monocle (monokl)

[= OF. monocle, oneeyed, F. monocle, a single eye-gla , Another [man], with a monocle in his eye, watched each his vacant and nece arily gla y stare expre The Century, XXXIII. 208. ing neither present pleasure nor anticipation. Monocle a (mon-ō-klēʼa), n. [NL. (W. J. Hooker, 1820), so called because the sporangia open only on one side; Monocle aceæ (mon"ō-klē-āsē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Nees von Esenbeck, 1833-8), monoclinal (mon'ō-kli-nal), a. and n. [ the same direction social remind in ure, etc. A monoclinal flexure may be regarded as a half of an anticlinal fold, which would have been completed had the flexing action not been limited to one side of the axis, the strata resuming their horizontality on the other side. The Echo-Cliff flexure, the Water-Pocket flexure, one of the grandest monoclinals of the west, and the San Rafael flexure, all monoclinal flexures of imposing dimensions and perfect form, Capt. Dutton considers go far back in Tertiary time, and po ibly are pre-Tertiary. Reade, Origin of Mountain Ranges, p. 250. II. n. A monoclinal fold or flexure. See I. monoclinate (mon'ō-kli-nāt), a. [ κλίνειν , incline, + -atel.] Same as monoclinic. monocline (mon'ō-klin), n. [ monoclinic (mon-ō-klin'ik), a. [= F. mono clinique; monoclinohedric (mon-ō-kli-nō-hed'rik), a . [ μόνος , single, + κλίνειν , incline, + ἔδρα , seat, monochrome (mon'ō-krōm), n. [= F. mono- chrome = Pg. mono chroma , monoclinic . mono clinometric mono clinometric (mon-ō-kli-nō-met'rik), a. [