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One who monishes; an admonisher. [Archaic]

Admonition. [Archaic]

See Monogenesis, 1.

A believer in monism.

Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.

Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions from his friends. Swift.

Conveying admonition; admonitory. Barrow.

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.

A nozzle capable of turning completely round in a horizontal plane and having a limited play in a vertical plane, used in hydraulic mining, fire-extinguishing apparatus, etc.

Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.

In a monitorial manner.

The post or office of a monitor.

Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

A female monitor.

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…

An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.

The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

aucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called piñon by the Chilians.

The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.