The first that there did greet my stranger soul, Was my great father-in-law, renowned Warwick, Who cried aloud, What scourge for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence? Shakspeare. This small inheritance Contenteth nie, aud's worth a monarchy. Shak. MONASTERY. n. s. [monastere, Fr. monasteriam, Lat.] House of religious retirement; convent; abbey; cloister. It is usually pronounced, and often written, monastry. Then courts of kings were held in high re nown; There, virgins honourable vows receiv'd, But chaste as maids in monasteries liv'd. Dryden. In a monastery your devotions cannot carry you so far toward the next world, as to make this lose the sight of you. Pope. MONASTICAL. adj. [monastique, Fr. moMONA STICK. nasticus, Lat.] Religiously recluse; pertaining to a monk. I drave my suitor to forswear the full stream of the world, and to live in a nook merely monastick. Shakspeare. The silicious and hairy vests of the strictest orders of friers derive the institution of their monastick life from the example of John aud Elias. When young, you led a life monastick, Brown. } Denham. MONASTICALLY. adv. [from monastick.] Reclusely; in the manner of a monk. I have a dozen years more to answer for, all monastically passed in this country of liberty and delight. Swift. MONDAY. H. J. [from moon and day.] The second day of the week. MONEY. n.s. [monnoye, Fr. moneta, Lat. It has properly no plural except when money is taken for a single piece; but monies was formerly used for sums.] Metal coined for the purposes of com merce. Importune him for monies; be not ceast I will give thee the worth of it in money. Wives the readiest helps To betray heady husbands, rob the easy If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed; for where goods do not, silver must pay for the commodities you spend. Locke. Several turned their money into those funds, merchants as well as other moneyed men. Swift. With these measures fell in all monied men; such as had raised vast sums by trading with stocks and funds, and lending upon great inteSwift. Mo'NEYER. n. s. [monnoyer-eur, Fr. from money.] rest. 1. One that deals in money; a banker. The strong expectation of a good certain sa lary will outweigh the loss by bad rents reStrift ceived out of lands in moneyless times. MONEYMATTER. n. s. [money and matter] Account of debror and creditor. What if you and I Nick should enquire how moneymatters stand between us? Arbuthnot. MONEYSCRIVENER. n. 5. [money and scrivener.] One who raises money for others. Suppose a young unexperienced man in the hands of moneyscriveners, such fellows are like your wire-drawing mills, if they get hold of a man's finger, they will pull in his whole body at Arbuthnot. last. Mo'NEYWORT. n. s. A plant. There is either money or moneysworth in all the controversies of life; for we live in a mercenary world, and it is the price of all things in it. L'Estrange Mo'NGCORN. 2. s. [mang, Saxon, and corn.] Mixed corn: as, wheat and rye; miscellane, or maslin. My discourse to the hen-peck has produced Mo'NGER. 2. 5. [mangene, Sax. a trader; many correspondents; such a discourse is of general use, and every married man's money. Addison. Shall I withhold a little money or food from from mangian, Sax. to trade.] A dealer; a seller. It is seldom or never used alone, or otherwise than after the name Addison. Swift. His friendships still to few confin'd, Were always of the middling kind; No fols of rank, or mongrel breed, Who fain would pass for lords indeed. Mo'NIMENT. n. 5. [from moneo, Lat.] It seems here to signify inscription. Some others were driven and distent Into great ingots and to wedges square, Some in round plates withouten moniment. Spenser. Mo'NISH. v. a. [moneo, Lat.] To admonish, or which it is a contraction. Marish him gently, which shall make him beth willing to amend, and glad to go forward in love. Aschum. MO NISHER. n. s. [from monish.] An admonisher; a monitor. MONITION. n. s. [monitio, Lat. monition, French.] 1. Information; hint. We have no visible monition of the returns of any other periods, such as we have of the day, by successive light and darkness. Holder on Time. 2. Instruction; document. Uaruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself. L'Estrange. Then after sare monitions from his friends, His talents to employ for nobler ends, He turns to politicks his dang'rous wit. Swift. MONITOR. n. s. [Lat.] One who warns of faults, or informs of duty; one who gives useful hints. It is used of an upper scholar in a school commissioned by the master to look to the boys in his absence. You need not be a monitor to the king; his learning is eminent: be bu his scholar, and you are safe. Bacon. It was the privilege of Adam innocent to have these notions also firm and untainted, to carry lis snitor in his bosom, his law in his heart, and to have such a conscience as might be its own casuist. South. We can but divine who it is that speaks; whether Persius himself, or his friend and monitor, er a third person. Dryden. The pains that come from the necessities of nature, are monitors to us to beware of greater mischiefs. Locke. MONITORY. adj. [monitoire, Fr. monito rius, Lat.] Conveying useful instruction; giving admonition. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange. He is so taken up still, in spite of the monitory hint in my essay, with particular men, that he neglects mankind. Pope. MONITORY. n. s. Admonition; warning. A king of Hungary took a bishop in battle, and kept him prisoner; whereupon the pope writ a monitory to him, for that he had broken the privilege of holy church. Bacon. MONK. 2. s. [monec, Sax. monachus, Lat. Morayos.]. One of a religious community bound by vows to certain obser vances. "Twould prove the verity of certain words, Spoke by a holy monk. Shaksp. Abdemeleck, as one weary of the world, gave over all, and betook himself to a solitary life, and became a melancholy Mahometan monk. Knolles. The dronish monks, the scorn and shame of manhood, Rouse and prepare once more to take possession, And nestle in their ancient hives again. Rowe. 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. MONKERY. n. s. [from monk.] The monastick life. Neither do I meddle with their evangelical perfection of vows, nor the dangerous servitude of their rash and impotent votaries, nor the inconveniences of their markery. Hall. MONKEY. n. s. monikin, a little man.] 1. An ape; a baboon; a jackanapes. An animal bearing some resemblance of This is the monkey's own giving out; she is Shaksp persuaded I will marry her. Poor monkey! how wilt thou do for a father? Shakspeare. Mo'NK HOOD. n. s. [monk and lood.] The character of a monk. He had left off his monkbood too, and was no longer obliged to them. Atterbury. MONKISH. adj. [trom merk.] Monastick; pertaining to monks; taught by monks. Those publick charities are a greater ornament to this city than all its wealth, and do more real honour to the reformed religion, than redounds to the church of Rome from all those monkish and superstitious foundations of which she vainly boasts. Atterbury. Rise, rise, Roscommon, see the Blenheim muse, The dull constraint of monkish rhyme refuse. Smith MONKS-HOOD. n. s. [consolida regalis.] A Ainsworth. A species of in medicine. and x2ęd.]. plant. MONKS-RHUBARB. N. 5. dock: its roots are used MONOCHORD. n. s. [uó 1. An instrument of one string: as, the trumpet marine. Harris. 2. A kind of instrument anciently of singular use for the regulating of sounds. The ancients made use of the monochord to determine the proportion of sounds to one anether. When the chord was divided into two equal parts, so that the terms were as one to one, they called them unisons; but if as two to one, they called them octaves or diapasons; when they were as three to two, they called them fifths or diapentes; if they were as four to three, they called them fourths or diatesserons; if as five to four, they called it diton, or a tierce-major; but if as six to five, then they called it a demiditon, or a tierce-minor; and lastly, if the terms were as twenty-four to twenty-five, they called it a demiton or dieze; the monochord being thus divided, was properly that which they called a system, of which there were many kinds, according to the different divisions of the monochord. Harris. MONOCULAR, only one eye. One-eyed; having He was well served who, going to cut down an antient white hawthorn tree, which, because she budded before others, might be an occasion of superstition, had some of the prickles flew into his eyes, and made him monocular. Horvel. Those of China repute the rest of the world monoculous. Glanville. Mo'NODY. n. s. [uovada; monodie, Fr.] A poem sung by one person not in dialogue. MONO GAMIST. n. s. [μóv and you; monogame, Fr.] One who disallows second marriages. MONO GAMY.. s. [monogamie, Fr. uór and yaut.] Marriage of one wife. Mo'NOGRAM. n. s. [u and yęáμμa; monogramme, Fr.] A cipher; a character compounded of several letters. MONO LOGUE. n. s. [uor and λy; monologue, Fr.] A scene in which a person of the drama speaks by himself; a soliloquy. He gives you an account of himself, and of his returning from the country, in monologue; to which unnatural way of narration Terence is subject in all his plays. Dryden. ΜΟΝΟ MACHY. n. s. [μονομαχία; μόνο and pan.] A duel; a single combat. Mo'NOME. . S. [monome, Fr.] In algebra, a quantity that has but one denomination or name; as, a b, a ab, a a a b. Harris. MONOPE TALOUS, adj. [monopetale, Fr. με G and πέταλον.] It is used for such flowers as are formed out of one leaf, howsoever they may be seemingly cut into many sinall ones, and those fall off together. Quincy. MONO POLIST. n. s. [monopoleur, Fr.] One who by engrossing or patent ob tains the sole power or privilege of vending any commodity. To MONO POLIZE. v. a. [and whi; monopoler, Fr.] To have the sole power or privilege of vending any commodity. He has such a prodigious trade, that if there is not some stop put, he will monopolize; nobody will sell a yard of drapery, or mercery ware, but himself. Arbuthnot, MONO'POLY. M. s. [μονοπωλία; monopole, Fr. po and whew.] The exclusive privilege of selling any thing. If I had a monopoly on't they would have part on't. Shakspeare. How could he answer 't, should the state think fit, To question a monopoly of wit? Cowley. One of the most oppressive monopolies imagi nable; all others can concern only something without us, but this fastens upon our nature, yea upon our reason. Govern. of the Tongue. case. Shakspeare rather writ happily than knowingly and justly; and Jonson, who, by studying Horace, had been acquainted with the rules, yet seemed to envy to posterity that knowledge, and to make a monopoly of his learning. Dryden. ΜΟΝΟ ΡΤΟΤΕ. n. s. [μόνΘ and πλωσις.] Α noun used only in some one oblique Clarke's Latin Grammar. MONO'STICH. n. s. [μovósliyov.] A composition of one verse. MONOSYLLA BICAL. adj. [from monosyllable.] Consisting of words of one syllable. MONOSY'LLABLE. n. s. [monosyllabe, Fr. μόνω and συλλαβη.] A word of only one syllable. My name of Ptolemy! It is so long it asks an hour to write it: Dryden. Poets, although not insensible how much our language was already over-stocked with monosyl lables, yet, to save time and pains, introduced that barbarous custom of abbreviating words, to fit them to the measure of their verses. Swijt. Monosyllable lines, unless artfully managed, are stiff or languishing; but may be beautiful to express melancholy. Pope MONOSYLLABLED. adj. [monosyllabe, Fr. from monosyllable.] Consisting of one syllable. Nine taylors, if rightly spell'd, Into one man are monosyllabled. Cleaveland, ΜΟΝΟ ΤΟΝΥ. Π. s. [μονολογία ; μόνο and Tó; monotonie, Fr.] Uniformity of sound; want of variety in cadence. I could object to the repetition of the sam❤ rhimes within four lines of each other as tiresome to the ear through their monotony. Pope. MOʻNSIEUR. n. s. [Fr.] A term of re proach for a Frenchman. A Frenchman his companion; An eminent monsieur, that, it seems, much loves A Gallian girl. Shakspear MONSOON. n. s. [monson, monçon, Fr.) Monsoons are shifting trade winds in the East Indian ocean, which blow periodically; some for half a year one way, others but for three months, and then shift and blow for six or three months directly contrary. The monsoons and trade winds are constant and periodical even to the thirtieth degree of latitude all around the globe, and seldom transgress or fall short of those bounds. Ray MONSTER. n.s. {mønstre, Fr. monstrum, Latin.] 1. Something out of the common order of nature. Methinks heroic poesie till now, Gods, devils, nymphs, witches, and giants race, It ought to be determined whether monsters be really a distinct species; we find, that some of these monstrous productions have none of those qualities that accompany the essence of that species from whence they derive. Locke. 2. Something horrible for deformity, wickedness, or mischief. If she live long, And, in the end, meet the old course of death, Women will all turn monsters. Shaksp. Pope. All human virtue, to its latest breath, Finds Envy never conquer'd but by death: The great Alcides, ev'ry labour past, Had still this monster to subdue at last. To MONSTER. v. a. [from the noun.] To put out of the common order of things. Not in use. Her offence Must be of such unnatural degree, That monsters it. Shaksp. Shaksp I had rather have one scratch my head i' th' sun, When the alarum were struck, than idly sit To hear my nothings monster'd. MONSTROSITY. n.s. [from monstrous.] MONSTRUOSITY. The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of the universe. Monstrosity is more analogous. This is the monstruosity in love, that the will is infinite, and the execution confin'd. Shaksp. Such a tacit league is against such routs and shoals of people, as have utterly degenerated from nature, as have in their very body and frame of estate a monstrosity. Bacon. We read of monstrous births, but we often see a greater monstrosity in educations: thus, when a father has begot a man, he trains him up into a beast. South. By the same law monstrosity could not incapacitate from marriage, witness the case of hermaphrodites. Arbuthnot and Pope Mo'NSTROUS. adj. [monstreux, Fr. monstrosus, Latin.] 1. Deviating from the stated order of na ture. O monstrous? but one halfpenny worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack. Shaksp. 3. Irregular; enormous. No monstrous height, or breadth, or length appear, The whole at once is bold and regular. 4. Shocking; hateful. Pope. This was an invention given out by the Spaniards, to save the monstrous scorn their nation received. Bacon. Mo'NSTROUS. adv. Exceedingly; very much. A cant term. Oil of vitriol and petroleum, a dram of each, turn into a mouldy substance, there residing a fair cloud in the bottom, and a monstrous thick oil on the top. Bacon. She was easily put off the hooks, and monstrous hard to be pleased again. L'Estrange. Add, that the rich have still a gibe in store, And will be monstrous witty on the poor. Dryd. Mo'NSTROUSLY, adv. [from monstrous.] 1. In a manner out of the common order of nature; shockingly; terribly; horribly. South. Tiberius was bad enough in his youth, but superlatively and monstrously so in his old age. 2. To a great or enormous degree. He walks; And that self-chain about his neck, Which he forswore most monstrously to have. Shakspeare These truths with his example you disprove Who with his wife is monstrously in love. Dryd. MONSTROUSNESS. n. s. [from monstrous.] Enormity; irregular nature or beha viour. See the monstrousness of man, When he looks out in an ungrateful shape! Shakspeare. MOʻNTANT. n. s. [Fr.] A term in fencing. Vat be all you, one, two, tree, four, come for? -To see thee fight, to see thee pass thy puncto, Thy stock, thy traverse, thy distance, thy montant. MONTE RO. n. s. [Spanish.] A horseShakspeare man's cap. His hat was like a helmet, or Spanish montero. Bacon. MONTE TH. n. s. [from the name of the inventor.] A vessel in which glasses are washed. New things produce new words, and thus : Has by one vessel sav'd his name from death. King. MONTH, n. s. [monað, Sax.] A space of time either measured by the sun or moon the lunar month is the time between the change and change, or the time in which the moon comes to the same point: the solar month is the time in which the sun passes through a sign of the zodiack: the calendar months, by which we reckon time, are un. equally of thirty or one-and-thirty days, except February, which is of twentyeight, and in leap year of twenty-nine. Till the expiration of your month, Sojourn with my sister. Shaksp. From a month old even unto five years old. Leviticus. When the sun begins to fling His faring beams, me, goddess, bring Milton. The destruction of the earth was the most monumental proof that could have been given to all the succeeding ages of mankind. Woodward. The polish'd pillar different sculptures grace, A work outlasting monumental brass. Pope 2. Raised in honour of the dead; belonging to a tomb. Perseverance keeps honour bright: To have done, is to hang quite out of fashion Softly may he be possest Of his monumental rest. Shaksp. Crashaw. 5. She was in fittest mood Hudibras. For cutting corns, or letting blood. I bear, of which the furies give him good. Dryd. In suppliant mood fell prostrate at our feet. Addi. That which we move for our better instruction's sake, turneth into anger and choler in them; yet in their mood they cast forth somewhat wherewith, under pain of greater displeasure, we must rest contented. Hooker. Mo'oDY. adj. [from mood.] 1. Angry; out of humour. |