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Any South American monkey of the genus Brachyurus, especially B. ouakari.

A Brazilian monkey of the genus Mycetes.

A variety of the domestic pigeon. Owl monkey (Zoöl.), any one of several species of South American nocturnal monkeys of the genus Nyctipithecus. They have very large eyes. Called also durukuli. -- Owl moth ( (Zoöl.), a very large moth (Erebus strix). The expanse of its wings is over ten inches. -- Owl parrot (Zoöl.),…

A Christian priest or monk; -- used in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Spanish America.

A West African long-tailed monkey (Cercopithecus ruber); the red monkey.

A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.

Having feet resembling hands, or with the first toe opposable, as the opossums and monkeys.

A follower of Pelagius, a British monk, born in the later part of the 4th century, who denied the doctrines of hereditary sin, of the connection between sin and death, and of conversion through grace.

See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]

See Monkey's puzzle. [Written also pignon.]

A division of mammals including the apes and monkeys. Sometimes used in the sense of Primates.

or subfamily Pithecinæ, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys.

A division of monkeys, including the American species, which have a broad nasal septum, thirty-six teeth, and usually a prehensile tail. See Monkey. [Written also Platyrrhini.]

To act with levity or thoughtlessness; to trifle; to be careless. "Nay," quod this monk, "I have no lust to pleye." Chaucer. Men are apt to play with their healths. Sir W. Temple.

d Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World. Pluto monkey (Zoöl.), a long- tailed African monkey (Cercopithecus pluto), having side whiskers. The general color is black, more or less grizzled; the frontal band is white.

melted glass in the pot. Knight. -- Pot plant (Bot.), either of the trees which bear the monkey-pot. -- Pot wheel (Hydraul.), a noria. -- To go to pot, to go to destruction; to come to an end of usefulness; to become refuse. [Colloq.] Dryden. J. G. Saxe.

oom. See Magazine, 2. -- Powder mine, a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine. -- Powder monkey (Naut.), a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy. -- Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry. -- Powder puff. See Puff, n.

Adapted to seize or grasp; seizing; grasping; as, the prehensile tail of a monkey.

The highest order of mammals. It includes man, together with the apes and monkeys. Cf. Pitheci.

The nose. [Jocose] Proboscis monkey. (Zoöl.) See Kahau.