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gular dark spots on the neck and limbs, and dark rings on the body. It inhabits the lofty mountain ranges of Asia. Called also once.

of European thrushes, especially the blackbird (Merula merula, or Turdus merula), and the mountain or ring ousel (Turdus torquatus). [Written also ouzel.] Rock ousel (Zoöl.), the ring ousel. -- Water ousel (Zoöl.), the European dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), and the American dipper (C. Mexicanus).

The amount of coal or ore put out from one or more mines, or the quantity of material produced by, or turned out from, one or more furnaces or mills, in a given time.

To exceed in amount of sales; to sell more than.

To get the better of; to surmount; to conquer; to subdue; as, to overcome enemies in battle. This wretched woman overcome Of anguish, rather than of crime, hath been. Spenser.

The act of overdrawing; also, the amount or sum overdrawn.

To make drafts upon or against, in excess of the proper amount or limit.

To gaze; to overlook. [Poetic] "Earth's o'ergazing mountains." Byron.

An instrument for ascertaining the amount of ozone in the atmosphere, or in any gaseous mixture. Faraday.

Pertaining to, or used for, the determination of the amount of ozone; of or relating to ozonometry.

An apparatus employed to indicate the presence, or the amount, of ozone.

Serving to indicate the presence or the amount of ozone.

A path, as over mountains, followed by pack animals.

Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.

pable absurdity; palpable errors. "Three persons palpable." P. Plowman. [Lies] gross as a mountain, open, palpable. Shak. -- Pal"pa*ble*ness, n. -- Pal"pa*bly, adv.

mmal (Ailurus fulgens) having fine soft fur. It is related to the bears, and inhabits the mountains of Northern India.

One of a class of Hungarian mountaineers serving in the Austrian army; -- so called from Pandur, a principal town in the region from which they originally came. [Written also pandoor.] Her whiskered pandours and her fierce hussars. Campbell.

nces of indebtedness; notes; bills of exchange, and the like; as, the bank holds a large amount of his paper.

A leopard; a panther. And more pinch-spotted make them Than pard or cat o'mountain. Shak.

With the lower focal points all in the same plane; -- said of sets of eyepieces so mounted that they may be interchanged without varying the focus of the instrument (as a microscope or telescope) with which they are used.