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sea monk(medicine)
monk(dictionary)
monk(1)(dictionary)
monk(2)(dictionary)
Monk's Pub(tourism)
Monk(medicine)
Monk (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Monk' s beard(recipes)
Monk, Meredith (Jane)(encyclopedia)

velonoskiascopy (medicine) and monk(1) (iou)


velonoskiascopy (medicine)


velonoskiascopy


An obsolete subjective test for ametropia in which a thin rod is moved across the pupil while a distant light source is fixed; the shadow of the rod moves with the rod in myopia, and in the opposite direction in hyperopia.

Origin: G. Velone (belone), needle, + skiascopy


monk(1) (iou)



monk noun1.

A member of a Christian community of men living apart from the world under vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, according to the rule of a particular order, and devoted chiefly to religious duties and contemplation. Also, a member of a similar community of adherents of any Other Religion. OE.
black monk: see BLACK adjective. Pied Monk: see PIED adjective. white monk: see WHITE adjective.
Any of various animals or things whose form suggests the cowled figure of a monk; spec. (a) (also sea-monk) = monkfish below; (b) Printing a blotch or area of excessive inking (cf. FRIAR 4). E17.
Comb.: monk bond: see BOND noun2 9; monk-craft derog. = MONKERY; monkfish (a) a bottom-dwelling shark of the genus Squatina, with a somewhat flattened body and broad winglike pectoral fins; esp. S. squatina of eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean waters; (b) an angler-fish; monk-house a monastery; Monk-Latin a corrupt form of Latin used by monks; monk-monger derog. a favourer of monks or monasticism; monk's bench = monk's table below; monk seal any of various light-bellied seals of the genus Monachus, esp. M. monachus of the Mediterranean and adjacent seas; monk-seam, monk's-seam Nautical a seam in which the selvages of sails are sewn flat one over the Other; monk's gun a 16th-cent. wheel-lock gun, supposedly invented by the monk Schwarz, the alleged inventor of gunpowder; monk shoe, monk's shoe a low shoe with a strap passing over the instep, buckled at the side; monk's rhubarb a kind of dock, Rumex pseudoalpinus, formerly grown as a pot-herb; monk's-seam: see monk-seam above; monk's shoe: see monk shoe above; monk's table a convertible wooden seat, the back of which is hinged to swing over and rest horizontally on the arms, thus forming a table.
monkdom noun the condition of a monk; monks collectively; the domain of monks: M19.
monkhood noun the state or profession of a monk; the monastic life, monasticism; monks collectively: OE.
monkism noun monasticism E18.
monkship noun the monastic system; monks collectively: E17.