mountain mountain flax (mount an flaks)

1. A plant, Linum cat hart i cum or Polygala Senega. See flax, 1 ( a ) and ( b ), and Linum. -2. A fibrous asbes nanthemum. mountainous (mountān-us), a. [Formerly also mount a no us; The Country is not mount a no us , nor yet low, but such Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, I. 115. 2. Large as a mountain; huge; towering. What custom wills, in all things should we do 't, The dust on antique time would lie unswept, And mountainous error be too highly heapt For truth to o'er-peer. Shak., Cor., ii. 3, 127. 3t. Inhabiting mountains; barbarous. In... destructions by deluge and earthquake,... the remnant of people which hap to be reserved are commonly ignorant and mountainous people, that can give no account of the time past. Bacon, Vici itude of Things. mountainousne (moun tān-us-nes), n. Mountainous character or condition. Brere wood. mountain-parsley (moun'tān-pärs"li), n. 1. The plant Peucedanum Oreoselinum.-2. The parsley-fern of Europe, Cryptogram me ( Alloso rus ) crisp a.