Montanistical 
Montanistical (mon-ta-nis'ti-kal), a. [< Mon- 
tanitstif + -al.] Same as Montana/tic. 
montanite (mon-tii'nlt), n. [< Montana (see 
def.) + -ite 2 .] A rare tellnrate of bismuth oc- 
curring as a yellow earthy incrustation on te- 
tradymite at Highland in the State of Montana. 
Montanize (mon'ta-niz), v. i.; pret. and pp. 
Montanizcd, ppr. Mentcmtefag- [< Montanus 
(see Mon tanism) + -ize] To follow the opin- 
ions of Montanus. 
montant (mon'tant), a. and n. [< F. montinit, 
an upright beam or post, also an upward blow 
or thrust (= Sp. montante, an upright post of a 
machine, a sword, = Pg. montante, a two-handed 
sword), < montant (= Sp. Pg. montante = It. mon- 
tnnte), < ML. montan(t-)s, rising, ppr. otmontare, 
mount: see mount 2 . Cf. mountaut] I. a. Rising; 
specifically, in her., (a) increasing, or in her 
increment (applied to the moon), or (6) placed 
in pale and with the head or point uppermost 
(same as luturient in the case of a fish). 
II. . If. In fencing, apparently a blow from 
below upward, but the sense is uncertain. 
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o see thee pass thy punto, thy stock, thy reverse, thy 
tance, thy montant. Shot., Al. W. of W., ii. 3. 26. 
2. In. joinery, the intermediate vertical part of 
a piece of framing which is tenoned with the 
rails. See cut under door. 
montantot (mon-tan'to), n. [Irreg. < Sp. mon- 
tante, rising, a sword, etc.: see montant.] 1. A 
straight broadsword for two hands. 2. Same 
as montant, 1. 
'Slid ! an these be your tricks, your passados. and your 
montantos, I'll none of them. 
B. Jomon, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 6. 
mont-de-pi6t6 (mon'de-pe-a-ta'), . [F., = Sp. 
monte de piedad, < It. monte di pieta, lit. 'fund 
of pity' (cf. equiv. Sp. monte pio, 'pious fund'), 
< L. mon(t-)s, hill, heap, ML. also pile of money, 
fund, bank; lie, of ; pieta(t-)s, piety, ML. com- 
passion, pity: see mount 1 , de 2 , piety, pity.] An 
institution established by public authority for 
lending money on the pledge of goods, at a 
reasonable rate of interest. These establishments 
originated in Italy in the fifteenth century, the object in 
founding them being to countervail the exorbitantly usu- 
rious practices of the Jews. The funds, together with suit- 
able warehouses and other accommodations, are managed 
by directors, and the goods pledged are sold if the money 
lent on them is not returned by the proper time. 
monte (mon'te), n. [< Sp. monte, a hill, moun- 
tain, wood, heap, a gambling-game, < L. mons 
(mont-), a hill, mountain: see M0WI&1 1. A 
tract more or less thickly covered with shrubby 
vegetation or scanty forests ; a forest, in South 
America, and especially in the northern part, the word 
monte is used to designate more or less scantily forested 
regions or narrow belts of forest vegetation, while montaKa 
is applied to broad, densely forested areas. In Mexico and 
California monte more generally has the signification of 
'forest. 1 
Less than a league above there is fin New Granada] a 
spot destitute of trees. All such are called llano plain 
whether they be flat or hilly ; and all land covered with 
thicket is called monte if it he but a few miles through, 
and montana if more. /. F. Holton, New Granada, p. 436. 
The montes of South and Central Uruguay form narrow 
fringes to the larger streams, and rarely exceed a few 
hundred yards in width. Seen from distant higher ground, 
they resemble rivers of verdure meandering through the 
bare campos, from which they are sharply defined the 
reason being that the wood only grows where it is liable 
to inundation. Encyc. Brit., IX. 406. 
2. A favorite Spanish and Spanish-American 
gambling-game, played with the Spanish pack 
of forty cards. The players bet on certain cards of a lay- 
out, and win or lose according as others drawn from the 
pack do or do not match with these. Monte was the most 
popular of the gambling-games of California in the early 
times of the gold discoveries. Three-card monte, a 
gambling-game, of Mexican origin, played with three 
cards, of which one is usually a court-card. By skilful 
manipulation, the cards are so thrown on the table, face 
down, as to deceive the eye of the manipulator's opponent, 
who bets on the position of one of the cards, usually the 
court-card. 
monte-bank (mon'te-bangk), n. A gaming- 
table or an establishment where monte is play- 
ed; also, the bank or pile of money usually 
placed in front of the dealer, and used in pay- 
ing the stakes. 
montebrasite (mon-te-bra'zit), n. [< Monte- 
bras (see def.) + -ite 2 .] A variety of am- 
blygonite from Montebras in France. 
Montefiasco (mon-te-fias'ko), n. Same as 
Montefiascone : an erroneous abbreviation. 
Montefiascone (mon*te-fias-kd'ne),fl. [It.: see 
def. ] A fine wine produced near Montefiascone, 
in central Italy. 
monteiro, . Same as montero 2 . 
monteith (mon-teth'), n. [So called after the 
inventor.] 1. A large punch-bowl of the 
eighteenth century, usually of silver and with a 
movable rim, and decorated with flutings and 
a scalloped edge. It was also used for cooling 
and carrying wine-glasses. 
New things produce new words, and thus Manteith 
Has by one Vessel sav'd his name from Death. 
Quoted in Ashtnn's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, 
[I. 188. 
Silver cisterns could not have been common or often 
put to the baser use [rinsing forks and spoons during din- 
ner] ; but when they were discarded from the table, the 
more interesting montetth, with its movable rim, tall 
punch-glasses, lemon-strainer, and ladle, took their place. 
Jf. and Q., 7th ser., VII. 250. 
2. [Appar. of different origin from the above, 
but from the same surname.] A kind of cotton 
handkerchief having white spots on a colored 
ground, the spots being produced by a chemical 
which discharges the color. Diet. Needlework. 
monte-jus (F. pron. mdnt'zhu), n. [F., < mon- 
ter, raise, +jus, juice : see mount 2 , v., and juice.] 
In sugar-manuf., a 
force-pump by 
which the juice 
from the cane-mill 
is raised to the clar- 
ifiers on a story 
above. It consists of 
a vessel with a well sunk 
in the bottom and hav- 
ing three yalved pipes, 
one by which the juice 
is received, another by 
which it is discharged, 
and a third by which 
steam is admitted. The 
steam, entering above 
the surface of the juice, 
forces it up through the 
delivery-pipe to the clar- 
iflers. The steam then Monte-Jus, 
condenses, and leaves a 
vacuum, and the operation of alternately filling and eject- 
ing continues. E. H. Knigtit. 
montem (mon'tem), . [Short for L. proces- 
sus ad montem, going to the hill: processus, a 
going forward, orig. pp. of procedere, go for- 
ward (see proceed); ad, to, toward; montem, 
ace. of mons, a hill, mount: see mount 1 .] The 
name given to an ancient English custom, 
prevalent among the scholars of Eton till 1847, 
which consisted in their proceeding every third 
year on Whit-Tuesday to a tumulus or mound 
near the Bath road, and exacting "money for 
salt," as it was called, from all persons present, 
or passers-by. The sum so collected was given to the 
captain, or senior scholar, and was intended to assist in 
defraying the expenses of his residence at the university. 
The "salt-money " has been known to reach nearly l,OtK). 
Montenegrin, Montenegrine (mon-te-neg'- 
rin), a. and n. [< Montenegro (see def.), an It. 
translation of Serv. Crna Gora, Black Moun- 
tain ( Serv. crn, black, gora, mountain) ; < mon te, 
< L. mons (mont-), mountain, + negro, nero, < 
L. niger, black: see mount 1 and negro.] I. a. 
Relating to Montenegro, a small country of 
Europe, east of the Adriatic, nearly surrounded 
by Austrian and Turkish territory, or to its in- 
habitants. 
II. n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of Mon- 
tenegro. The Montenegrins are of Servian 
race, and speak a dialect of that language. 2. 
[1. c.] An outer garment 'for women, the form 
of which was taken from some Eastern mili- 
tary costumes, close-fitting, and ornamented 
with braid-work and embroidery. 
Montepnlciano (m6n"te-pul-cha'n6), . [It.: 
see def.] A rich wine produced at or near Mon- 
tepulciano, in central Italy. 
Monterey cypress. See cypress, 1 (a). 
Monterey pine. See pine. 
monterol (mon-ta'ro), n. [< Sp. montero, a 
huntsman, < monte, a mountain, wood, < L. 
nnni(t-)s: see mount 1 .] A huntsman. 
As Don Lorenzo approached the camp he saw a montero 
who stood sentinel. Irring, Moorish Chronicles, vii. 77. 
monthly 
montero 2 (mon-ta'ro), H. [Alsomontetroj prop. 
"montera, < Sp. montera (= Pg. montrira = It. 
monHera), a hunting-cap, < montero, a hunter.] 
A horseman's or huntsman's cap, having around 
crown with flaps which could be drawn down 
over the sides of the face. 
His hat was like a helmet or Spanish montero. Bacon. 
montero-cap (mon-ta'ro-kap), n. Same as ninti- 
tero't. 
The Montero cap was scarlet, of a superfine Spanish 
cloth, dyed in grain, and mounted all round with fur, ex- 
cept about four inches in the front, which was faced with 
a light blue, slightly embroidered. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, vi. 24. 
The cedar bird, with its red-tipt wings and yellow-tipt 
tail, and its little monteiro cap of feathers. 
Irting, Sketch-Book, p. 437. 
montes, . Plural of moim. 
montetht, n. Same as monte.ith. 
montgolfier (mont-gol'fi-er; F. pron. m6n-gol- 
fya'), n. [< F. montynlfiere, a balloon, so called 
from the brothers Hontyolfter, who in 1783 sent 
up the first balloon at Annonay, France.] A 
balloon filled with air expanded by heat. 
Montgomery Charter. See charter. 
month (month), . [Early mod. E. moneth; < 
ME. month, moneth, < AS. monath, monotli (in in- 
flection syncopated month-) = OFries. monath, 
monad, mond = D. maand = MLG. manet, LG. 
maand = OHG. manod, MHG. mdnot, manet, G. 
monat = Icel. mdnudhr = Sw. manad = Dan. 
moaned Goth, menoths, a mouth; cf. Gael. 
mios, Ir. mios, Olr. mi (gen. mix) = W. mis = 
OBulg. miesetsi = Serv. mjesee = Bohem. mesie 
= Pol. miesiac Russ. miesyatsu = Lith. mene- 
sis = Lett, menes = L. mensis = Gr. jrffv (for 
*fafvf), month, = Skt. mas (for *mdns, "niens), 
month: names derived from or connected with 
the name for 'moon,' AS. mono, = Goth, mena 
= Gr. fiifvn, etc.; but the phonetic relations 
are not entirely clear: see moon 1 .] 1. Origi- 
nally, the interval from one new moon to the 
next, called specifically a lunar, synodical, or 
illuminative month. This seldom varies more than a 
3uarter of a day from its mean value, which is 29.530589 
ays, or 29 days, 12 hours, 44 minutes, and 2.7 seconds. 
There are, besides, other periods of the moon which 
are termed months by astronomers. These are (a) The 
anomalistic month, or mean period of the revolution of 
the moon from one perigee to the next: it is 27 days, 13 
hours, 18 minutes, 37.4 seconds. (6) The sidereal month, 
or mean period required by the moon to make a circuit 
among the stars: it is 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes, 11.5 
seconds, (c) The tropical month, or the mean period of 
the moon's passing through 360 degrees of longitude, as 
from one vernal equinox to the next : it differs from 
the sidereal month only by an amount corresponding to 
the monthly precession of the equinoxes, and is 27 days, 
7 hours, 43 minutes, 4.7 seconds, (d) The nodical or dra- 
contic month, which is the mean time between two suc- 
cessive passages by the moon through its rising node : it is 
27 days, 5 hours, 5 minutes, and 36 seconds. 
2. One twelfth part of a tropical year, or 30 
days, 10 hours, 29 minutes, 3.8 seconds: called 
specifically a solar month. 3. One of the twelve 
parts into which the calendar year is arbitrarily 
divided : called specifically a calendar month. 
The calendar months are'January, 31 days; February, 28 
(except in leap-year, when it has 29); March, 31; April, 30; 
May, 31 ; June, 30 ; July, 31 ; August, 'Jl ; September, 30 ; 
October, 31 ; November, 30 ; December, 31. 
4. At common law and in equity, month has 
been understood to mean 'a lunar month,' which 
is assumed to be 28 days, except when the con- 
trary appears, and except when used of mercan- 
tile transactions, such as negotiable paper, etc. 
In ecclesiastical law, and now in all cases throughout the 
United States generally, its legal meaning is ' a calendar 
month,' except when the contrary appeal's. For the pur- 
pose of calculating interest, a month is generally consid- 
ered the twelfth part of a year, and as equivalent to SO days. 
5f. pi. Same as menses. Minshen; Cotgrave. 
Abbreviated mo. 
A month's mind. See mmdi. Consecution month. 
See consecution. Fence month. See/enee-7twmA. 
Monthier's blue. See blue. 
monthling (munth'ling), n. [< month + -ttngli] 
That which has lasted for a month, or is a 
month old. 
Yet hall to thee, 
Frail, feeble Munthlimj! 
WorcUneorth, Address to my Infant Daughter, Dora. 
monthly (munth'li), a. and n. [Early mod. E. 
inonctlily ; < ME. monethly, < AS. monathKc (= 
OHG. mdnotlich, G. iinnidtlicl/ = MD. maanilc- 
lijk. D. niaaiKlelijksch = Sw. manatlir/ = Dan. 
maancdlig), monthly, < iiioiiath, month : see 
month.'] I. a. 1. Continued for a month, or 
performed in a month: as, the moiillili/ revolu- 
tion of the moon. 2. Done or happening once 
a month or every month: as, a monthly meet- 
ing; a monthly visit. 3. Lasting a month. 
Minutes' joys are inontlth'r woes. 
i* 1 , Monaphon. 
