a man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.-a blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. it is distinguished from a 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 (pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as cebus xanthocephalus.-the european bullfinch.