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Noting the region of foothills near the base of a mountain chain.

A manganesian kind of epidote, from Piedmont. See Epidote.

Promontory. [R.] Drayton.

the sea beyond the line of coast; a headland; a high cape. Like one that stands upon a promontory. Shak.

Rising again; -- applied to a class of roses which bloom more than once in a season; the hybrid perpetual roses, of which the Jacqueminot is a well-known example.

See under Escapement.

See Rodomontade.

See Rodomontador.

A vain or blustering boaster; a braggart; a braggadocio. Sir T. Herbert.

Vain boasting; empty bluster or vaunting; rant. I could show that the rodomontades of Almanzor are neither so irrational nor impossible. Dryden.

One who boasts.

Rodomontade.

A rodomontadist.

Coming or made twice in a month; as, semimonthly magazine; a semimonthly payment. -- n.

A shaftment. [Scot.]

A dry, cold, violent, northerly wind of the Adriatic.

Lying or being beyond the mountains; coming from the other side of the mountains; hence, foreign; barbarous.

A year which consists of twelve calendar months. I shall laugh at this a twelvemonth hence. Shak.

One who maintains extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy. See Ultramontanism.

The principles of those within the Roman Catholic Church who maintain extreme views favoring the pope's supremacy; -- so used by those living north of the Alps in reference to the Italians; -- rarely used in an opposite sense, as referring to the views of those living north of the Alps and opposed to the papal claims.…