<B>mountain, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a very high hill; a natural elevation of the earth's surface rising high above the surrounding level in a massive and conspicuous way. <BR> <I>Ex. The distant mountains were covered with snow and the tops hidden in the clouds.</I> (SYN) peak. <DD><B> 2. </B>a very large heap or pile of anything; something like a mountain or high hill. <BR> <I>Ex. a mountain of rubbish.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) a huge amount. <BR> <I>Ex. a mountain of money. The crippled man overcame a mountain of difficulties.</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or having something to do with mountains. <BR> <I>Ex. mountain air, mountain scenery.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>living, growing, or found on mountains. <BR> <I>Ex. mountain plants.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>resembling or suggesting a mountain. <BR><I>expr. <B>make a mountain</B> (<B>out</B>) <B>of a molehill,</B> </I>to give great importance to something which is really insignificant. <BR> <I>Ex. She was only five minutes late, but he made a mountain out of a molehill about it.</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mountains,</B> </I>a series of very high hills. <BR> <I>Ex. Mountains interposed make enemies of nations (William Cowper).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>the Mountain,</B> </I>an extreme revolutionary party, led by Danton and Robespierre, in the Legislative Assembly and the National Convention of the French Revolution. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainarnica">
<B>mountain arnica,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the common variety of arnica. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainash">
<B>mountain ash,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a genus of trees and shrubs of the rose family, having delicate pinnate leaves, white flowers, and bright-red to orange-brown berries. They grow in Europe and from Newfoundland to northern Georgia. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various Australian eucalyptus trees. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainavens">
<B>mountain avens,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a low evergreen plant of the rose family with erect yellow or white flowers, growing on mountains and in arctic regions. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainbeaver">
<B>mountain beaver,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an animal with a short, thick body, short legs, and small eyes and ears. The mountain beaver is a rodent, but not a beaver, that lives in colonies and makes its home in tunnels dug in the banks of streams along the Pacific coast and in nearby mountains. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainbike">
<B>mountain bike,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a sturdy bicycle specially designed for off-road use. </DL>
<B>mountain chain,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a connected series of mountains or mountain ranges. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=mountain system.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mountainchickadee">
<B>mountain chickadee,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of chickadee of the western United States. <BR> <I>Ex. The mountain chickadee has a black cap, but has a white line over each eye (Arthur A. Allen).</I> </DL>
<B>mountain cork,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of asbestos. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaincranberry">
<B>mountain cranberry,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an evergreen shrub of the heath family, growing in North America, with an edible, very tart, red berry; lingonberry. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaindamson">
<B>mountain damson,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a West Indian tree of the quassia family, the bark of whose root is used in medicine as a tonic and astringent. </DL>
<B>mountained, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Poetic.) <DD><B> 1. </B>set on or as if on a mountain. <BR> <I>Ex. Like old Deucalion mountain'd o'er the flood (Keats).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>covered with mountains; mountainous. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaineer">
<B>mountaineer, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person skilled in mountain climbing; alpinist. <BR> <I>Ex. Fitzpatrick was a hardy and experienced mountaineer, and knew all the passes and defiles (Washington Irving).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a person who lives in the mountains. <BR> <I>Ex. a Kentucky mountaineer.</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to climb mountains. <BR> <I>Ex. Those who mountaineer in regions where the heights are undetermined must not depend on aneroids alone (C. T. Dent).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mountaineering">
<B>mountaineering, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the art or sport of mountain climbing; alpinism. <BR> <I>Ex. Mountaineering is all ... patience, deliberate skill, ... after long endurance (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mountaingoat">
<B>mountain goat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, goat antelope of the Rocky Mountains, with slender, backward-curving black horns; Rocky Mountain goat. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaingorilla">
<B>mountain gorilla,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a gorilla of the mountain forests of the Congo and western Uganda, in central Africa. It is larger and has longer and thicker hair than other gorillas. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainhemlock">
<B>mountain hemlock,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large hemlock of the western United States that yields a hard lumber. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainlaurel">
<B>mountain laurel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an evergreen shrub with glossy leaves and pale-pink or white flowers, found in eastern North America. It belongs to the heath family. Mountain laurel is the state flower of Connecticut and Pennsylvania. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainlion">
<B>mountain lion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large North American wildcat; cougar; puma. <BR> <I>Ex. Largest and probably most widely scattered of the native cats is the mountain lion (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mountainmahogany">
<B>mountain mahogany,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shrub of the rose family found in the Rocky Mountains. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainman">
<B>mountain man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a person who lives in the mountains; mountaineer. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainmaple">
<B>mountain maple,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a shrublike maple of eastern North America, with greenish-yellow flowers growing in erect, downy spikes. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainmeal">
<B>mountainmeal, </B>noun. <B>=bergmehl.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mountainnestor">
<B>mountain nestor,</B> <B>=kea.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mountainous">
<B>mountainous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>covered with mountain ranges. <BR> <I>Ex. mountainous country.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>like a mountain; large and high; huge. <BR> <I>Ex. mountainous waves.</I> (SYN) enormous. adv. <B>mountainously.</B> noun <B>mountainousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mountainpass">
<B>mountain pass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a natural passageway over or through a mountain barrier. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainpeony">
<B>mountain peony,</B> <B>=tree peony.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mountainplover">
<B>mountain plover,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a plover of the plains of the western United States, resembling the killdeer but smaller and without the black rings across the breast. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainquail">
<B>mountain quail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a grayish-brown quail with chestnut markings and a crest formed by two black feathers, found along the Pacific coast of the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainrange">
<B>mountain range,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a row of connected mountains. <BR> <I>Ex. The Rockies is one of the great mountain ranges of the western United States.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a group of mountains. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainrosebay">
<B>mountain rose bay,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any shrub of a species of rhododendron found in Virginia and having brilliant lilac-purple flowers. </DL>
<A NAME="mountains">
<B>mountains, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> See under <B>mountain.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mountainscape">
<B>mountainscape, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a scene or view of mountains, pictured or in nature. <BR> <I>Ex. The most trivial but eye-stopping addition to the mountainscape is the seedy tangle of billboards (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mountainsheep">
<B>mountain sheep,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=bighorn.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several other wild sheep inhabiting mountains. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainsickness">
<B>mountain sickness,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> sickness caused by the rarefied air at high altitudes. The common symptoms are difficulty in breathing, headache, and nausea. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainside">
<B>mountainside, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the side or slope of a mountain below the summit. <BR> <I>Ex. snow-draped mountainsides (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mountainstandardtime">
<B>Mountain Standard Time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the standard time in the Rocky Mountain regions of the United States and Canada. It is seven hours behind Greenwich Time. Noon coincides with the apparent passage of the sun over the 105th west meridian. (Abbr:) MST </DL>
<A NAME="mountainstate">
<B>Mountain State,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a nickname for West Virginia. </DL>
<A NAME="mountainsumac">
<B>mountain sumac,</B> <B>=dwarf sumac.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mountainsystem">
<B>mountain system,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of geographically related mountain ranges. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaintime">
<B>Mountain time,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Mountain Standard Time. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaintobacco">
<B>mountain tobacco,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a perennial herb of the composite family, used as the source of the medicine arnica. </DL>
<A NAME="mountaintop">
<B>mountaintop, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the top or summit of a mountain. </DL>
