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habiting 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 regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so stric…

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.

A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for mischievous child. This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her. Shak.

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.

See Nepenthes.

The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.

A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery. Totten.

The angel fish (Squatina).

A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).

The character or condition of a monk. Atterbury.

Monkish. [R.] Coleridge.

Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude. -- Monk"ish*ness, n.

Like, or suitable to, a monk. [R.]

A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.

A Benedictine monk.

See Monk seal, under Monk.

A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation.

r convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks. See Abbey.