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the ground, or above a given level, or of one object above another; as, the altitude of a mountain, or of a bird above the top of a tree.

Earth flax, or mountain flax; a soft silky variety of asbestus.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the Apennines, a chain of mountains extending through Italy.

r chasm; a passage perforated; a hole; as, an aperture in a wall. An aperture between the mountains. Gilpin. The back aperture of the nostrils. Owen.

The tip, top, point, or angular summit of anything; as, the apex of a mountain, spire, or cone; the apex, or tip, of a leaf.

Of or pertaining to a chain of mountains in the United States, commonly called the Allegheny mountains.

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment and rural happiness.

Of or pertaining to sandstone; as, arenilitic mountains. Kirwan.

An acute and rugged crest of a mountain range or a subsidiary ridge between two mountain gorges.

of wild sheep (Ovis ammon, or O. argali), remarkable for its large horns. It inhabits the mountains of Siberia and central Asia.

An inhabitant of Albania and neighboring mountainous regions, specif. one serving as a soldier in the Turkish army.

A genus of plants; also, the most important species (Arnica montana), native of the mountains of Europe, used in medicine as a narcotic and stimulant.

hium, or common wormwood, is well known, and A. tridentata is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.

re shrubs of different families, somewhat resembling the true ashes in their foliage. -- Mountain ash. See Roman tree, and under Mountain.

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

xxii. 43. Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold. Milton. He had avenged himself on them by havoc such as England had never before seen. Macaulay.

held the Continent in awe. Macaulay. The solitude of the desert, or the loftiness of the mountain, may fill the mind with awe -- the sense of our own littleness in some greater presence or power. C. J. Smith. To stand in awe of, to fear greatly; to reverence profoundly.

An extended upper part, as of a mountain or ridge. [The mountains] their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds. Milton.

Anything like , or serving the purpose of, a backbone. The lofty mountains on the north side compose the granitic axis, or backbone of the country. Darwin. We have now come to the backbone of our subject. Earle.