·noun A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
II. Monte ·add. ·noun In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; ·esp., in parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.
·noun An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid ma...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·add. ·noun An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing ...
In former days an eminence out of cannon shot of operations, where spectators were not exposed to da...
The Sailor's Word-Book
On the south side of Fenchurch Street, opposite the Pump and next to Northumberland Alley west (S. 1...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.