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[L., fr.
monere. See Monition, and cf. Mentor.]
1. One who admonishes; one who warns of faults,
informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or
caution.

You need not be a monitor to the
king.

Bacon.

2. Hence, specifically, a pupil selected to
look to the school in the absence of the instructor, to notice the
absence or faults of the scholars, or to instruct a division or
class.

3. (Zoöl.) Any large Old World
lizard of the genus Varanus; esp., the Egyptian species (V.
Niloticus), which is useful because it devours the eggs and young
of the crocodile. It is sometimes five or six feet long.

4. [So called from the name given by Captain
Ericson, its designer, to the first ship of the kind.] An
ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more
heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.

5. (Mach.) A tool holder, as for a
lathe, shaped like a low turret, and capable of being revolved on a
vertical pivot so as to bring successively the several tools in holds
into proper position for cutting.

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