We have no visible monition of . . . other periods, such as we have
of the day by successive light and darkness.
Holder.
3. (Admiralty Practice) A process in the nature of a summons to appear
and answer.
4. (Eccl. Law) An order monishing a party complained against to obey
under pain of the law. Shipley.
Mon"i*tive (?), a. Conveying admonition; admonitory. Barrow.
Mon"i*tor (?), n. [L., fr. monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.] 1.
One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives
advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
You need not be a monitor to the king.
Bacon.
2. 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.
3. (Zoöl.) 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.
4. [So called from the name given by Captain Ericson, its designer, to
the first ship of the kind.] An ironclad war vessel, very low in the
water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets,
carrying heavy guns.
5. (Mach.) 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.
Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of a car roof,
having low windows along its sides.
Mon`i*to"ri*al (?), a. 1. Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
2. Done or performed by a monitor; as, monitorial work; conducted or
taught by monitors; as, a monitorial school; monitorial instruction.
Mon`i*to"ri*al*ly, adv. In a monitorial manner.
Mon"i*tor*ship (?), n. The post or office of a monitor.
Mon"i*to*ry (?), a. [L. monitorius.] Giving admonition; instructing by
way of caution; warning.
Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and
instructive.
L'Estrange.
Mon"i*to*ry, n. Admonition; warning; especially, a monition proceeding
from an ecclesiastical court, but not addressed to any one person.
{ Mon"i*tress (?), Mon"i*trix (?), } n. A female monitor.
Monk (?), n. [AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. &?;, fr. mo`nos
alone. Cf. Monachism.] 1. 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. "A monk out of his
cloister." Chaucer.
Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial
vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ;
for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a
rule of life as monks are.
Ayliffe.
2. (Print.) 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.
3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or
train of a mine.
4. (Zoöl.) (a) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also
applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus. (b) The European
bullfinch.
Monk bat (Zoöl.), a South American and West Indian bat (Molossus
nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by
themselves. -- Monk bird(Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- Monk seal (Zoöl.),
a species of seal (Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the
Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. -- Monk's
rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex
Patientia).
Monk"er*y (?), n.; pl. Monkeries (&?;). 1. The life of monks; monastic
life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of
reproach.
Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries.
Carlyle.