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A sloping plain between mountain ridges. [Obs.]

iron box, containing kerosene or coated with tar or other sticky substance, which may be mounted on wheels.

Mounted soldiery; cavalry; -- used without the plural termination; as, a regiment of horse; -- distinguished from foot. The armies were appointed, consisting of twenty-five thousand horse and foot. Bacon.

bowlders, in a half- stratified condition. Agassiz. On horseback, on the back of a horse; mounted or riding on a horse or horses; in the saddle. The long journey was to be performed on horseback. Prescott.

A rider on horseback; one skilled in the management of horses; a mounted man.

or throwing into a common mass or stock, of the estate left by a person deceased and the amounts advanced to any particular child or children, for the purpose of a more equal division, or of equalizing the shares of all the children; the property advanced being accounted for at its value when given. Bouvier. Tomlins.…

To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality. O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day. Ps. cxix. 97. By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth. Bentley.…

h shows whether there is more or less moisture in the atmosphere, without indicating its amount.

A condition of the blood, characterized by an abnormally large amount of fibrin, as in many inflammatory diseases.

Combined with a relatively large amount of oxygen; -- said of higher oxides. [Obs.]

A diminution in the normal amount of fibrin present in the blood.

in use in England as an acknowledgment of a debt, and taken as evidence thereof, but not amounting to a promissory note; a due bill. Wharton. Story.

Loaded with ice. "Ice-built mountains." Gray.

Spangled with ice. Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton.

Of or pertaining to Idalium, a mountain city in Cyprus, or to Venus, to whom it was sacred. "Idalian Aphrodité." Tennyson.

Not honorable, elevated, or generous; base. 'T but a base, ignoble mind, That mounts no higher than a bird can soar. Shak. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife. Gray.

hrow or spread light upon; to make light or bright; to illuminate; to illumine. Shak. The mountain's brow, Illumed with fluid gold. Thomson.

To make brown; to obscure; to darken; to tan; as, features imbrowned by exposure. The mountain mass by scorching skies imbrowned. Byron.

Incapable of being passed; not admitting a passage; as, an impassable road, mountain, or gulf. Milton. -- Im*pass"a*ble*ness, n. -- Im*pass"a*bly, adv.

upon a person's incomes, emoluments, profits, etc., or upon the excess beyond a certain amount.