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Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life. -- Mon`as*te"ri*al*ly, adv.

A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females.

A monk.

Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.

In a monastic manner.

The monastic life, system, or condition. Milman.

A book giving an account of monasteries.

Of or pertaining to the region of the eye and the nose; as, the oculonasal, or nasal, nerve, one of the branches of the ophthalmic.

Of or pertaining to the orbit and the nose; as, the orbitonasal, or ophthalmic, nerve.

A genus of herbs growing in wet places, and having white flowers; grass of Parnassus.

Of or pertaining to Parnassus.

Same as Parnassian.

nd the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]

Treatment for restoring or improving the voice.

A disproportionately rapid growth of the upper surface of dorsiventral organs, such as leaves, through the stimulus of exposure to light. Encyc. Brit.

A species of pine (Pinus Pinaster) growing in Southern Europe.

Redundancy of language in speaking or writing; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

One who is addicted to pleonasm. [R.] C. Reade.