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Monochrome

a painting executed in a single color, but relieved by light and shade. A drawing in chiaro-oscuro is a monochrome, whether in black and white, or in any color and white. The silhouette is not a monochrome, though executed in a single color.

Monoclinic System

in mineralogy and crystallography, having two of the axial intersections rectangular and one oblique; having the lateral axes at right angles to one another, one of them, MONOGRAM moreover, being oblique to the vertical axis and the other at right angles to it.

Monogram

a character or cipher composed of one, two, or more letters interwoven, and used as a sign or abbreviation of a name or word. The term is now applied to conjoined initials of a personal name on seals, trinkets, letter paper, etc., or employed by printers, painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their work.

Monometallism

the fact or principle of having only one_metal as a standard for coinage. See BIMETALLISM.

MONONGAHELA (-hē'lä), a river which rises in West Virginia and flows N. to Pittsburgh, where it unites with the Allegheny to form the Ohio.

Monroe

a city of Louisiana, the parish-seat of Ouachita on the Ouachita portant artillery school has been located there.

Monroe

HARRIET, an American poet; born in Chicago, Ill., Dec. 23, 1860.

She wrote "Columbian Ode" (1892), composed for the opening of the World's Columbian Exposition; "Valeria," etc. (1892); "John Wellborn Root" (1896); "Passing Show" (1903); "Dance of the Seasons" (1911); "You and I" (1914) Editor "Poetry" magazine since 1912.

Montagu

an illustrious English family which sprang from DROGO DE

Montacute

who came from Normandy with the conqueror. SIR EDWARD MON- TAGU, Speaker of the House of Commons and afterward Lord Chief-Justice, died in 1557. The third son of Baron Edward

Montagu

the famous lawyer and orator, Montagu of Boughton was SIR HENRY MONTALEMBERI Montagu of Boughton

Montgomery

the name of a noble

Montrose

JAMES GRAHAM,

Moon

MOUNTAINS OF THE, a high chain of mountains supposed to cross the continent of Africa from E. to W.

On the earlier charts they were placed behind the fertile regions which line the S. side of the Mediterranean, separating them from the Great Desert; but the location of the mountains has been gradually changed by geographers southward.

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