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Monitor

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So the Romans called the nursery teacher. The Military Monitor was an officer to tell young soldiers of the faults committed against the service. The House Monitor was a slave to call the family of a morning, etc.

Monitor. An ironclad with a flat deck, sharp stern, and one or more movable turrets.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Momus’s Lattice or Window
Monaciello [little monk]
Monarchians
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Monday Pops
Money
Money makes the Mare to go
Monimia
Monism
Monitor
Monk
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