monkey 
is raised by pulleys, and let fall oil the spot 
required. 5. A small crucible used in glass- 
making. 6. A certain sum of money: in the 
United States, $500; in Great Britain, 500: 
used especially in betting. [Slang.] 
A monkey at least to the credit side of your own book 
landed in about a minute and a half. 
Whyte Melville, Good for Nothing. 
The Grand Hurdle Handicap, the added money to which 
is a monkey. Daily Chronicle, Feb. X, 1885. (Encyc. Diet.) 
7f. A kind of bustle formerly worn by women. 
See the quotation. 
The monkey was a small "bustle," which in the days of 
very short waists was worn just below the shoulder blades. 
N. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 498. 
8. Same as loater-monkey. 
In the front room a monkey and two tumblers stood on 
the center table. 
Olive Schreiner, Story of an African Farm, ii. 8. 
9. A fluid composed of two parts of chlor- 
hydric acid (generally called spirits of salt by 
workmen) and one part of zinc, used in solder- 
ing. It is applied to the joints to be soldered, and acts 
both to prevent oxidation when heat is applied and to dis- 
solve any oxid which may have already formed, and which 
would otherwise prevent the adherence of the solder. 
Gibraltar monkey. Same as Barbary ape (which see, 
under ape). Leonine monkey, masked monkey, etc. 
See the adjectives. Monkey 8 allowance. See the 
quotation. [Humorous.] 
You fellows worked like bricks, spent money, and got 
midshipman's half-pay (nothing a day, and find yourself) 
and monkey's allowance (more kicks than half -pence). 
Kingsley, Letter, May, 1866. (Dames.) 
Monkey's dinner-bell. See Hum. Mustache mon- 
key, negro monkey, etc. See the qualifying words. 
Slfky monkey. Same as mankind. To have or get 
One's monkey up, to have one's temper roused ; get 
angry. [Slang.] To suck the monkey, (a) To suck 
wine or spirits from a cask through an inserted tube or 
straw. (6) To drink rum or other liquor. .[Nautical slang.] 
Jack will suck the monkey, in whatever form or wherever 
he presents himself. Macy. 
3836 
a, Monkey-gaff. 
sir 
"Do you know what sucking the monkey means?" " No, 
r." "Well then, I'll tell you; it is a term used among 
seam en for drinking rum out of cocoanuts, the milk having 
been poured out and the liquor substituted." 
Marryat, Peter Simple, xxx. 
monkey (mung'ki), a. [(monkey, n.~\ I. intrans. 
To act in an idle or meddlesome manner ; trifle ; 
fool : as, don't monkey with that gun. [Colloq.] 
I hope he'll fetch money, 
'long o' checks. 
I've had enough o' monkeying 
Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 465. 
II. trans. To imitate as a monkey does; ape. 
[Bare.] 
All cursed the doer for an evil 
Called here enlarging on the Devil, 
There monkeying the Lord. 
Mrs. Browning, Tale of Villafranca, st. 8. 
monkey-apple (mung'ki-ap"l), . The West 
Indian tree Clusiaflava. 
monkey-bag (mung'ki-bag), . A small bag 
used by sailors for holding money, hung round 
the neck by a string. 
monkey-block (mung'ki-blok), . Naut., a 
small swivel-block used as a leader for running 
rigging. 
monkey-board (mung'ki-bord), . The con- 
ductor's footboard 
on an omnibus. 
Soppe. [Slang, 
Eng.] 
monkey-boat 
(mung'ki-bot), n. 
A half-decked nar- 
row boat used in 
docks and on riv- 
ers. [Eng.] 
monkey-bread 
(mung'ki-bred), n. 
The fruit of the 
baobab-tree; also, 
the tree itself. The 
fruit is an oblong inde- 
hiscent capsule, 8 to 12 
inches long, contain- 
ing numerous seeds embedded in a pulp, which is slightly 
acid, and edible by man as well as by tile monkey. See 
baobab and Adansonia. 
monkey-cup (mung'ki-kup), >. A plant of the 
genus Nepenthes. 
monkey-engine (mung'ki-en"jin), n. A form 
of pile-driver having a ram or monkey working 
in a wooden frame. The monkey is held by a staple 
in a pair of tongs which seize it automatically, and is 
raised by means of a winch. The tongs open and drop 
the monkey when their handles come in contact with a 
couple of inclined planes at the top of the lift. 
monkey-flower (mung'ki-flou"er), n. A plant 
of the genus Mimulus. 
monkey-gaff (mung'ki-gaf), n. A small gaff 
placed on some large merchant ships above the 
spanker-gaff , for displaying the flag. 
Foliage, Fruit and Flower of Monkey- 
bread Tree (Adansonia digitata). 
monkey-grass (mung'ki-gras), n. A coarse 
stiff fiber afforded by the leaf -stalks of Attalea 
funifera : used largely on the Amazon for cord- 
age and brooms, and in London and Paris for 
the brushes of street-sweeping machines. 
monkey-hammer (mung'ki-ham"er), n. Adrop- 
press in which the weight, sliding in guides, is 
suspended from a cord by which it is raised 
and let fall. Also called monkey-press. 
monkeyism (mung'ki-izm), n. [< monkey + 
-ism.] An action or behavior like that of a mon- 
key. [Bare.] 
Numerous passages . . . might be quoted (from come- 
dies and satirical journals), attacking the monkeyiim, and 
parrotism of those who indiscriminately adopted foreign 
manners and customs. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 413. 
monkey-jacket (mung'ki-jak"et), n. A short 
close-fitting coat or jacket, generally made of 
stout material, as pilot-cloth, much worn by sail- 
ors in cold weather; a Guernsey frock. 
monkey-pot (mung'ki-pot), . See LecytMs. 
MonKey-pot tree, the tree bearing the monkey-pot 
fruit 
monkey-press (mung'ki-pres), n. Same as mon- 
key-hammer. 
monkey-pump (mung'ki-pump), n. Naut., a 
straw or quill introduced through a gimlet-hole 
into a wine- or spirit-cask, for the purpose of 
sucking the liquor. 
monkey-puzzle (mung'ki-puz"l), . The Chili 
pine, Arawcaria imbricata. 
monkey-rail (mung'ki-ral), n. Naut., a light 
rail raised about half a foot above the quarter- 
rail of a ship. 
monkey's-face (mung'kiz-fas), n. A plant of 
the genus Mimusops. 
monkey-shine (mung'ki-shin), n. A trick or 
prank like a monkey's; buffoonery ; tomfoolery ; 
monkeyism. [Slang, U. S.] 
You may have noticed barefooted boys cutting up mon- 
key-shines on trees with entire safety to themselves. 
A. R. Orote, Pop. Sci. Mo., XIII. 435. 
monkey-Spar (mung'ki-spar), n. Naut., a re- 
duced mast or yard for a vessel used for the 
training and exercise of boys. 
monkey-tail (mung'ki-tal), n. Naut.: (a) A 
short round lever formerly used fortraining car- 
ronades and for like purposes. (6) A piece of 
rope with a knot at the end, seized to the back of 
a hook, used as a handle in attaching the hook, 
to prevent the hand from being jammed. 
monkey-wheel (mung'ki-hwel), n. A tackle- 
block over which runs a hoisting-rope ; a whip- 
gin, gin-block, or rubbish-pulley. 
monkey-wrench (mung'ki-rench), n. In meek., 
a screw-key with a movable jaw, which can be 
adjusted, by a screw or wedge, to the size of 
the nut which it is required to turn. Weale. 
monk-fish (mungk'fish), .. 1. The angel-fish, 
Squatina angelus. 2. The angler, Lophiuspis- 
catorius. [Maine.] 
monkhood (mungk'hud), n. [< monk + -hood.] 
1. The character or condition of a monk. 
He had left off his monkhood too, and was no longer 
obliged to them. Bp. Atterbury. 
2. Monks collectively. 
I think the name of Martin Luther alone sufficient to 
relieve all mmikhood from the reproach of laziness. 
Longfellow. 
monkingt (mung'king), a. [< monk + -ing 2 .] 
Monkish: a term of contempt. 
Monasteries and other monking receptacles. Coleridge. 
monkish (mung'kish), . [< mo>jk + -is/i 1 .] 
Like a monk; pertaining to monks or to the 
monastic system; monastic: often a term of 
contempt: as, monkish manners; monkish soli- 
tude. 
monoblepsis 
monkishneSS (mung'kish-nes), n. The quality 
of being monkish: a term of contempt. 
monkly (mungk'li), .. [< monk + -/y 1 .] Re- 
lating to a monk; monkish. [Bare.] 
monk-mongert (mungk'mung"ger), n. A fos- 
terer of mouasticism. 
Never age afforded more pluralist bishops. . . . Oswald 
(a great -monk-monger, of whom hereafter) held York and 
Worcester. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. v. 24. 
monk-seal (mungk'sel), n. A seal of the genus 
Monacltus. 
monk-seam (mungk'sem), . Same as monk's- 
seam. 
monk's-gun (mungks'gun), n. The wheel-lock 
gun of the beginning of the sixteenth century : 
so called from the legend that it had been in- 
vented by the monk Schwarz, the supposed 
discoverer of gunpowder. 
monk's-harquebus (mungks'har // kwe-bus), n. 
Same as monk's-gun. 
monk's-hood (mungks'hud), n. A plant of the 
genus Aconitum, especially A. Napellus. Also 
called friar's-cap, foxbane, helmet-flower, Ja- 
cob' s-chariot, and wolf's-bane. See Aconitum 
and aconite. 
monk's-rhubarb (mungksWbarb), . A Eu- 
ropean species of dock, Sumex Patientia. See 
dock*. 
monk's-seam (mungks ' semj, . 1. Naut., a 
seam formed by stitching through the center of 
a joining made by laying the selvages of two 
cloths of canvas one over the other and stitch- 
ing them on both sides. Also called middle 
stitching. 2. The mark left on a bullet by the 
mold at the junction of its two halves. [Eng.] 
Also monk-seam. 
monmouth (mon'muth), n. A flat cap origi- 
nally made at Monmouth, England, formerly 
much worn by seamen. 
Caps which the Dutch seamen buy, called monmouth 
caps. Defoe, Tour through Great Britain, II. S39. (Dames.) 
Monmouth COCk. A fashion of wearing the 
flap-hat imitated from the Duke of Monmouth, 
son of Charles II., and still prevailing in the 
early part of the eighteenth century. 
The smartest of the country Squires appear still in the 
Monmouth Cock, and when they go a wooing, whether 
they have any post in the militia or not, they generally 
put on a red coat. Spectator, No. 129. 
Monmouth hat. A hat worn with a Monmouth 
cock. 
monnett (mon'et), . See the quotation. 
Little ears denote a good understanding, but they must 
not be of those ears which, being little, are withall de- 
formed, which happens to men as well as cattel, which for 
this reason they call monnets; for such ears signine noth- 
ing but mischief and malice. 
Sounders, Physiognomic (1653). (Nares.) 
mono (mo'no), n. [Sp. mono, m., a monkey; cf. 
mona.] The black howler or howling monkey, 
Mycetes villosus. 
mono-. [L., etc., mono-,< Gr. fiovo-, stem of /tivos, 
single, only: see monad.'] A prefix in many 
words of Greek origin or formation, meaning 
'single,' 'one.' 
monoaxal (mon-o-ak'sal), a. [< Gr. fiovof, sin- 
gle, + L. axis, axis: see axal.~\ Pertaining to 
a single axis Monoaxal Isotropy, the case in which 
the homotatic coefficients are completely isotropic round 
one axis only. 
monobasic(mon-o-ba'sik),a. [<Gr./advof, single, 
+ fidaif, base.] Having one base: applied in 
chemistry to an acid which enters into combi- 
nation with a univalent basic radical to form a 
neutral salt, or a salt containing one equiva- 
lent of a base. 
monoblastic (mon-o-blas'tik), a. [< Gr. /i&vof, 
single, + /ftaar6f, germ.] Belating to that con- 
dition of the metazoic ovum or embryo which 
immediately succeeds segmentation, in which 
a single germinal layer is alone represented: 
correlated with diploblastic and triploblantic. 
Monoblepharideas (mon-o-blef-a-rid'e-e), -n.pl. 
[NL., < Monobleplidiis (-id-) + -B.] A mono- 
typic order of oomycetous fungi, closely related 
to the Peronnsporea. The thallna-hyphee bear both 
terminal and interstitial oogones, in which the whole pro- 
toplasm contracts and forms the oosphere. Propagation 
takes place by the formation of uniciliated zobspores in 
zoosporangia, as in the well-known genus Phytophthora. 
Monoblepharis (moii-o-blef'a-ris), n. [NL. 
(Cornu), < Gr. fiovo(, single, + /J'/'.t^apov, eyelid.] 
A genus of fungi, typical of the order Mono- 
Nepharicteoe. 
monoblepsis (mon-o-blep'sis), . [NL., < Gr. 
/uoVof, single, + {Steytf, sight, < 37.tmiv, see, look 
on.] In patltol., a condition of vision in which 
it is more distinct when one eve only is used. 
