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et, and an extreme breadth of 62 1/2 feet; and, large as these proportions are, one of the few defects the British Committee of Ships' Designs find in her is that she is not large enough, and that in future such vessels should be built upon a larger scale than either the Thunderer or the Devastation. See iron-Clad. Mon′i-tor-car. （Railway.) One having a central longitudinal raised portion in the roof, on the sides of which portion are openings for ventilation and panes for light. Monk. （Printing.) A blacker portion in a printed sheet; a dark patch. A blackened, wasted impression. Mon′key. 1. The weight (a, Fig. 3212) of a pile or post driver, which is raised by a grapple and chain, and, being detached, is allowed to fall in its guides on to the head of the pile. The weight is attached to the chain by a dog c, which is caused to relax its grip by a trigger, or by coming in contact with a stop placed at the required hight. At the back of the monkey, or ram,