<B>moniliasis, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an infection caused by a type of fungus, affecting different parts of the body, including the skin, mucous membrane, lungs, vagina, and gastrointestinal tract; candidiasis. Thrush is a form of moniliasis. <DD><B> 2. </B>mycosis of the digestive tract of poultry. </DL>
<A NAME="moniliform">
<B>moniliform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> resembling a string of beads, as certain roots or pods, which have a series of swellings alternating regularly with contractions. adv. <B>moniliformly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="monish">
<B>monish, </B>transitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) to admonish. </DL>
<A NAME="monism">
<B>monism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Philosophy.) <DD><B> 1. </B>the doctrine that the universe can be explained by one substance or principle, such as matter, mind, or some other single thing or force. <DD><B> 2. </B>the doctrine that reality is an indivisible, universal organism. </DL>
<A NAME="monist">
<B>monist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who believes in monism. </DL>
<A NAME="monistic">
<B>monistic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with monism. adv. <B>monistically.</B> </DL>
<B>monition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>admonition; warning. <BR> <I>Ex. sage monitions from his friends (Jonathan Swift); the monitions of Christianity (Herman Melville).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an official or legal notice: <DD><B> a. </B>a formal court order or summons to appear and answer, as after a complaint has been filed, or to confirm title and silence adverse claims, or to commence a suit. <DD><B> b. </B>a formal notice from a bishop to one of his subordinates to require the amendment of some ecclesiastical offense. <BR> <I>Ex. The bishop sent a monition to three clergymen.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="monitor">
<B>monitor, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a pupil in school with special duties, such as helping to keep order and taking attendance. <BR> <I>Ex. Several of the older boys in school serve as monitors on the playground.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who gives advice or warning. <BR> <I>Ex. The Teamsters Union, which has been battling to rid itself of court-appointed monitors (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>something that reminds or gives warning. <BR> <I>Ex. Conscience ... a most importunate monitor, paying no respect to persons and making cowards of us all (Frederick Marryat).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a low, armored warship having one or more revolving turrets, each with one or two heavy guns. It was used chiefly in the late 1800's. <DD><B> 5. </B>any one of a family of large, carnivorous lizards of Africa, southern Asia, Australia, Indonesia, New Guinea, and the Solomon Islands. Monitors are from 4 to 10 feet long, have a forked tongue and the habit of swallowing their prey without chewing it, and exhibit other snakelike characteristics. They are the only living genus of their family, the dragon lizard or dragon of Komodo being the most familiar, and are known to have lived in America from the fossils found in Wyoming. <BR> <I>Ex. All of the zoo's tenants were at their best, but the ... giant lizards or monitors virtually stole the show (New York Times).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>a receiver or other device used for checking and listening to radio or television transmissions, telephone messages, or other electronic signals as they are recorded or broadcast. <BR> <I>Ex. When a monitor or headphone connection is provided, it will be "live" even during recording (Roy J. Hoopes).</I> <DD><B> 7. </B>a cathode-ray tube serving as a computer output device. <BR> <I>Ex. Displays, whether on a TV screen or a monitor, typically show 23 to 25 rows (a row is the equivalent of a line of type on a paper page) (Consumer Reports).</I> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> <B>1a. </B>to check and listen to (radio or television transmissions, telephone messages, or other electronic signals) by using a monitor, specially to check the quality, wave frequency, or the like. <DD><B> b. </B>to listen to (broadcasts or telephone messages) for censorship, military significance, or other surveillance. <BR> <I>Ex. He noted that agency investigators have been monitoring broadcasts and telecasts since last fall (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Physics.) to test the intensity of radiations, especially of radiations produced by radioactivity. <DD><B> 3. </B>to check in order to control something. <BR> <I>Ex. Hearing aids now play a life-saving role in the operating room by monitoring the breathing of unconscious surgical patients (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="monitorial">
<B>monitorial, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with a monitor. <BR> <I>Ex. monitorial duties.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>using monitors. <DD><B> 3. </B>serving to admonish or warn. adv. <B>monitorially.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="monitorship">
<B>monitorship, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the office, work, or period of service of a monitor. </DL>
<A NAME="monitory">
<B>monitory, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> admonishing; warning. <BR> <I>Ex. the monitory growl of a dog. The mottoes of their families are monitory proverbs (Emerson).</I> (SYN) admonitory. <DD><I>noun </I> a letter containing admonition, as from the Pope or a bishop; monitory letter. </DL>
<A NAME="monitoryletter">
<B>monitory letter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a monitory; letter containing admonition, sent by the Pope or a bishop. </DL>
<A NAME="monitress">
<B>monitress, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a girl who is a monitor at school. <DD><B> 2. </B>a girl or woman who gives advice or warning. </DL>
<A NAME="monk">
<B>monk, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a man who gives up everything else for religion and enters a monastery to live a life of prayer and worship. Monks live either in solitude as hermits or as members of a religious order and are bound by the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a superior. (SYN) cenobite. </DL>
<A NAME="monkery">
<B>monkery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=monasticism.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=monastery.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>monks as a group. <BR><I>expr. <B>monkeries,</B> </I>monastic practices or customs. </DL>
<A NAME="monkey">
<B>monkey, </B>noun, pl. <B>-keys,</B> verb, <B>-keyed,</B> <B>-keying.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an animal of the group most like man. Monkeys are mammals and range from the anthropoid apes to the marmosets, but exclude man and, usually, the lemurs. <DD><B> 2. </B>one of the smaller mammals in this group, usually having a long tail. Monkeys are distinguished from the chimpanzee, gorilla, or other large ape. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a person, especially a child, who is full of mischief. <BR> <I>Ex. That little monkey ate a piece of pie while my back was turned.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the fur of various long-haired monkeys, often used as trimming. <DD><B> 5. </B>any one of various machines or implements, especially the heavy hammer or ram of a pile driver. <DD><B> 6. </B>a small passageway in a coal mine. <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Informal.) <B>1. </B>to play in a mischievous way; fool; trifle. <BR> <I>Ex. Don't monkey with the television.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to meddle or tinker. <BR> <I>Ex. He didn't think much of the thing, and never monkeyed with it (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to copy, as monkeys do; mimic; ape. <BR><I>expr. <B>make a monkey</B> (<B>out</B>) <B>of,</B> </I>(Informal.) to make (a person) look foolish; make a fool of. <BR> <I>Ex. He had mocked the laws and made monkeys out of the lawmen (Time).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>monkey on one's back,</B> (U.S. Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>the burden of drug addiction. </I> <I>Ex. The patient goes back on drugs again ... , more convinced than ever that the monkey on his back can't be removed by any means (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>any strong addiction viewed as a burden. <BR> <I>Ex. Smokers may not have a full-sized monkey on their back but what they do have is just as hard to get rid of (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> c. </B>any intolerable burden. <BR> <I>Ex. Sometimes the pseudoliberal can become a monkey on your back (Floyd McKissick).</I> adj. <B>monkeylike.</B> </DL>
<B>monkey cup,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pitcher plant of the Old World. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeydog">
<B>monkey dog,</B> <B>=affenpinscher.</B></DL>
<A NAME="monkeyeatingeagle">
<B>monkey-eating eagle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large eagle of the Philippines, similar to the harpy eagle, that feeds on large birds and monkeys. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeyengine">
<B>monkey engine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a form of pile driver having a ram or monkey working in a wooden frame. <DD><B> 2. </B>the engine which lifts such a ram or monkey. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeyfacedowl">
<B>monkey-faced owl, =barn owl.</B></DL>
<A NAME="monkeyflower">
<B>monkey flower,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of plants and small shrubs of the figwort family, often grown for their brilliant flowers, which are spotted so as to suggest a grimace, as a Chilean species with deep-yellow flowers and the musk plant, native to the western United States. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeyish">
<B>monkeyish, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> like a monkey, especially in imitativeness or mischievousness. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeyism">
<B>monkeyism, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> monkeylike character or behavior. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeyjacket">
<B>monkey jacket,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a short, close-fitting jacket of heavy, coarse material, formerly worn by sailors. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeynut">
<B>monkey nut,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) the peanut. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeypod">
<B>monkeypod, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tropical shade tree of the pea family that may spread as much as 100 feet across; rain tree. It grows from southern Florida to Brazil and has a stout trunk, pink and white flowers, and leaves that fold up at night and on cloudy days. <DD><B> 2. </B>the wood of this tree. </DL>
<A NAME="monkeypot">
<B>monkeypot, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the large, woody, urn-shaped fruit, containing several edible seeds, of any one of various large tropical trees. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of these trees, related to the Brazil-nut tree. </DL>
