Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Monte \Mon"te\, n. [Sp., lit., mountain, hence, the stock of
   cards remaining after laying out a certain number, fr. L.
   mons, montis, mountain.]
   A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or
   cards.

Monte \Mon"te\, n.
   In Spanish America, a wood; forest; timber land; esp., in
   parts of South America, a comparatively wooden region.

Source : WordNet®

monte
     n : a gambling card game of Spanish origin; 3 or 4 cards are
         dealt face up and players bet that one of the will be
         matched before the others as the cards are dealt from the
         pack one at a time [syn: {four-card monte}, {three-card
         monte}]