against false assumptions"; "She warned him to be quiet" [syn: {warn}, {discourage}, {admonish}, {monish}].
Monisher (n.) One who monishes; an admonisher. [Archaic]
Monishment (n.) Admonition. [Archaic]
Monism (n.) (Metaph.) That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; -- the opposite of {dualism}.
Note: The doctrine has been held in three generic forms: matter and its phenomena have been explained as a modification of mind, involving an idealistic monism; or mind has been explained by and resolved into matter, giving a materialistic monism; or, thirdly, matter, mind, and their phenomena have been held to be manifestations or modifications of some one substance, like the substance of Spinoza, or a supposed unknown something of some evolutionists, which is capable of an objective and subjective aspect.
Monism (n.) (Biol.) See {Monogenesis}, 1.
Monism (n.) The doctrine that the universe is an organized unitary being or total self-inclusive structure.
Monism means that the whole of reality, i.e., everything that is, constitutes one inseparable and indivisible entirety. Monism accordingly is a unitary conception of the world. It always bears in mind that our words are abstracts representing parts or features of the One and All, and not separate existences. Not only are matter and mind, soul and body, abstracts, but also such scientific terms as atoms and molecules, and also religious terms such as God and world. -- Paul Carus.
Monogenesis (n.) Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; -- opposed to {polygenesis}. Called also {monism}. -- Dana. -- Haeckel.
Monogenesis (n.) (Biol.) That form of reproduction which requires but one parent, as in reproduction by fission or in the formation of buds, etc., which drop off and form new individuals; asexual reproduction. -- Haeckel.
Monogenesis (n.) (Biol.) The direct development of an embryo, without metamorphosis, into an organism similar to the parent organism; -- opposed to {metagenesis}. -- E. van Beneden.
Monism (n.) The doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element [ant: {pluralism}].
Monist (n.) A believer in monism.
Monistic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.
Monistic (a.) Of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of monism; "the monistic school would regard national law and international law as an integrated whole" -- J.S.Roucek
Monition (n.) Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Monition (n.) Information; indication; notice; advice.
Monition (n.) A process in the nature of a summons to appear and answer.
Monition (n.) An order monishing a party complained against to obey under pain of the law.
Monitive (a.) Conveying admonition; admonitory.
Monitor (n.) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Monitor (n.) Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or class.
Monitor (n.) 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.
Monitor (n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
Monitor (n.) 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.
Monitorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
Monitorial (a.) Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.
Monitorially (adv.) In a monitorial manner.
Monitorship (n.) The post or office of a monitor.
Monitory (a.) Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Monitory (n.) Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
Monitress (n.) Alt. of Monitrix
Monitrix (n.) A female monitor.
Monk (n.) 修道士；僧侶 [C] 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. (ant: nun)
Monk (n.) 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.
Monk (n.) A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
Monk (n.) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.
Monk (n.) The European bullfinch.
Monk (n.) A male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work [syn: {monk}, {monastic}].
Monk (n.) United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982) [syn: {Monk}, {Thelonious Monk}, {Thelonious Sphere Monk}].
Monkeries (n. pl. ) of Monkery.
Monkery (n.) The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach.
Monkery (n.) A collective body of monks.
Monkeys (n. pl. ) of Monkey.
Monkey (n.) (Zool.) In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
Monkey (n.) (Zool.) Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs.
Monkey (n.) (Zool.) Any one of numerous species of Quadrumana (esp. such as have a long tail and prehensile feet) exclusive of apes and baboons.
Note: The monkeys are often divided into three groups: ({a) Catarrhines, or Simidae. These have an oblong head, with the oblique flat nostrils near together. Some have no tail, as the apes. All these are natives of the Old World. ({b) Platyrhines, or Cebidae. These have a round head, with a broad nasal septum, so that the nostrils are wide apart and directed downward. The tail is often prehensile, and the thumb is short and not opposable. These are natives of the New World. ({c) Strepsorhines, or Lemuroidea. These have a pointed head with curved nostrils. They are natives of Southern Asia, Africa, and Madagascar.
Monkey (n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child.
This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her. -- Shak.
Monkey (n.) 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.
Monkey (n.) A small trading vessel of the sixteenth century.
Monkey boat. (Naut.) (a) A small boat used in docks.
Monkey boat. (Naut.) (b) A half-decked boat used on the River Thames.
Monkey block (Naut.), A small single block strapped with a swivel. -- R. H. Dana, Jr.
Monkey flower (Bot.), A plant of the genus Mimulus; -- so called from the appearance of its gaping corolla. -- Gray.
Monkey gaff (Naut.), A light gaff attached to the topmast for the better display of signals at sea.
Monkey jacket, A short closely fitting jacket, worn by sailors.
Monkey rail (Naut.), A second and lighter rail raised about six inches above the quarter rail of a ship.
Monkey shine, monkey trick. [Slang, U.S.]
Monkey trick, A mischievous prank. -- Saintsbury.
Monkey wheel. See Gin block, under 5th Gin.
Monkey (v. t. & i.) To act or treat as a monkey does; to ape; to act in a grotesque or meddlesome manner.
To monkey with, To monkey around with, To handle in a meddlesome manner. [Colloq.]
Monkey-bread (n.) (Bot.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
Monkey-cup (n.) (Bot.) See Nepenthes. monkeypod
Monkey-pot (n.) (Zool.) The fruit of two South American trees ({Lecythis Ollaria, and L. 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.
Monkeypox (n.) 猴痘 A viral disease affecting rodents and primates in rainforest areas of west and central Africa, related to smallpox and sometimes transmitted to humans.
‘Smallpox vaccine has been reported to reduce the risk of monkeypox among previously vaccinated persons in Africa.’
Monkeypox virus (n.) 猴痘病毒 The orthopoxvirus that causes monkeypox. Origin 1950s.
Monkey's puzzle (Bot.) A lofty coniferous Chilian tree ({Araucaria araucana, formerly Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." It is also called monkey puzzle and monkey puzzle tree. The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called pi[~n]on by the Chilians.
Monkeytail (n.) (Naut.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. -- Totten. Monkeywrench
Monkfish (n.) The angel fish (Squatina).
Monkfish (n.) The angler (Lophius).
Monkflower (n.) 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.).
Monkhood (n.) 修道士（或僧侶）之身分；（總稱）修道士；僧侶 The character or condition of a monk.
Monkhood (n.) Monks, regarded collectively.
Monking (a.) Monkish.
Monkish (a.) 修道士（似）的；僧侶（似）的 Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
Monkly (a.) Like, or suitable to, a monk.
Monkshood (n.) A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.
Monk's seam () An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
Mono- () Alt. of Mon-.
Mon- () A prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.
Mono (n.) The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).
Monobasic (a.) 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.
Monocarbonic (a.) Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
Monocardian (a.) Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.
Monocardian (n.) An animal having a single heart.
Monocarp (n.) A monocarpic plant.
Monocarpellary (a.) Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
Monocarpic (a.) Alt. of Monocarpous.
Monocarpous (a.) Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
Monocephalous (a.) Having a solitary head; -- said of unbranched composite plants.
Monoceros (n.) A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.
Monoceros (n.) The Unicorn, a constellation situated to the east Orion.
Monochlamydeous (a.) Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
Monochord (n.) 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.
Monochromatic (a.) Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
Monochrome (n.) A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Monochromic (a.) Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture.
Monochromy (n.) The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.
Monochronic (a.) Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
Monociliated (a.) Having but one cilium.
Monocle (n.) An eyeglass for one eye.