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Monbuttu

or MANGBATTU, a country in central Africa. Its area is about 4,000 square miles. Pop. about 1,500,000. The soil is fertile and produces tobacco and sugar cane. The inhabitants were formerly cannibals, but 16,000.

Monel Metal

an alloy made from the nickel-copper ores of Ontario, and containing 67 per cent. nickel, 28 per cent. copper, 5 per cent. iron and manganese. It is strong, tough, and ductile, will not rust, and is resistant to the action of acids and alkalies. These properties render it valuable in marine engineering and the construction of chemical equipment. MONESSEN

Monessen

a borough of Pennsylvania in Westmoreland county about 40 miles S. of Pittsburgh. It is on the Monongahela river and on the Pennsylvania and the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie railroads. It is an important industrial city and contains large steel and tinplate works. Its other industries include wire-fence factories, lumber yards and brick works. Pop. (1910) 11,775; (1920) 18,179.

Mong Pai

a state of British Burma with an area of 660 square miles. The land is for the most part hilly. Rice is produced on irrigated land, and tobacco, sugar cane, cotton, and fruit are grown.

Pop. about 21,000. The capital is the city of the same name.

Mong Pan

a state of Burma with an area of 2,299 square miles. It is for the most part undeveloped country. The northern part is covered with a dense jungle. Pop. about 19,000. a

Monism

a philosophical theory that all being may ultimately be referred to one category. Thus idealism, pantheism, materialism are monisms, as opposed to the dualism of matter and spirit. See PHILOSOPHY.

Monitor

the type of a family of lizards (Varanide). They are the largest of the lizard order, some species, such as the V. Niloticus of the Nile and Egypt, attaining a length of six feet. They generally inhabit the neighborhood of rivers and lakes, and feed upon the eggs of crocodiles, turtles, and aquatic birds.

Monitor

the popular name for a class of very shallow, heavily-armed ironclad steam vessels, invented by Ericsson, carrying on their open decks either one or two revolving turrets, each containing one or more enormous guns, and designed MONKEY

Monk

a male religious living in community (except the Chartreux and Camaldoli, who are strictly solitary), bound by rule and practicing the counsels of perfection. The name was in universal use till the rise of the friars in the 13th century.

Monmouth

a city and county-seat of Warren co., Ill.; on the Minneapolis and St. Louis, Rock Island Southern, and MONOCLINIC SYSTEM

Monmouth

BATTLE OF, an engagement between the American forces under General Washington, and the British under Sir Henry Clinton, near Freehold, Monmouth co., N. J., June 28, 1778.

Monmouthshire

county in England, formerly part of Wales, bounded on the S. by the Bristol Channel. Area, 545 square miles; mountainous, and watered by by the Usk, Wye, and Monnow.

Has large collieries, and agricultural products include wheat and barley. Welsh still largely spoken. Capital, Monmouth; chief city, Newport. Pop. about 400,000.