‖n. [ Sp. ] A dry kind of cherry, of a light color. Simmonds. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A cement used in making joints, filling cracks, etc. For iron, the principal constituents are iron borings and sal ammoniac; for wood, white lead or litharge, whiting, and linseed oil. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. Once in two months. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. bi- + monthly. ] Occurring, done, or coming, once in two months; as, bimonthly visits; bimonthly publications. -- n. A bimonthly publication. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. cis- + L. mons mountain. ] On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane. [ 1913 Webster ]

See Common sense, under Sense.

n. (Scots Law) A common; a piece of land in which two or more persons have a common right. Bell. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or }, n. 1. In Scott's “Guy Mannering”, a Border farmer of eccentric but fine character, who owns two terriers claimed to be the progenitors of the Dandie Dinmont terriers. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. One of a breed of terriers with short legs, long body, and rough coat, originating in the country about the English and Scotch border. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A wether sheep between one and two years old. [ Scot. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Same as Frumenty. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. inter- + L. montanus belonging to a mountain, fr. mons, montis, mountain. ] Between mountains; as, intermontane soil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Dr. Laumont, the discoverer. ] (Min.) A mineral, of a white color and vitreous luster. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina and lime. Exposed to the air, it loses water, becomes opaque, and crumbles. [ Written also laumonite. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. See Mount, n. ] Mountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mountain. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. montanus, fr. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. ] Of or pertaining to mountains; consisting of mountains. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life. -- Mon`ta*nis"tic Mon`ta*nis"tic*al a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., prop., mounting, fr. monter to mount, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount. ] 1. (Fencing) An upward thrust or blow. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile. [ R. ] See Stile. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ F., fr. It. monte di pietà mount of piety. ] One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; -- called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house. [ 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. [ 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. 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. ]

‖n. A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. month, moneth, AS. mōnð, mōnað; akin to mōna moon, and to D. maand month, G. monat, OHG. mānōd, Icel. mānuðr, mānaðr, Goth. mēnōþs. √272. See Moon. ] One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the common law, a month is a lunar month, or twenty-eight days, unless otherwise expressed. Blackstone. In the United States the rule of the common law is generally changed, and a month is declared to mean a calendar month. Cooley's Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

A month mind. (a) A strong or abnormal desire. [ Obs. ] Shak. (b) A celebration made in remembrance of a deceased person a month after death. Strype. --
Calendar months, the months as adjusted in the common or Gregorian calendar; April, June, September, and November, containing 30 days, and the rest 31, except February, which, in common years, has 28, and in leap years 29. --
Lunar month, the period of one revolution of the moon, particularly a synodical revolution; but several kinds are distinguished, as the synodical month, or period from one new moon to the next, in mean length 29 d. 12 h. 44 m. 2.87 s.; the nodical month, or time of revolution from one node to the same again, in length 27 d. 5 h. 5 m. 36 s.; the sidereal, or time of revolution from a star to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 11.5 s.; the anomalistic, or time of revolution from perigee to perigee again, in length 27 d. 13 h. 18 m. 37.4 s.; and the tropical, or time of passing from any point of the ecliptic to the same again, equal to 27 d. 7 h. 43 m. 4.7 s. --
Solar month, the time in which the sun passes through one sign of the zodiac, in mean length 30 d. 10 h. 29 m. 4.1 s. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [ R. ] Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine. [ 1913 Webster ]

Monthly nurse, a nurse who serves for a month or some short time, esp. one which attends women after childbirth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Monthlies A publication which appears regularly once a month. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic. [ Obs. ] Middleton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. monticulus, dim. of mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. monticule. See Mount, n. ] A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence. [ Written also monticule. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Furnished with monticles or little elevations. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Monticle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Monticulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mons, montis, mountain + -form. ] Resembling a mountain in form. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. montigena; mons, montis, mountain + the root of gignere to beget. ] Produced on a mountain. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. monter to mount. See Montant. ] A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. ] (Mining) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., show, show case, organ case. ] 1. (Organ Building) A stop, usually the open diapason, having its pipes “shown” as part of the organ case, or otherwise specially mounted. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A hole in the wall of a pottery kiln, by which the state of the pieces within can be judged. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. See Matross. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., fr. monter to mount. See Montoir. ] That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. pied foot + mont mountain. ] (Geol.) Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Min.) A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Promontory. [ R. ] Drayton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Promontories [ L. promonturium, promunturium; pro before + mons, montis, mountain: cf. F. promontoire. See Mount, n. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Phys. Geog.) A high point of land or rock projecting into the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. [ 1913 Webster ]

Like one that stands upon a promontory. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Anat.) A projecting part. Especially: (a) The projecting angle of the ventral side of the sacrum where it joins the last lumbar vertebra. (b) A prominence on the inner wall of the tympanum of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

a.[ F. ] (Hort.) Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] (Horology) See under Escapement. [ 1913 Webster ]