mountain eyrie

A nest on the top of a moun "The bird of Jove IMG:content-1444.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia mountain-goat, s. [MAZAMA.] mountain-green, s. 1. Min.: [MALACHITE.] 2. Bot.: [MOUNTAIN-PRIDE.] mountain-hare, s. Zool.: Lepus variabilis , an inhabitant of the northern parts of both hemispheres. Ears and tail short, the summer-coat fulvous-gray, becoming white in cold climates and in winter. Absent from Central Europe, reappearing on the Alps. Called also the Northern Hare. mountain-head, subst. The top of a mountain. (Words worth: Thorn.) mountain-high, adv. [MOUNTAINS-HIGH.] mountain-holly, s. [HOLLY, 8..] mountain-howitzer, s. Ordn .: A short, light piece of ordnance of large calibre, to fire shells and case-shot, but not solid shot, with small charges of powder. Once constructed of cast-iron, bronze, or wrought iron, but now superseded by small steel or "screw" guns, which are in two parts, and screw together. "The mountain - howitzer , the broken road Portend the deeds to come." mountain-laurel, s. Byron: Childe Harold , i. 51. Bot.: Kalmia latifolia, one of the Rhododendreæ. mountain-laver, 8. Bot.: A gelatinous Alga of the genus Palmella. mountain-leather, s. [MOUNTAIN-CORK.] mountain-limestone, s. Geol.: A term to designate a series of calcareous rocks called carboniferous limestone. Typically it is ma ive, well-bedded, light bluish gray, reddish, or black in color, in some parts homogeneous, in others crystalline. In some places the mountain limestone is composed mainly of broken encrinites, in others of foraminifera, corals, bryozoa, . Of mollusca: 334 lamellibranchs, 206 gasteropods, with various pteropod a and cephalopod a, have been found in it; and more than seventy species of fo il fish. In addition to the value of mountain limestone for turning into lime, it contains valuable ores of lead, zinc, . It also receives a good polish, and makes a fine marble. [CARBONIFEROUS-SYSTEM.] mountain-linnet, s. Ornith.: Linota montium , distinguished from the Common Linnet and the Redpoles by the greater length of its tail, and by its reddish tawny throat. mountain-liquorice, s. 2776