M O K 
From this maybe traced the old exprefTidn of a year's 
tnonumvut, a year's mind, a month's monument, a month's 
mind, Sec. Tliefe things were a fource of profit to the 
monks ; and, from a knowledge of that, our anceftors at 
the Reformation perhaps retained the plirafe, as a ludi¬ 
crous mode of exprefling any defire of gratifying their 
willies. In Ireland, where popery is ftill upheld, the 
purchased obituals remain unaltered in tendency as well 
as title. So lately as the year 1803, Richard Power, of 
Krlmailon, bequeathed 100I. part for the repairs of his 
parilh-church, and part for a month's mind; and in 1805, 
William Lonergan, the prieft of Carrickbeg, left a fijni- 
lar fum for his month's mind! Brady's Clav. Cal. —Sekynge 
to make all men’s goodes common unto them by tytle of 
tythes, otferynges, devocyons, pylgrimages, abfolucyons, 
indulgences, beqtielles, mortuaries, monthes-myndes, year- 
myndes, and the devil and all befydes. Bale's Yet a Courfe 
at the Ilomijh Foxe. 
For if a trumpet found or drum beat, 
Who has not a month's mind to combat ? Htidibras. 
MONTKERME', a town of France, in the department 
of the Ardennes : nine miles north of Charleville. 
MON'THLY, adj. Continuing a month; performed 
In a month.—I would alk concerning the monthly revolu¬ 
tions of the moon about the earth, or the diurnal ones 
of the earth upon its own axis, whether tliefe’ have been 
finite or infinite. Bentley. —Happening every month : 
The youth of heavenly birth I view’d, 
For whom our monthly vidlims are renew’d. Dryden. 
MON'THLY, adv. Once in a month.—If the one may 
very well monthly, the other may as well even daily, be 
iterated. Hooker. 
Oh! fwear not by.the moon, the inconftant moon. 
That changes monthly in her circled orb ; 
Left that thy love prove likewil’e variable. Shahefpeare. 
As if under the influence of the moon. In the manner 
of a lunatic; 
The man talks monthly. 
I fee he’ll be ftark mad at our next meeting. Middleton. 
MONTHOIRO'N, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Vienne: five miles fouth-fouth-eaft ,of Cha- 
telleraut, and thirteen north-eaft of Poitiers. 
- MONTHOI'S, a town of France, in the department of 
the Ardennes, and chief place of a canton, in the diftrift 
of Vouziers. The place contains 610, and the canton 
6606, inhabitants. 
MONTHOUME'T, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Aude, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftrift of Carcaflone. The place contains 279, and the 
canton 4-354-, inhabitants. 
MONTHS, f. pi. The monthly terms; the menfes.— 
The root of climbing birtliwort, taken inwardly, has 
fucceeded in cachexies, fuppreflion of the months, See. 
'Thornton's Herbal. 
MONTHUREU'X sup. SAO'NE, a town of France, in 
the department of the Vofges: four miles fouth-fouth- 
iveft of Darney, and feven eaft of Marche. 
MON'TI BA'Y. See Port Mulcr.ive. 
MON'TIA, f. [named by Micheli in honour of Jofeph 
Monti, profefior of botany at Bologna, who, in 1719, pub- 
liflied an account of the grafies in his neighbourhood, 
being one of the earlieft attempts to illuftrate the charac¬ 
ters of this curious but difficult tribe of plants. Scheuch- 
zer, Micheli, and Monti, devoted their ieveral labours to 
this fubjeft much about the fame period.] In botany, a 
genus of the clafs triandria, order trigynia, natural order 
of portulaceai, Jytjf. Generic characters—Calyx: perian- 
thium two-leaved ; leaflets ovate, concave, blunt, erebt, 
permanent. Corolla ; one-petalled, five-parted, three of 
the fegments alternate, fmalleiy ftaminiferous. Stamina : 
filaments three, capillary, the length of the corolla., into 
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which they arcinlerted; antherse fmall. Piftillum: germ 
turbinate ; ftyles three, villofe, fpreading ; ftigmas fimple'. 
Pericarpium: capfule turbinate, blunt, covered, one- 
celled, three-valved. Seeds: three, roundifli. The calyx 
often varies with three leaflets, and then it often produces 
five ftamens.— Effcntial Charafter. Calyx two-leaved ; co¬ 
rolla one-petalled, irregular; capfule one-celled, two- 
valved. 
Montia fontana, water chick-weed, or blinks, the only 
fpecies quoted. Root annual, fibrous. Stalks numer¬ 
ous, round, fmooth, fucculent, reddilh, fpreading on the 
ground, and fometimes ltriking root, two or three inches 
in length, branched and jointed. Leaves oppoiite, fertile, 
oblong, fomewhat pointed, narrowed near the bale, ra¬ 
ther flefliy, fmooth, and of a pale-green colour. Pedun¬ 
cles generally growing three together, each fupporting 
one flower, proceeding from a little fcale in the bofom of 
the leaves ; as foon as the flowering is over, hanging down ; 
afterwards becoming upright, and longer than the leaves ; 
corolla white ; filaments Ihorter than the corolla to which 
they are connected. Germ large at top, fmall at bottom, 
and fomewhat triangular. The permanent and increafing 
calyx, truncated at top, invert's the capfuie, which is fub- 
globular, and contains three feeds, which are turgidly len¬ 
ticular or fubglobular, beaked, rugged with very dole 
tubercles, black, fixed by a very fhort umbilical chord to 
the bottom of the capfule. The flowers ufually appear 
in a half-opened ftate, whence one of the Englif'n names, 
blinlts ; but, wdien the fun fliines on them, they expand. 
This little plant is fliown on the Plate of Monotropa, 
p. 695. at fig. 3. It is a native of many parts of Europe, 
flowering in May, and ripening its feed at the beginning 
of June. With us it is not uncommon; as on Black- 
heath, Hampftead-heath, Hanging-wood, Chariton, about 
Streatham, and Sydenham, Harefield-common ; wet 
heaths in Norfolk; Hill of Health and Gamlingay-heatli, 
Cambridgelhire; Badby in Northamptonlhire; Bridge- 
ford in Nottinghamfliire, Hockley Pool Grate near Bir¬ 
mingham ; Shotover-hill and South Leigh-heatli, in Ox- 
fordlhire ; Marazion-marfh in Cornwall. 
| 3 . M. aquatica major. Allione remarks, that the larger 
variety grows in bogs, the fmaller one where water has 
flood in winter; that at firft fight they appear to differ, 
the larger having fewer flowers and on longer peduncles 
from the axils ; in the fmaller, the flowers are rather more 
abundant on the top of the plant, befides the axillary 
ones, the leaves are alfo much fmaller. 
The whole herb is fmooth and fomewhat fucculent, 
much relembling Elatine hydropiper in its general af- 
peCl. Dr. Smith obferves, that “ Micheli’s name of 
Montia was retained by Linnaeus, in preference to Came- 
rttria previoufly given to this genus by Dillenius, becaufe 
Plunder had already given the latter name to an American 
plant, more worthy to commemorate fo great a botanift as 
Camerarius.” See alfo Heliocarpus. 
MONTICEL'LO, a town of the illand of Corfica : ten 
miles eaft-nortli-eaft of Calvi. 
MON'TICLE, f. [ynonticulus, Lat.] A little mountain, 
a mount. Bailey. 
MONTIC'ULOUS, adj. Full of little mounts. Bailey. 
MONTI'EL, a town of Spain, in New Caftile, formerly 
the lee of a biffiop. In the year 1369, Pedro the Cruel, 
king of Caftile, was killed in this town by his brother 
Henry. It is eighteen miles weft-fouth-weft of Alcaraz. 
MONTI'ER St. JEA'N, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment of the Cote d’Or : fix miles north-weft of Semur 
en Auxois, and fix fouth-fouth-weft of Montbart. 
MONTI'ER sur SAU'X, a town of France, in the de¬ 
partment oftheMeufe: nine miles weft of Gondrecourt, 
and fifteen fouth-fouth-weft of Bar le Due. 
MONTIEREN'DER, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Marne; twelve miles fouth of St. Dizier, 
and twenty-leven north-weft of Chaumont en Bartigny, 
MONTIER'RE, a town of the illand of Sardinia : nine 
miles eaft-l’outh-eaft of Bofa. 
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