Mountain

mownt′ān, or -′in, n. a high hill: anything very large: a wine made from mountain grapes: the extreme party in the French Revolution (see Montagnard ).— adj. of or relating to a mountain: growing or dwelling on a mountain.— ns. Mount′ain-ash , the rowan-tree, with bunches of red berries, common on mountains; Mount′ain-blue , blue carbonate of copper; Mount′ain-bram′ble , the cloudberry; Mount′ain-cat , a catamount, a wild-cat; Mount′ain-chain , a number of mountains connected together in one line; Mount′ain-cork , Mount′ain-leath′er , a very light and whitish variety of asbestos; Mount′ain-deer , the chamois; Mount′ain-dew , whisky.— adj. Mount′ained .— ns. Mountaineer′ , an inhabitant of a mountain: a climber of mountains: a rustic; Mountaineer′ing , the practice of climbing mountains; Mount′ain-flax , a fibrous asbestos; Mount′ain-lime′stone ( geol. ), a series of limestone strata separating the Old Red Sandstone from the coal-measures; Mount′ain-līon , the cougar; Mount′ain-milk , a spongy carbonate of lime.— adj. Mount′ainous , full of mountains: large as a mountain: huge.— ns. Mount′ain-rice , an awnle rice grown without irrigation on the Him a lay as, .; Mount′ain-sheep , the bighorn of the Rocky Mountains; Mount′ain-soap , a greasy clay-like mineral, a kind of halloysite—also Rock-soap ; Mount′ain-tall′ow , a mineral substance, called also Hatchettite ; Mount′ain-tea , the American evergreen, Gaultheria procumbens .— Old man of the mountain , a popular name for the chief of the 11th century Hashshāshīn (see A a in ). [O. Fr. montaine —Low L. montana , a mountain—L. montan us — mons , montis .]