moneyless 
2. Acting or operating otherwise than through 
money; Beyond the range of money influence. 
Bribery and corruption solicits, paltrliiK the free and 
moniletae power of discipline with a carnall satisfaction 
by the purae. ailton, Church-Uoverument ii. 8. 
money-maker (muu'i-ma*ker), . 1. A coiner 
of counterfeit money. Uallitrell. 2. One who 
accumulates money. 
money-making (inun'i-ina'king), . The act 
or process of accumulating money or acquir- 
ing wealth. 
The Jews were the tint; their strange obstlnancy 111 
muney-making made them his perpetual victims. 
MiliiMn, Latin Christianity, xl. 8. 
money-making ( mun ' i - ma " king), a. Lucra- 
tive; profitable: as, a money-making business. 
money-market (mun'i-mar'ket), . The mar- 
ket or iicld for the investment or employment 
of money; the sphere within which financial 
operations are carried on. 
money-matter (mun'i-mat'er), n. A matter 
or affair involving the relationship of debtor 
and creditor; something in which money is 
concerned. 
What if you and I, Nick, should Inquire how money- 
nuttier* stand between us? Arkuthnot, Hist John Bull. 
money-monger (mun'i-mung'ger), n. A dealer 
in money ; a usurer. DanV.-. 
Thievery needs no more than the name to prove It a 
water of stealth, ... a sin which usurers and money- 
nwityers do bitterly rail at. Ken. T, Adams, Works, I. Ib6. 
money-mongering (nmu'i-mung"ger-ing), M. 
Dealing with money ( in a grasping way). Da vies. 
Ilir last place in which he will look for the cause of his 
misery is in that very money-mongering to which he now 
clings as frantically as ever. Kingtley, Yeaat, xv. 
money-order (mun'i-or'der), n. An order, pay- 
able at sight, granted, upon payment of the 
sum and a small commission, by one post-office, 
and payable at another Honey-order office, 
(a) In the United States, a division of the post-office de- 
partment of the government, the office of the superin- 
tendent of the money-order system. (6) A money-order 
post-office. Money-order post-office, in the United 
States, a post-office designated by the Postiuaster-Qeueral 
to issue and pay money-orders. 
money-pot (muu'i-pot), . A money-box, espe- 
cially of earthenware, from which coins can be 
taken only by breaking the vessel. 
money-scrivener (muu'i-skriv'ner), . A per- 
son who raises money for others; a money- 
broker. 
Suppose a young unexperienced man In the hands of 
rnoneyscriixners ; such fellows are like your wire-drawing 
mills ; if they get hold of a man's Hnger, they will pull in 
his whole body at last Arkuthnot, Hist John Bull. 
money-spider (mun'i-spi'der). n. A small spi- 
der of the family Attidix, Epiblemum sccnicum, 
of common occurrence in North America, sup- 
posed to prognosticate good luck or the receipt 
of money to the person it crawls on. 
money-spinner (mun'i-spin'er), n. Same as 
money's-worth (mun'iz-werth). n. 1. Some- 
thing as good as money, or that will bring 
money. 
There Is cither money or uioney'i-tcorth in all the contro- 
versies of life. Sir K. L'Ettrange. 
2. Full value; something that is worth what 
one pays for it. 
money-taker (mun'i-ta'ker), . 1. One whose 
office it is to receive payments of money ; es- 
pecially, a doorkeeper at some public place who 
receives the money for admissions. 2t. One 
who is open to bribery. 
Sayth master many-taker, greasd I' i If flat, 
"And if thofu] comst in danger, for a noble 
He stand thy friend." 
Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 48. 
moneywort (mun'i-wert), H. The creeping 
herb Lysimachia Xummularia: so called from 
its round leaves. See Ly.timachia, creeping- 
jenny, and herb-twopence. The name is given also 
to several other plants, as Tfiymus chamcedryg, Anagallin 
tenetta, etc. Cornish moneywort, SBUorpia Kuropcea. 
mong 1 (mung), n. [Also maiig: < ME. mong, 
nnnnj, < AS. gemang, ffemong, a mingled throng, 
crowd, assembly, esp. in thie phrase on gemang, 
OH gemong, or simply gemang, gemong (= OS. 
on gemange), among: see among and H/IH</I, 
Cf. mong 2 .] If. Mixture ; association. 
Ich nabbo no iiwng . . . with the world. 
Old Eny. Horn. (ed. Morris), L 186. 
2. A mixture of grain; a mixture of barley 
ground up with husks for feeding swine; a 
mash of bran and malt. Also lining. [Pi-ov. 
Eug.1 
mong-t, i'. [< ME. i</<'". .<ii/<'.< AS. IIKIH- 
gian, ycmtiityian (= leel. manga), trade, traffic 
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(cf. Icel. main/, tra'le, hiisinens); appar. < L. 
iiKinfin, ;\ tnnliT, slave-dealer, but in form at 
least associated with genniin/, iji lining, a min- 
g|t-d throng, crowd: see wionj/ 1 .] I. iiilriinn. To 
tniilt> ; trullic. .!//<,./; Uncle. 
II. triinn. To trade in ; traffic in ; deal in. 
Repent you, marchantei, your ttraunge marchlndUei 
< if personages, prebends, avowsons, of benefices, 
Of landet, of lemscs, of office, of fees, 
Your monging of vitaylii. corne. butter, and cheete. 
The funeralla n/ King Edward the Suet (1580). (Sara.) 
mong :1 (muug), prep. An abbreviated form of 
among : usually written 'mong. 
mongan (mong'gan), n. [A native name.] A 
phalanger, I'haldiitjixta herlttrtensis, of the Her- 
bert river country, (Queensland, 
mongcorn, . [Also mnnrnrn; < ME. mong- 
nn-ii ; < mongi + coral.] Same as mangcorn. 
monger (mung'ger), n. [< ME. monger, mon- 
grre, manaere, < AS. mangere (= MD. mangher, 
nii'in/ln-i: 1). w(/ij/r/<mr = MLGr. menyer, manger, 
LG. monger, menger, manger = OHG. mangari, 
mengari, MHO. mangare, mengaere = Icel. man- 
gari), a trader, dealer, merchant, < mangian, 
gemangian, trade : see mongV.] 1. A trader; a 
dealer: now used only or chiefly in composi- 
tion: as, fishmonger, ironmonger. It !> often ased 
allusively, implying a petty or discreditable traffic or activ- 
ity, as In scandal-monper, mutton-monger, whoremonger. 
Godefray the garlek-tnonoere. 
Piers Plumnan (C), vil. 378. 
This chanon has a brave pate of his owne I . 
A shaven pate ! A right monijer, y'valth ! 
This was his plot B. Jaruon, Tale of a Tub, IL 3. 
2f. A small kind of trading-vessel. Blount. 
monger (mung'ger), t.t. [< monger, n.] To traf- 
fic in ; deal in ; make merchandise of: chiefly 
used in composition with its object, and often 
implying a petty and discreditable traffic. 
The folly of all motlve-mangering. Coleridge. 
Monge's equation. See equation. 
Mongol (mong'gol), H. and a. [= F. Mongol 
= AT. Pers. Hind. Mughal (> E. Mogul), < Mon- 
golian Mongol. Said to be ult. < mong, brave.] 
I. H. One of an Asiatic race now chiefly resi- 
dent in Mongolia, a vast region north of China 
proper and south of Siberia, forming a posses- 
sion of China. Mongols are also found elsewhere In 
the Chinese empire and in Siberia, etc. The Mongols in 
the thirteenth century conquered a large part of Asia and 
overran eastern Europe. See Mogul. 
n. a. Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the 
Mongols. 
Mongolian (mong-go'li-an), a. and H. [< >/- 
qol T -Jan.] I. a. Same as Mongol. Mongo- 
lian race, the second in Blumenbach's classification of 
the races of mankind. The chief characteristics are an 
oblong skull flattened at the sides, broad cheek-bones, low 
retreating forehead, short and broad nose, and yellowish 
complexion. It Included the Chinese, Turks, Tatars, Indo- 
Chinese, Lapps, Eskimos, etc . Mongolian subregion, 
In zoogeog., a subdivision of the great Palearrtic region, 
stretching eastward from the Caspian Sea to include most 
if not all of Japan, and lying south of the Siberian sub- 
region ; but its boundaries are not well defined. In orni- 
thology this subregion has more peculiar genera than any 
other one of the Palearctic subdivisions. 
II. n. 1. Same as Mongol. 2. By extension, 
a Chinese, or member of the Mongolian race 
(according to Blumenbach's classification). 
3. The language of the Mongols, a branch of 
the Ural-Altaic family. It has three principal 
dialects Kalmuck, East Mongolian, and Bu- 
riatic. 
Mongolic (moug-gol'ik), a. [= It. Mongolieo; 
as Mongol + -ic.] Of or pertaining to the Mon- 
gols; Mongolian. 
MongolidaB(mong-gori-de),w.p/. [NL., < Mun- 
f/ol + -idtc.] The Mongols and races regarded 
as akin to them, according to the classification 
of certain authorities. 
Mongolioid (mong-go'li-oid), a. and M. [< Moa- 
gol(Mongolian) + -aid.] I. a. Resembling the 
Mongols; having Mongolian characteristics. 
II. . One having physical characters like 
those of the typical Mongols (including Chinese, 
Japanese, etc.). Huxley. 
Mongoloid (mong'go-loid), a. and n. [< Mongol 
+ -ui<l.] Same as Mongolioid. 
mongoos, mungoos (mong'-, nmug'gOs). M. [Al- 
so written mongoose, mongoo*, inongou:, mongoz, 
minnjii;, moongux, mungoose, etc.; F. mongou:, 
NL. specific name mongoz; < Telugu mangixn. 
Marathi mangits, a mongoos.] 1. A common 
ichneumon of India, Herpestrs grineus. Being 
easily domesticated, it Is kept in many houses in Hin- 
dustan to rid them of reptiles and other vermin, as rats, 
mice, etc. It has been said that It neutralizes the poison of 
snakes, which it fearlessly attacks, by eating, during Its 
i "iitrsts ith them, the Ophiorhiia Mungot, but Its Immu- 
nity is really due to the extreme celerity of IU movements. 
It Is of a gray color, flecked with black, and about the 
monilicorn 
size of a cat. The name IN i'<iii.ni<>nlv rxtt'inlcd to all the 
related Ichneumons of the subfamily //rr/x<fi'<r, of which 
there are several genera and many species ; and also to 
some of the Viverrina. All these belong to one family, 
Victrrida. See llrneitet, and cut at iehiirtmion. 
2. A species of lemur or maki, Lfmur nm 
having a white color and the tail not ringed: 
also called ni/.;/""* li-mm: 
mongrel (muug'grel), n. and . [Early mod. 
E. also IIIHIIIII'I I, iii'iiii/ril, miinijrill, mounijnl; < 
late ME. mengrcll for "mengerel, 'mongerel, < 
main/, mong, a mixture (see moRH 1 ), + -erel, a 
double dim. (-er*, -eft), us in cockerel, pickerel, 
etc.] I. . 1. An individual or a breed of 
animals resulting from repeated crossing or 
mixture of several different varieties; the pro- 
geny of varieties, and especially of artificial 
varieties, as distinguished from the hybrid, or 
cross between two different species (but the 
distinction is not always observed). 
This greater variability in mongrtU than in hybrids doe* 
not seem at all surprising. For the parent* of moiiyrelt 
are varieties, and mostly domestic varieties, . . . and this 
Implies that there ha* been recent variability, which would 
often continue and be added to that arising from the act 
of crossing. Darwin, Origin of Specie*, p. 881. 
2. Specifically, a dog of mixed breed. 
Hounds and greyhounds, motigrelt, spaniels, curs, 
Shoughs, water-ruga, and dcml-wolves are clept 
All by the name of dog*. Skat., Macbeth, tit 1. 8. 
The Ounce or wild Cat I* a* big a* a iltinyrel. 
S. Clarke, Four Plantation* In America (1670), p. 33. 
3. Anything of mixed breed; anything that is 
a mixture of incongruous elements. 
They *ay they are gentlemen, 
But they shew munyreli. 
Fletcher (and another), Sea Voyage, Iv. 1. 
Dfocleslan the Emporour bestowed Elephantlna and the 
parties adloynlng on the Blemi and NobaUc. whose Reli- 
gion was a mungrett of the Oreeklsh, Egyptian, and their 
own. Purchtu, Pilgrimage, p. 686. 
HI* two faculties of serving man and solicitor should 
compound into one mongrel. Miltvn, C'oluteriou. 
II. . Of a mixed or impure breed ; begotten 
or made up of different kinds: usually in a dis- 
reputable sense. 
There i* a mongrel dialect, composed of Italian and 
French, and some Spanish words are also In It ; which they 
call Franco. llnuell, Fun-cine Travell, p. 63. 
It was hard to Imagine Richard Jekyll . . . partaking 
of amorous dalliance from the same dUh with a mongrel 
gipsy. J. W. Palmer, After his Kind, p. 224. 
mongrelt, >' t. [Formerly also mungrel, moun- 
grrl ; < mongrel, .] To make mongrel; mon- 
grelize. 
Shal our blood be moangreld with the corruption of a 
(tragliug French? Marttun, What you Will, L 1. 
mongrelism (muug'grel-izm), . [< mongrel + 
-ism.] Mixture of different breeds; the being 
of mixed breeds. 
He [F. Gallon] continued his experiment* [of transfu- 
sion of blood in rabbits) on a still larger scale for two more 
generations, without any sign of momrnlitm showing It- 
self in the very numerous offspring. 
Danrin, Var. of Animals and Plant*, p. 360. 
mongrelize (mung'grel-iz), r. t. ; pret. and pp. 
mongreli:ed, ppr. mongrelizing. [< mongrel + 
-ice.] To make mongrel ; give a mongrel na- 
ture or character to. 
How . . . comes It that such a vast number of the seed- 
lings are mongreliied ! I suspect that it must arise from 
the pollen of a distinct variety having a prepotent effect 
over a flower's own pollen, ancf that this is part of the gen- 
eral law of good being derived from the intercrossing of 
distinct Individuals of the same species. 
Darwin, Origin of Specie*, p. 101. 
mongrel-skate (mung'grel-skat), . The an- 
gel-fish, Squatina angelus. [Local, Eng.] 
monial 1 1, n. [ME., < OF. mutilate, a nun, fern, 
of monitii, monastic, < moine, a monk: see monk.] 
A nun. 
Monkes and manialei, that mendlnauns sholden fynde, 
Han mad here kyn knyghte*. I'iert Plouman (C), rl. 76. 
monial j t, " Same as mullion. 
monicont, " Same as damonico. 
monied, . See moneyed. 
moniert, An obsolete form of moneyer. 
monies, " An erroneous plural of money, some- 
times used. 
monilated (mon'i-la-ted), . [< L. monile, a 
necklace, + -otel -f -/-.] Having alternate 
swellings and contractions, like a string of 
beads; moniliform. 
There Is an accessory gland composed of dichotomous 
inonOated tube*. Utadey, Anat. Invert., p. 350. 
monilicorn (mo-nil'i-kdrn), . and M. [< L. nni- 
nile, necklace. + cornn = E. horn.] I. a. Hav- 
ing monilated or mouiliform unit-unit-, as an 
insect; specifically, of or pertaining to the Mo- 
tiiln;ii-nes. See cut under moniliform. 
II. n. A monilicorn beetle. 
