noun. A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order.

noun. Originally, a man who retired from the world for religious meditation and the practice of religious duties in solitude; a religious hermit; in later use, a member of a community or fraternity of men formed for the practice of religious devotions and duties, and bound by the vows of poverty, celibacy, and obedience to a superior; specifically, a regular male denizen of a monastery.

noun. A name of various animals.

noun. In printing, an over-inked spot or blotch in print, usually made by imperfect distribution of ink. Compare friar, 2.

noun. Milit., a fuse for firing mines.

noun. Synonyms Hermit, etc. See anchoret.

noun. A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.

noun. A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.

noun. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.

noun. undefined

noun. A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus.

noun. The European bullfinch.

noun. a South American and West Indian bat (Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves.

noun. the friar bird.

noun. a species of seal (Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.

noun. a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex Patientia).

noun. A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.

noun. in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.

noun. A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.

noun. An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.

noun. A judge.

noun. a male religious living in a cloister and devoting himself to contemplation and prayer and work

noun. United States jazz pianist who was one of the founders of the bebop style (1917-1982)

"Jackson - "The monk is just someone who's sort of taken up a curatorship.""

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