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Monitor
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) A monitor nozzle.
(4):
(n.) 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.
(5):
(n.) 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.
(6):
(n.) An ironclad war vessel, very low in the water, and having one or more heavily-armored revolving turrets, carrying heavy guns.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Monitor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/monitor.html. 1828.
