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r earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

Such as can be mounted.

nd; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.

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.

Amount; sum; quantity; extent. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Raised; high. [Obs.]

One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.…

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.

The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.

Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry.

Mountance. [Obs.]

One who mounts.

The act of one that mounts.