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To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil;…

That maybe maintained.

One who maintains.

One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.

An optical phenomenon sometimes seen on the summit of mountains (as on the Brocken) when the observer is between the sun and a mass of cloud. The figures of the observer and surrounding objects are seen projected on the cloud, greatly enlarged and often encircled by rainbow colors.

Montana; -- a nickname.

An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.

A mountaineer. [Obs.]

A small mountain. [R.]

Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.

The state or quality of being mountainous.

To hold; to keep; to possess. [Obs.] His mother, then, is mortal, but his Sire He who obtains the monarchy of heaven. Milton.

Capable of being obtained.

One who obtains.

The act or process of obtaining; attainment. Milton.

onnection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant life. Men hate those who affect that honor by ambition which pertaineth not to them. Hayward.

) of tropical regions, bearing immense leaves and large clusters of the fruits called plantains. See Musa.

Same as Poly, n.

A captain of a war vessel whose name appeared, or was "posted," in the seniority list of the British navy, as distinguished from a commander whose name was not so posted. The term was also used in the United States navy; but no such commission as post-captain was ever recognized in either service, and the term has fall…