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An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.

The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.

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.

A noun having only one case. Andrews.

Having but a single stone or kernel.

Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.

The Marsipobranchiata.

A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.

t decomposable into simpler sugars by hydrolysis. Specif., as used by some, a hexose. The monosaccharides are all open-chain compounds containing hydroxyl groups and either an aldehyde group or a ketone group.

Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

A monospermous plant.

Having only one seed.

Consisting of one sphere only.

A composition consisting of one verse only.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.

Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton.

A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; -- contrasted with a Ant: polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.

See Monosulphide.