Mon"true (?), n. [F., fr. monter to mount. See Montoir.] That on which
anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [Obs.] Spenser.
Mon"u*ment (?), n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind,
admonish. See Monition, and cf. Moniment.] 1. Something which stands,
or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
Of ancient British art A pleasing monument.
Philips.
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.
Shak.
2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the
remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington
monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial
inscriptions.
On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all
rites That appertain unto a burial.
Shak.
3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to
mark a boundary.