3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a
mountainous heap. Prior.
Moun"tain*ous*ness, n. The state or quality of being mountainous.
Mount"ance (?), n. [OF. montance.] Amount; sum; quantity; extent.
[Obs.] Chaucer.
Mount"ant (?), a. [F. montant, p. pr. of monter. See Mount, and cf.
Montant.] Raised; high. [Obs.]
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.