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To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.

Relating to, or involving, monogenesis; as, the monogenetic school of physiologists, who admit but one cell as the source of all beings.

A little moon. [R.] Bp. Hall.

The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.

A small mountain. [R.]

A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.

Nine and ten; eighteen and one more; one less than twenty; as, nineteen months.

Constituting or being one of nineteen equal parts into which anything is divided.

Constituting or being one of ninety equal parts.

Nine times ten; eighty-nine and one more; as, ninety men.

A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.

The titmouse. [Obs.]

Scarcely. See Unnethe. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Of or pertaining to ontogenesis; as, ontogenetic phenomena. -- On`to*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Same as Alkanet, 2. Ainsworth.

A little orphan. Drayton.

Connected with osteogenesis, or the formation of bone; producing bone; as, osteogenetic tissue; the osteogenetic layer of the periosteum.

Producing young while in the immature or larval state; -- said of certain insects, etc.

Of or pertaining to palingenesis: as, a palingenetic process. -- Pal`in*ge*net"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to pangenesis.