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Caloyer :: Caloyer (n.) A monk of the Greek Church; a cenobite, anchoret, or recluse of the rule of St. Basil, especially, one on or near Mt. Athos..

Monkeytail :: Monkeytail (n.) A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery..

Munga :: Munga (n.) See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet..

Redemptionist :: Redemptionist (n.) A monk of an order founded in 1197; -- so called because the order was especially devoted to the redemption of Christians held in captivity by the Mohammedans. Called also Trinitarian.

Hoonoomaun :: Hoonoomaun (n.) An Indian monkey. See Entellus.

Community :: Community (n.) A body of people having common rights, privileges, or interests, or living in the same place under the same laws and regulations; as, a community of monks. Hence a number of animals living in a common home or with some apparent association of interests..

Aconite :: Aconite (n.) The herb wolfsbane, or monkshood; -- applied to any plant of the genus Aconitum (tribe Hellebore), all the species of which are poisonous..

Monkey :: Monkey (n.) A term of disapproval, ridicule, or contempt, as for a mischievous child..

Monastery :: Monastery (n.) A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; -- more rarely applied to such a house for females..

Recluse :: Recluse (a.) A person who lives in seclusion from intercourse with the world, as a hermit or monk; specifically, one of a class of secluded devotees who live in single cells, usually attached to monasteries..

Midas :: Midas (n.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset..

Anthropoidea :: Anthropoidea (n. pl.) The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man..

Monkey-bread :: Monkey-bread (n.) The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia..

Chameck :: Chameck (n.) A kind of spider monkey (Ateles chameck), having the thumbs rudimentary and without a nail..

Frock :: Frock (v. t.) To make a monk of. Cf. Unfrock.

Monkey :: Monkey (n.) The weight or hammer of a pile driver, that is, a very heavy mass of iron, which, being raised on high, falls on the head of the pile, and drives it into the earth; the falling weight of a drop hammer used in forging..

Pithecoid :: Pithecoid (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Pithecia, or subfamily Pithecinae, which includes the saki, ouakari, and other allied South American monkeys..

Wanderoo :: Wanderoo (n.) A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo..

Monkish :: Monkish (a.) Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude..

Lecythis :: Lecythis (n.) A genus of gigantic trees, chiefly Brazilian, of the order Myrtaceae, having woody capsules opening by an apical lid. Lecythis Zabucajo yields the delicious sapucaia nuts. L. Ollaria produces the monkey-pots, its capsules. Its bark separates into thin sheets, like paper, used by the natives for cigarette wrappers..

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