montero2 (montaro)

[Also monteiro; prop. * montera, His hat was like a helmet or Spanish montero . Bacon. montero-cap (mon-tā'rō-kap), n . Same as mon tero2 . The Montero cap was scarlet, of a superfine Spanish cloth, dyed in grain, and mounted all round with fur, except 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. Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 437. IMG:content-0916.jpg:[graphic] Plural of mons . movable rim, and decorated with flutings and montes, n. a scalloped edge. It was also used for cooling montetht, n. Same as monteith. and carrying wine-gla es. New things produce new words, and thus Monteith Has by one Ve el sav'd his name from Death. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 183. IMG:content-0917.png:[blocks in formation] ifiers. The steam then condenses, and leaves a vacuum, and the operation of alternately filling and ejecting continues. E. H. Knight. California monte more generally has the signification of 'forest.' Le than a league above there is [in 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 be but a few miles through, and montaña if more. I. 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 layout, 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 of the gold - Three-card monte, 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.