1851 A. Johnston in Indian Affairs Rep. 251 The Indians of the reservations are gradually swelling in numbers, from the ‘Monoes’, or wild Indians from the adjacent mountains.

1884 Overland Monthly Oct. 364/1 About this time of year straggling bands of Monos come over here to gather pine nuts and seeds.

1907 A. L. Kroeber Shoshonean Dial. Calif. 114 The name Mono or Monachi is that generally applied to most of the Shoshoneans of the Sierra Nevada.

1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VIII. 88/2 The Eastern Mono along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, notably in the Owens Valley, were culturally in the Great Basin, while the Western Mono or Monache..were in the California culture area.

1978 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VIII. 426/1 The Northfork Mono were..separated from the Wobonuch by the essentially unattributable terrain between the headwaters of the San Joaquin and Kings rivers.

1986 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians XI. 433/1 Kroeber..added the distinction Eastern Mono for Owens Valley versus Western Mono for the Monache.

1907 A. L. Kroeber Shoshonean Dial. Calif. 68 Two vocabularies called Mono were obtained.

1958 S. M. Lamb in Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 24 ii. 97/1 The language of Owens Valley and the Sierras can be called either Mono or Monachi.

1967 W. R. Miller Uto-Aztecan Cognate Sets 3 Southern Paiute has also medial clusters of nasal plus stop, a feature not found in either Mono or Comanche.

1996 B. F. Grimes Ethnologue (ed. 13) 144 Mono... Related to Northern Paiute. Only a few elderly speakers left. Nearly extinct.

1924 E. Hemingway In our Time xii. 22 The horse's entrails hung down in a blue bunch..the monos whacking him on the back of his legs with the rods.

1927 E. Hemingway Men without Women 38 The monos were leading a horse out by the bridle toward the bull.

1952 B. Conrad Matador x. 124 The monos switched the horse forward a step, and..the bull lunged forward and socked against the mattress shield that protected the horse.

1937 F. Borkenau Spanish Cockpit ii. 123 The streets and cafés are full of militia, all of them dressed in their monos, the new dark-blue uniforms.

1965 C. D. Eby Siege of Alcázar (1966) i. 28 Many of them wore their regular overalls—loose-fitting blue boiler-suits called monos.

1959 Manch. Guardian 4 Aug. 3/2 For the benefit of non-stereo collectors, most of these records have appeared also in mono.

1971 It 2 June 18/1 There's an inferior bootleg in mono selling at the same price.

1986 What Video Dec. 7/1 The network of landline links is mainly in single channel mono.

1994 Classic CD June 43/2 It was made in 1960, and is in mono, though you would only guess that in a few places.

1960 Pract. Wireless 36 421/1 The mono pick-up will need one length of wire.

1974 Listener 14 Feb. 219/2 A radio play with a surplus of stereo trickery is not likely to be well received by listeners on mono sets.

1988 Which? Dec. 581/1 It's useful to have a switch to select mono reception in these cases.

1999 What Hi-Fi? Awards Issue 173/3 Some stereo power amps can be converted into more powerful mono amplifiers.

1964 Amer. Speech 39 120 The general student preoccupation with internal disorders and other forms of illness, especially around examination time (cf. the frequent references among students to mono for ‘mononucleosis’).

1972 F. Knebel Dark Horse (1973) vi. 88 I had a chance to meet the Yugoslav ambassador last summer, but then I came down with mono.

1988 Toronto Sun 13 Apr. 87/2 If I was still having relapses with mono, I wouldn't be in my A No. 1 position.

1999 Student Times (Dundee Univ. Students' Assoc.) 2 Oct. 4/2 Isn't Mono the kissing disease?

1977 Mod. Boating (Austral.) Jan. 87/2 Bigger monos don't have this problem as the crew weight is less significant.

1986 Toronto Star (Nexis) 5 June d12 Gerry Moog's Dynamo was the first mono or single-hulled boat across the finish line.

1992 Yachts & Yachting 28 Aug. 65/1 Every tack is as easy and quick as on a mono.

1999 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 4 June 24 Mary Falk's outstanding water-ballasted mono QII lays claim to the outward record for that class.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 May (Weekend section) 44 Tie a dressed hook to a 12- to 24-inch piece of 12-pound mono for your leader and knot this to a three-way swivel.

1988 Salmon, Trout & Sea-trout June 18/3 Monofilament line of about 15 lb b/s is usually satisfactory, but cheap mono..often has too much stretch.

1994 Outdoor Canada May 58/2 I use a 6-½ or 7-foot medium to heavy action spinning or baitcasting outfit, loaded with 10-to-12 pound premium mono.

1970 Econ. Jrnl. 80 297 10 × 60-inch mono advertisements.

1976 Daily Record (Glasgow) 22/4 (advt.) Colour and mono TV repairs, 7 days.

1987 Pract. Photogr. Dec. 39/4 The fastest standard mono films..only have a speed of ISO 400.

1995 Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 12/6 The older models had a mono screen, and the batteries lasted for eight hours. On the new colour model, the batteries have a maximum life of four hours.

1977 J. McClure Sunday Hangman ix. 95 The monos are about fifty per cent cheaper, depending on this and that.

1983 Judge Dredd Ann. 1984 12 For mono I use a Rotring with two points, 0.75 and 0.5, and a brush No. 6 or 7 with the tip cut.

1988 Amateur Photographer 3 Sept. 73/1 A graphic image in mono conjures up the idea of stark blacks and whites.

1994 What PC? Oct. 59/1 (advt.) This compact all-purpose Presentation Printer moves smoothly from mono to colour on most sufaces: ordinary or quality paper, film, or transfers.