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A narrow passage between two elevation; a deep, close pass; a defile; as, the notch of a mountain.

To amount; to equal in number; to contain; to consist of; as, the army numbers fifty thousand. Thy tears can not number the dead. Campbell. Numbering machine, a machine for printing consecutive numbers, as on railway tickets, bank bills, etc.

In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet.

, by which its inclination to the plane of the ecliptic is constantly varying by a small amount.

A goddess of the mountains, forests, meadows, or waters. Where were ye, nymphs, when the remorseless deep Closed o'er the head of your loved Lycidas Milton.

blique; deviation from a right line; deviation from parallelism or perpendicularity; the amount of such deviation; divergence; as, the obliquity of the ecliptic to the equator.

A spur from a range of hills or mountains.

A meteorite characterized by the presence of but a small amount of metallic iron.

Of or pertaining to Olympus, a mountain of Thessaly, fabled as the seat of the gods, or to Olympia, a small plain in Elis. Olympic games, or Olympics (Greek Antiq.), the greatest of the national festivals of the ancient Greeks, consisting of athletic games and races, dedicated to Olympian Zeus, celebrated once in four…

A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.

o trade. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount. Cowper.

ce. Garden orache, a plant (Atriplex hortensis), often used as a pot herb; -- also called mountain spinach.

One of the nymphs of mountains and grottoes. Like a wood nymph light, Oread or Dryad. Milton.

A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

The science of mountains; orography.

The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest. In orle, round the escutcheon, leaving the middle of the field vacant, or occupied by something else; -- said of bearings arranged on the shield in the form of an orle.

That branch of science which treats of mountains and mountain systems; orology; as, the orography of Western Europe.

The science or description of mountains.

act or move in a fickle or fluctuating manner; to change repeatedly, back and forth. The amount of superior families oscillates rather than changes, that is, it fluctuates within fixed limits. Dc Quincey.

An instrument for measuring the amount of osmotic action in different liquids.