The high, the mountain majesty of worth.
Byron.
Mountain antelope (Zoöl.), the goral. -- Mountain ash (Bot.), an
ornamental tree, the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful
bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white,
growing in fragrant clusters. The European species is the P. aucuparia,
or rowan tree. -- Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for
safe transportation, used in measuring the heights of mountains. --
Mountain beaver (Zoöl.), the sewellel. -- Mountain blue (Min.), blue
carbonate of copper; azurite. -- Mountain cat (Zoöl.), the catamount.
See Catamount. -- Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain
ranges, generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves. --
Mountain cock (Zoöl.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie. -- Mountain cork
(Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling cork in its texture. --
Mountain crystal. See under Crystal. -- Mountain damson (Bot.), a large
tree of the genus Simaruba (S. amarga) growing in the West Indies,
which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes used in
medicine. -- Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often
illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] -- Mountain ebony
(Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Bauhinia variegata) of the East and
West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used
medicinally and in tanning. -- Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of
asbestus, having very fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus. --
Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under Fumitory. --
Mountain goat. (Zoöl.) See Mazama. -- Mountain green. (Min.) (a) Green
malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
-- Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub (Nemopanthes Canadensis),
having smooth oblong leaves and red berries. It is found in the
Northern United States. -- Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub
(Kalmia latifolia) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy clusters of
rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is poisonous. Called also
American laurel, ivy bush, and calico bush. See Kalmia. -- Mountain
leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling leather in its
texture. -- Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium
(T. Alpinum). - - Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine
limestone strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology. -- Mountain linnet
(Zoöl.), the twite. -- Mountain magpie. (Zoöl.) (a) The yaffle, or
green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike. -- Mountain mahogany
(Bot.) See under Mahogany. -- Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery
variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. -- Mountain milk
(Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. -- Mountain mint.
(Bot.) See Mint. -- Mountain ousel (Zoöl.), the ring ousel; -- called
also mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel. -- Mountain pride,
or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which
has an unbranched palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large,
pinnate leaves. -- Mountain quail (Zoöl.), the plumed partridge
(Oreortyx pictus) of California. It has two long, slender, plumelike
feathers on the head. The throat and sides are chestnut; the belly is
brown with transverse bars of black and white; the neck and breast are
dark gray. -- Mountain range, 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 (Oryzopsis). --
Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary flowers, growing
in the mountains of Europe (Rosa alpina). -- 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.
Moun`tain*eer" (moun`tn*r"), n. [OF. montanier, LL. montanarius. See
Mountain.] 1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among
mountains.