monk

Definitions

• A male member of a monastic order who has devoted his life for religious service.
• in earlier usage, an eremite or hermit devoted to solitude, as opposed to a cenobite, who lived communally.
• (slang) A male who leads an isolated life; a loner, a hermit.
• (slang) An unmarried man who does not have sexual relationships.
• (slang) A judge.
• (printing) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed; distinguished from a friar (friar), or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink.
• A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine.
• A South American monkey (); also applied to other species, as .
• The bullfinch, common bullfinch, , or Eurasian bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
• The monkfish.
• (historical) A fuse for firing mines.