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A high, bleak plateau or district, with stunted trees, and cold, damp atmosphere, as in the Andes, in South America.

A kind of pseudomorph, in which there has been a change of physical characters without alteration of chemical composition, as the change of aragonite to calcite.

The change of one mineral species to another, so as to involve a change in physical characters without alteration of chemical composition.

Relating to paramorphism; exhibiting paramorphism.

e highest rank or jurisdiction; superior to all others; chief; supreme; preëminent; as, a paramount duty. "A traitor paramount." Bacon. Lady paramount (Archery), the lady making the best score. -- Lord paramount, the king.

In a paramount manner.

- used of a man or a woman. The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour Macaulay.

By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words. [Obs.] For par amour, I loved her first ere thou. Chaucer.

To exceed in the number of mistresses. [R.] Shak.

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system. Blackstone.

A small rent paid to the lord paramount. [Obs.] Swift.

A woman who cohabits with a man without being his wife; a paramour.

o gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. Spenser. I went to make my court to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. Evelyn.

s. I expect but little success of all this upon the dogmatist; his opinioned assurance is paramount to argument. Glanvill.

of land; an estate or patrimony which one has in his own right; absolute proprietorship; paramount or sovereign ownership. Public domain, the territory belonging to a State or to the general government; public lands. [U.S.]in the public domain may be used by anyone wihout restriction. -- Right of eminent domain, that…

-- said especially of a woman or a man, either married or unmarried, who runs away with a paramour or a sweetheart. Great numbers of them [the women] have eloped from their allegiance. Addison.

A favorite; a paramour; an ingle. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

To dispossess by a judicial process; to dispossess by paramount right or claim of such right; to eject; to oust. The law of England would speedily evict them out of their possession. Sir. J. Davies.

lands, tenements, etc., from another's possession by due course of law; dispossession by paramount title or claim of such title; ejectment; ouster.

To be more or greater; to be paramount. Shak.