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Abounding in tone or sound.

Consisting of two notes; as, a binotonous cry.

Resembling cotton. [R.] Evelyn.

Electrotonic.

Given to gluttony; eating to excess; indulging the appetite; voracious; as, a gluttonous age. -- Glut"ton*ous*ly, adv. -- Glut"ton*ous*ness, n.

Of the same tenor or tone; equable; without variation.

Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ly, adv. -- Mo*not"o*nous*ness, n.

A bird of the family Ampelidæ -- so called from its monotonous note. The Bohemion chatterer (Ampelis garrulus) inhabits the arctic regions of both continents. In America the cedar bird is a more common species. See Bohemian chatterer, and Cedar bird.

A voracious eater; a glutton, or gluttonous servant. B. Jonson.

Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall. "The ground is a dead flat." C. Reade.

nts. The public listened with little emotion, but with much civility, to five acts of monotonous declamation. Macaulay.

he sound of, or as of, repeated strokes on a metallic body, as a bell; a repeated and monotonous sound.

A lengthened, slow monotonous utterance.

That which gives out a grave or monotonous tone or dull sound; as:

A monotonous refrain. [Obs.] Holland.

Unanimated; dull; uninteresting; without point or spirit; monotonous; as, a flat speech or composition. How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Shak.

To eat gluttonously or to satiety. Like three horses that have broken fence, And glutted all night long breast-deep in corn. Tennyson.

Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing. "Glutton souls." Dryden. A glutton monastery in former ages makes a hungry ministry in our days. Fuller.

Gluttonous; greedy. Sir P. Sidney.

Gluttonous; voracious. Pope.