a series of mountains closely related in position and direction. — Mountain rice. (Bot.) (a) An upland
variety of rice, grown without irrigation, in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States. (b) An
American genus of grasses — Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary flowers, growing
in the mountains of Europe — Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish color, used
in crayon painting; saxonite. — Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant (Oxyria digyna with rounded
kidney-form leaves, and small greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and in
high northern latitudes. Gray. — Mountain sparrow (Zoöl.), the European tree sparrow. — Mountain
spinach. (Bot.) See Orach. — Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant (Arnica montana) of
Europe; called also leopard's bane. — Mountain witch (Zoöl.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
genus Geotrygon.
Mountaineer
(Moun`tain*eer") n. [OF. montanier, LL. montanarius. See Mountain.]
1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.
2. A rude, fierce person. [Obs.]
No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer.
Milton. Mountaineer
(Moun`tain*eer"), v. i. To live or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.
You can't go mountaineering in a flat country.
H. James. Mountainer
(Moun"tain*er) n. A mountaineer. [Obs.]
Mountainet
(Moun"tain*et) n. A small mountain. [R.]
Mountainous
(Moun"tain*ous) a. [F. montagneux, L. montaniosus.]
1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.
2. Inhabiting mountains. [Obs.] Bacon.
3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
Mountainousness
(Moun"tain*ous*ness), n. The state or quality of being mountainous.
Mountance
(Mount"ance) n. [OF. montance.] Amount; sum; quantity; extent. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Mountant
(Mount"ant) a. [F. montant, p. pr. of monter. See Mount, and cf. Montant.] Raised; high.
[Obs.]
Mountebank
(Mount"e*bank) n. [It. montimbanco, montambanco; montare to mount + in in, upon +
banco bench. See Mount, and 4th Bank.]
1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing
diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies; a quack doctor.
Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able
physician.
Whitlock. 2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.
Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.
Arbuthnot. Mountebank
(Mount"e*bank), v. t. To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull. [R.] Shak.
