mountain licorice (moun tanlik"or is)

A European species of trefoil, Trifolium alpinum, fringilline bird of Europe, Linota montium, the IMG:content-1018.png:[blocks in formation] twite. It is a taste of doubt and fear, To aught but goat or mountain -deer. Scott, Lord of the Isles, iv. 8. The cou gar, Felis concolor. See cut under cougar. [Western U. S.] There deer, bears, mountain - lions , antelope, and turkeys are in abundance. Harper's Mag., LXXVII. 878. IMG:content-1019.png:[blocks in formation] Of al the remenant of myn other care Ne sette I nat the mount a unce of a tare. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 712. Every che of hem hath be Zere the mount ance of 6 score Floreynes. Mandeville , Travels, p. 38. mountant (mountant), a. [ monter , mount: see mount1, v. Cf. montant.] High; raised: a quasi-her- aldic epithet. Your aprons mountant ; you are not oathable - Although, I know, you'll swear. Observed ye, yon reverend lad Mak's faces to tickle the mob; He rails at our mountebank squad - It's rivalry just i' the job.