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2. The oldest brother of the king of
France.

3. A Frenchman. [Contemptuous]
Shak.

||Mon`si*gno"re (?), n.; pl.
Monsignors (#). [It., my lord. Cf.
Monseigneur.] My lord; -- an ecclesiastical dignity
bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic
rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.)

Mon*soon" (?), n. [Malay
mūsim, fr. Ar. mausim a time, season: cf. F.
monson, mousson, Sr. monzon, Pg.
monção, It. monsone.] A wind blowing
part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the
opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical
winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the
latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast
from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

Mon"ster (?), n. [OE. monstre,
F. monstre, fr. L. monstrum, orig., a divine omen,
indicating misfortune; akin of monstrare to show, point out,
indicate, and monere to warn.


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