mountainous, mount a no us

[O. Fr. montaigneux, from montaigne =a mountain (q. v.).] 1. Full of mountains; hilly. "And now the ve el skirts the strand Of mountainous North umber land." *2. Inhabiting mountains. "The remnant IMG:content-1446.png:[blocks in formation] Bot.: Trifolium alpinum , the roots of which have -ne .] The quality or state of being mountainous. the sugary flavor of liquorice. mountain-mahogany, 8. IMG:content-1447.png:[blocks in formation] 1. A quack doctor; one who mounted on a bank or bench at a fair, or on some other occasion of public concourse, to proclaim the virtues of the drugs which he had for sale. "To hear mountebanks harangue, to see bears dance, and to set dogs at oxen." -Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. iii. 2. A boastful and false pretender; a quack, a charlatan. "Ours parcell'd out, as thine have ever been, God's worship and the mountebank between." Cowper: Progre of Error , 156. *B. As adj .: Quack, false, sham. "Much like to these mountebank chirurgians." -P. Holland: Plutarch's Morals , p. 139. mount'-ě-băńk, v . t . & i. [MOUNTEBANK, 8.] A. Trans.: To cheat by false boasts or pretences. "I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them." Shakesp.: Coriolanus, iii. 2. B. In trans.: To play the fool. "This paltry mountebanking quack." Cotton: Burlesque upon Burlesque , p. 221. mount-ě-băńk-er-ỹ, s . [English mountebank ; -ery. The principles, practices, or habits of mountebanks; charlatanry, quackery. "The only true expedient [is] yet untried (while all others are experimented to be but mere empirical state mountebankery)." - Hammond : Works, iv. 509.