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s; 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.

Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; -- said esp. of a temple.

A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.

The act of demonstrating; proof. [Obs.] A certain monstration. Grafton.

One of the square logs of wood used in a pile to support the roof of a mine.

h only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone.

The act of objurgating; reproof. While the good lady was bestowing this objurgation on Mr.Ben Allen. Dickens. With a strong objurgation of the elbow in his ribs. Landor.

Designed to objurgate or chide; containing or expressing reproof; culpatory. Bancroft. The objurgatory question of the Pharisees. Paley.

condition induced by the crowding together of many persons, esp. sick persons, under one roof. G. Gregory.

ived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

A kind of theater in ancient Greece, smaller than the dramatic theater and roofed over, in which poets and musicians submitted their works to the approval of the public, and contended for prizes; -- hence, in modern usage, the name of a hall for musical or dramatic performances.

red or treated with oil; dressed with, or soaked in, oil. Oiled silk, silk rendered waterproof by saturation with boiled oil.

Cloth made waterproof by oil.

us probandi ( Etym: [L.], obligation to furnish evidence to prove a thing; the burden of proof.

has a pitch about an octave higher than a closed pipe of the same length. -- Open-timber roof (Arch.), a roof of which the constructional parts, together with the under side of the covering, or its lining, are treated ornamentally, and left to form the ceiling of an apartment below, as in a church, a public hall, and…

where it was given. The oracles are dumb; No voice or hideous hum Runs through the arched roof in words deceiving. Milton.

Waterproof leggings. R. D. Blackmore.

Specifically: The projection of an upper part (as a roof, an upper story, or other part) of a building beyond the lower part; as, the overhang of a roof, of the eaves, etc.

Aloft; above; in or attached to the ceiling or roof; in the story or upon the floor above; in the zenith. While overhead the moon Sits arbitress. Milton.

pping of one thing over another; as, an overlap of six inches; an overlap of a slate on a roof.