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the Devonian age in America. The rocks of this period are well developed in the Catskill mountains, and extend south and west under the Carboniferous formation. See the Diagram under Geology.

Of or pertaining to the Caucasus, a mountainous region between the Black and Caspian seas.

r; or a series of things connected and following each other in succession; as, a chain of mountains; a chain of events or ideas.

A herdsman's hut in the mountains of Switzerland. Chalets are summer huts for the Swiss herdsmen. Wordsworth.

A small species of antelope (Rupicapra tragus), living on the loftiest mountain ridges of Europe, as the Alps, Pyrenees, etc. It possesses remarkable agility, and is a favorite object of chase.

of the genus Salvelinus, allied to the spotted trout and salmon, inhabiting deep lakes in mountainous regions in Europe. In the United States, the brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) is sometimes called a char.

n his own favor, and makes unwarrantable pretensions; a quack; an impostor; an empiric; a mountebank.

A Carthusian monastery; esp. La Grande Chartreuse, mother house of the order, in the mountains near Grenoble, France.

The items, or the amount, to which attention is called by a check or checks.

A horseman; a knight; a gallant young man. "Mount, chevaliers; to arms." Shak.

A valuable breed of mountain sheep in Scotland, which takes its name from the Cheviot hills.

A small rodent (Lagamys princeps) inhabiting the summits of the Rocky Mountains; -- also called crying hare, calling hare, cony, American pika, and little chief hare.

A small rent paid to the lord paramount. [Obs.] Swift.

ly wind from the country of the Chinooks, sometimes experienced on the slope of the Rocky Mountains, in Montana and the adjacent territory.

A kind of circular valley in the side of a mountain, walled around by precipices of great height.

On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane.

The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing house. Clearing house, the establishment where the business of clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

to open; to crack; to separate; as parts of bodies; as, the ground cleaves by frost. The Mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst. Zech. xiv. 4.

To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet.

To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] Tusser.