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Definition of Monitor top
Monitor top Monitor Mon"i*tor, n. [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. (Zo["o]l.) 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.
Monitor top, the raised central portion, or clearstory, of
a car roof, having low windows along its sides.
