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11 words match “MONTE”

MONTE n.
A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
MONTE-ACID n.
An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
MONTE-JUS n.
An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.
MONTEITH n.
See Monteth.
MONTEM n.
A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing 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.
MONTERO n.
An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen. Bacon.
MONTESSORI METHOD n.
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. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks a…
MONTETH; MONTEITH n.
ashed; -- so called from the name of the inventor. New things produce new words, and thus Monteth Has by one vessel saved his name from death. King.
FLUSH v.
rarily red or rosy, as if suffused with blood. How faintly flushed. how phantom fair, Was Monte Rosa, hanging there! Tennyson.
MEIONITE n.
A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.
QUIRINAL a.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, the hill Collis Quirinalis, now Monte Quirinale (one of the seven hills of Rome), or a modern royal place situated upon it. Also used substantively.