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A short ridge connecting two higher elevations or mountains; the pass over such a ridge.

not merely in its size, but in its structure, which is that of a large basin bordered by mountain chains; as, the continent of North America.

To tend to one point; to incline and approach nearer together; as, lines converge. The mountains converge into a single ridge. Jefferson.

A mountain ridge or chain.

ithout spots; hence writers often called it the American lion. Called also puma, panther, mountain lion, and catamount. See Puma.

A spur or projection of a mountain. Imp. Dict.

A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]

-id), which bears acid red berries which are sometimes used in cookery; -- locally called mountain cranberry.

Full of crags; rugged with projecting points of rocks; as, the craggy side of a mountain. "The craggy ledge." Tennyson.

Algonquin tribe of Indians, inhabiting a large part of British America east of the Rocky Mountains and south of Hudson's Bay.

The summit of a hill or mountain ridge.

companied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

The topmost part of anything; the summit. The steepy crown of the bare mountains. Dryden.

celand, and used in certain optical instruments, as the polariscope. -- Rock crystal, or Mountain crystal, any transparent crystal of quartz, particularly of limpid or colorless quartz.

own. (a) To sever and cause to fall; to fell; to prostrate. "Timber . . . cut down in the mountains of Cilicia." Knolles. (b) To put down; to abash; to humble, [Obs] "So great is his natural eloquence, that he cuts doun the finest orator." Addison (c) To lessen; to retrench; to curtail; as, to cut down expenses. (d) (N…

A low place between hills; a vle or valley. Where mountaines rise, umbrageous dales descend. Thomson.

and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

crease; diminution; waste; loss. Twit me with the decrements of my pendants. Ford. Rocks, mountains, and the other elevations of the earth suffer a continual decrement. Woodward.

orm or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body. Shak.

To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down.