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  • English Word Monte-acid Definition An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
  • English Word Monteith Definition See Monteth.
  • English Word Monteith Definition A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
  • English Word Montem Definition 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.
  • English Word Montero Definition An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.
  • English Word Monteth Definition Alt. of Monteith
  • English Word Montgolfier Definition 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.
  • English Word Month Definition 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.
  • English Word Monthlies Definition of Monthly
  • English Word Monthling Definition That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
  • English Word Monthly Definition Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
  • English Word Monthly Definition Done, happening, payable, published, etc., once a month, or every month; as, a monthly visit; monthly charges; a monthly installment; a monthly magazine.
  • English Word Monthly Definition A publication which appears regularly once a month.
  • English Word Monthly Definition Once a month; in every month; as, the moon changes monthly.
  • English Word Monthly Definition As if under the influence of the moon; in the manner of a lunatic.
  • English Word Monticle Definition A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence.
  • English Word Monticulate Definition Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
  • English Word Monticule Definition See Monticle.
  • English Word Monticulous Definition Monticulate.
  • English Word Montiform Definition Resembling a mountain in form.
  • English Word Montigenous Definition Produced on a mountain.
  • English Word Montoir Definition A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
  • English Word Monton Definition A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
  • English Word Montross Definition See Matross.
  • English Word Montrue Definition That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse.
  • English Word Monument Definition Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
  • English Word Monument Definition A building, pillar, stone, or the like, erected to preserve the remembrance of a person, event, action, etc.; as, the Washington monument; the Bunker Hill monument. Also, a tomb, with memorial inscriptions.
  • English Word Monument Definition A stone or other permanent object, serving to indicate a limit or to mark a boundary.
  • English Word Monument Definition A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record.
  • English Word Monumental Definition Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.