-1715).

=Monastery= (_The_), a novel by Sir W. Scott (1820). _The Abbot_ appeared
the same year. These two stories are tame and very defective in plot;
but the character of Mary queen of Scots, in _The Abbot_, is a correct
and beautiful historical portrait. The portrait of Queen Elizabeth is in
_Kenilworth_.

=Mon[c,]ada= (_Matthias de_), a merchant, stern and relentless. He arrests
his daughter the day after her confinement of a natural son.

_Zilia de Mon[c,]ada_, daughter of Matthias, and wife of General
Witherington.--Sir W. Scott, _The Surgeon's Daughter_, (time, George
II.).

=Monda'min=, maize or Indian corn (_mon-da-min_, "the Spirit's grain").

Sing the mysteries of mondamin,
Sing the blessing of the corn-fields.

Longfellow, _Hiawatha_, xiii. (1855).

=Mone'ses= (3 _syl._), a Greek prince, betrothed to Arpasia, whom for the
nonce he called his sister. Both were taken captive by Baj'azet. Bajazet
fell in love with Arpasia, and gave Mon[=e]s[^e]s a command in his army.
When Tamerlane overthrew Bajazet, Mon[=e]s[^e]s explained to the Tartar
king how it was that he was found in arms against him, and said his best
wish was to serve Tamerlane. Bajazet now hated the Greek, and, as
Arpasia proved obdurate, thought to frighten her into compliance by
having Mon[=e]s[^e]s bow-strung in her presence; but the sight was so
terrible that it killed her.--N. Rowe, _Tamerlane_ (1702).

=Money=, a drama by Lord E. L. B. Lytton (1840). Alfred Evelyn, a poor
scholar, was secretary and factotum of Sir John Vesey, but received no
wages. He loved Clara Douglas, a poor dependent of Lady Franklin;
proposed to her, but was not accepted, "because both were too poor to
keep house." A large fortune being left to the poor scholar, he proposed
to Georgina, the daughter of Sir John Vesey; but Georgina loved Sir
Frederick Blount, and married him. Evelyn, who loved Clara, pretended to
have lost his fortune, and, being satisfied that she really loved him,
proposed a second time, and was accepted.

=Moneytrap=, husband of Araminta, but with a _tendresse_ for Clarissa, the
wife of his friend Gripe.--Sir John Vanbrugh, _The Confederacy_ (1695).

=Monflathers= (_Miss_), mistress of a boarding and day establishment, to
whom Mrs. Jarley sent little Nell, to ask her to patronize the wax-work
collection. Miss Monflathers received the child with frigid virtue, and
said to her, "Don't you think you must be very wicked