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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.

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

Admonisher; monitor. Conscience is at most times a very faithful and prudent admonitor. Shenstone.

Admonitory. [R.] "An admonitorial tone." Dickens.

That conveys admonition; warning or reproving; as, an admonitory glance. -- Ad*mon"i*to*ri*ly,, adv.

Calling to mind; giving admonition. [Obs.] Foxe.

The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

One who, or that which, gives premonition.

Giving previous warning or notice; as, premonitory symptoms of disease. -- Pre*mon"i*to*ri*ly, adv.

s of streams and swims actively. It becomes five or six feet long. Called also two-banded monitor, and kabaragoya. The name is also applied to other aquatic monitors.

Admonitory. [R.] Barrow. -- Ad*mon"i*tive*ly, adv.

A female admonitor.

, as of a light vapor, or cold air, rising from the trunk or limbs towards the head, a premonitory symptom of epilepsy or hysterics. Electric ~, a supposed electric fluid, emanating from an electrified body, and forming a mass surrounding it, called the electric atmosphere. See Atmosphere, 2.

Monitory. [Obs.] Only commemorative and commonitive. Bp. Hall.

Serving as a warning; monitory; as, exemplary justice, punishment, or damages.

An antecedent or premonitory gleam; a dawning light. The foregleams of wisdom. Whittier.