monarch

monarch is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.One superior to all others of the same kind; as, an oak is called the monarch of the forest.
  2. 2.A patron deity or presiding genius. Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus. Shak.
  3. 3.(Zoöl.) A very large red and black butterfly (Danais Plexippus); -- called also milkweed butterfly.
  4. 4.Superior to others; preëminent; supreme; ruling. "Monarch savage." Pope.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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