Montoir
(||Mon`toir") n. [F., fr. monter to mount. See Montant.] A stone used in mounting a horse; a
horse block.
Monton
(Mon"ton) n. [Sp.] (Mining) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
Montross
(Mon*tross") n. See Matross. [Obs.]
Montrue
(Mon"true) n. [F., fr. monter to mount. See Montoir.] That on which anything is mounted; a
setting; hence, a saddle horse. [Obs.] Spenser.
Monument
(Mon"u*ment) n. [F., fr. L. monumentum, fr. monere to remind, admonish. See Monition,
and cf. Moniment.]
1. Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
Of ancient British art
A pleasing monument.
Philips.
Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.
Shak. 2. A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action,
etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
On your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.
Shak. 3. A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
4. A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days.
Foxe. Syn. — Memorial; remembrance; tomb; cenotaph.
Monumental
(Mon`u*men"tal) a. [L. monumentalis: cf. F. monumental.]
1. Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
2. Serving as a monument; memorial; preserving memory. "Of pine, or monumental oak." Milton.
A work outlasting monumental brass.
Pope. Monumentally
(Mon`u*men"tal*ly), adv.
1. By way of memorial.
2. By means of monuments.
Monureid
(Mon*u"re*id) n. [Mon- + ureid.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances
regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also monureide.]
Moo
(Moo) a., adv., & n. See Mo. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Moo
(Moo) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mooed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Mooing.] [Of imitative origin.] To make the
noise of a cow; to low; — a child's word.
Moo
(Moo), n. The lowing of a cow.
