Bible Dictionaries
Monitor

Webster's Dictionary

(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.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Monitor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/monitor.html. 1828.