mang

[Lat.] A mountain. *Mons Mænalus, s . Astron.: A northern constellation introduced by Hevelius. None of the stars are large. It is not now retained. mons veneris, s. Anat.: The integument in the fore-part of the female pubic symphysis. monseigneur (as mon-sen-yer) ( pl . me eigneurs) (mě-sen-yer), s . [Fr.=mylord: mon =my, and seigneur , lord.] A title of honor given to princes, bishops, and other high dignitaries: spec., the title of the Dauphin. Mon-sieur (as m-sieu), pl. Me ieurs (as měs sieu), s . [Fr.] *1. The title given to the eldest brother of the king of France. 2. The ordinary title of addre or courtesy in France, corresponding to the English Mr. or Sir. It is abbreviated in writing to M. or Mons., and in the plural to MM. or Me rs. 3. A term applied in contempt by English men to French men. "A French man his companion: An eminent monsieur , that, it seems, much loves A Gallian girl." Shakesp.: Cymbeline , i. 7. mon-sō-ni-a, s. [Named after Lady Ann Monson, who a isted Lee in his Introduction to Bot any.] Bot .: A genus of Cape Geraniaceæ, having five equal sepals, five equal petals, and fifteen stamens in five bundles or in a single one. The stem of Monsonia spinosa burns like a torch, and emits an agreeable odor. IMG:content-1375.png:[blocks in formation] gerator. *mon-ster-fül, *mon-stre-full, a . [Eng. monster; -full.] Wonderful, extraordinary. "These monstrefull thing is I devise to thee Because thou shuldist nat of them aba hid be." Chaucer (?): March antes Second Tale. mon-str ançe, s. [Low Lat. mons trant i a , from monstro to show; O. Fr. monstrance =demonstration; O. Sp. & Ital. monstranza .] Roman Ritual : A ve el in which the Host is exposed to the adoration of the people during the Forty Hours' Adoration, or in which it is inclosed for Benediction. Prior to the institution of the feast of Corpus Christ i (A. D. 1264), the Host was exposed for adoration in a pyx (q. v.). The chief part of the monstrance is formed by two discs of crystal, set vertically, between which the Host is placed. These discs are surrounded by rays of metal, emblematic of glory, and the whole is mounted on a stand. I. Ordinary Language : 1. The quality or state of being monstrous or out of the ordinary or common course of nature. "We desire no records of such enormities; sins should be accounted new, that so they may be esteemed monstrous. They omit of monstrosity as they fall from their rarity; for men count it venial to erre with their fore fathers, and foolishly conceive they divide a sin in its society."- Browne: Vulgar Errors, bk. vii., ch. xix. 2. That which is monstrous; a monster; a monstrous or unnatural production. "We shall tolerate flying horses, black swans, hydras, centaurs, harpies, and satyrs; for these are monstrocities , rarities, or else poetical fancies."-Browne: Vulgar Er rors , bk. v., ch. xix. II. Animal & Veget . Physiol .: A character appearing in an individual animal or plant, which is very rare in the species to which it belongs. It is abnormal in the sense of being exceptional, but not in the sense of being produced as a mere sport of nature independent of law. "By a monstrosity," says Mr. Darwin, "I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure, generally injurious or not useful to the species." (Orig. of Spec . (ed. 6th), p. 33.) They arise in man, in the inferior animals, and in plants. Idiocy, hermaphroditism, albinoism, the po e ion of an unusual number of fingers or toes, more teats than two, two heads, or no head at all, physical union by flesh, cartilage, or bone to any other individual, ., are cases of human mon strosity. Monstrosities which graduate into slight variations are so similar in man and the lower animals, that the same cla ifications and the same terms, as has been shown by Isidore Geoffroy-St. Hilaire, can be used for both. ( Darwin : Descent of Man , p. 30.) Among some of the many monstrosities of the lower animals may be mentioned that discoidal shells occasionally become spiral, and fo il periwinkles from the Norwich Crag are often distorted. ( S. P. Woodward : Mollusca (ed. 1875), p. 37.) All cases of monstrosity are to be accounted for by law. In most cases they are caused by arrest of development, in some by reversion to the character of a remote ancestor, in others by hypertrophy of a particular part. mon-strous, *mon-stru-ous, a . & adv . [Old Fr. monstrüeux , from Lat. monstruosus , monstrosus , from monstrum a monster (q. v.); Sp. & Port. monstruoso; Ital. mostroso , mostruoso .] IMG:content-1376.png:[blocks in formation] "Skill infinite or monstrous desperate." Shakesp.: All's Well that Ends Well , ii., 1. mon-stroŭs-lý, adv . [Eng. monstrous ; -ly .] 1. In a monstrous manner; against the common order of nature; unnaturally. 2. Shockingly, unreasonably, enormously, extravagantly. "The value of that grant was so monstrously exaggerated."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xxv. , pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot Syrian. æ, e = e; ey = IMG:content-1377.png:[blocks in formation] "This is the monstruosity in love, lady, that the will is infinite, and the execution conf in'd."-Shakesp.: Troilus and Cre ida , iii., 2. *mon-strû-ous, a . [MONSTROUS.] mon-strû-ous-ne , s. [MONSTROUSNESS.] mont, s. [Fr.=mountain.) (See compound.) mont-de-piété, s. Banking, .: One of the money-lending establishments founded in Italy in the fifteenth century, with the view of lending money to the poor at a smaller rate of interest than was exacted by ordinary pawnbrokers. The institution spread to France, Spain, and some other countries.