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Definition of Monteith
1. n. See Monteth.
2. n. 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.
Definition of Monteith
1. Noun. a bowl used for the cooling of wine glasses ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) a cotton handkerchief with white spots on a coloured background ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Monteith
1. a large punch bowl [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Monteith
Literary usage of Monteith
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1894)
"monteith. ROBERT (./?. monteith. ... diplomats and historian, son of William
monteith i» hi. ... monteith."
2. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"At dusk, my command was encamped on pood dry ground, between the two portions of
monteith Swamp. Weather, to-day, was fine, roads were excellent. ..."
3. Scotish Elegiac Verses, MDC.XXIX.-M.DCC.XXIX: With Notes and an Appendix of by James Maidment (1842)
"monteith of Kerse," observes Nisbet (413), " carried quarterly first and fourth
Or, a Bend Checque, sable and argent; second and third Azure, three buckles ..."
4. Cases Decided in the Court of Session by Scotland Court of Session, Patrick Shaw, Scotland, Court of Session (1835)
"]yjr Thomson's estate, at the price of £5300 Sterling, the price to be monteith'a .
r . "' r _,. Trustee. payable at Whitsunday next, when our entry is to ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1842)
"History of the Earldoms of Strathern, monteith, and Airth. By SIR HARRIS NICOLAS.
Pickering. WITH this History we have a " Report of the Proceedings before ..."
6. Notes on dignities in the peerage of Scotland which are dormant or which by William Oxenham Hewlett (1882)
"constitute William Earl of monteith and his heirs, Earls of Airth, and to the
said Earldom united and annexed the Earldom of monteith, with place, ..."
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