n. [ L. ad montem to the hillock. See Mount, n. ] A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. ] A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards. [ 1913 Webster ]

three-card monte a gambling game using playing cards, in which a dealer shows a bettor three cards face up and specifies one to be identified, and after the cards are turned face down and moved around quickly, the bettor must identify which of the three cards is the specified card. It is sometimes engaged in by dealers on the streets of a city, with bets made by passers-by. [ PJC ]

‖n. In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. monter to raise + acide acid. ] (Chem.) An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Monteth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of cotton handkerchief having a uniform colored ground with a regular pattern of white spots produced by discharging the color; -- so called from the Glasgow manufactures. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ , n. A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor. [ 1913 Webster ]

New things produce new words, and thus Monteth
Has by one vessel saved his name from death. King. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. monter to bring up + jus juice. ] An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Sp. montera a hunting cap, fr. montero a huntsman, monte a mountain, forest, L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. ] An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Pedagogy) A system of training and instruction, primarily for use with normal children aged from three to six years, devised by Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the “Houses of Childhood” (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. The fundamental aim is to create self-motivation for education, and the leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of reading and writing skills, and an extended sensory and motor training (with special emphasis on vision, touch, perception of movement, and their interconnections), mediated by a patented, standardized system of “didactic apparatus, ” which is declared to be “auto-regulative.” Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812-80). [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]