Vocabulary : Montant to Montgolfier

Montant : An upward thrust or blow. ;; An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile.
Monte : A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards. ;; In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
Monte-acid : An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
Monteith : See Monteth. ;; A vessel in which glasses are washed; -- so called from the name of the inventor. ;; 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.
Monte-jus : An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.

Montem : 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.
Montero : An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.
Montessori Method : 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. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of writing, 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).
Monteth : Alt. of Monteith
Montgolfier : 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.

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