Word Meanings - MOUNTAIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains. 3. A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain , a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in

Additional info about word: MOUNTAIN

A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains. 3. A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk. I should have been a mountain of mummy. Shak. The Mountain , a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of seats. (more info) montanea, montania, fr. L. mons, montis, a mountain; cf. montanus 1. A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount. 2. pl.

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• WHITECAP
  The European redstart; -- so called from its white forehead. The whitethroat; -- so called from its gray head. The European tree sparrow. 2. A wave whose crest breaks into white foam, as when the wind is freshening.
• WHITE-FRONTED
  Having a white front; as, the white-fronted lemur. White- fronted goose , the white brant, or snow goose. See Snow goose, under Snow.
• WHITE FLY
  Any one of numerous small injurious hemipterous insects of the genus Aleyrodes, allied to scale insects. They are usually covered with a white or gray powder.
• POPULARIZATION
  The act of making popular, or of introducing among the people.
• WHITESTER
  A bleacher of lines; a whitener; a whitster.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• WHITE-HEART
  A somewhat heart-shaped cherry with a whitish skin.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• RANGEMENT
  Arrangement. Waterland.
• WHITESIDE
  The golden-eye.
• PARTY
  1. A part or portion. "The most party of the time." Chaucer. 2. A number of persons united in opinion or action, as distinguished from, or opposed to, the rest of a community or association; esp., one of the parts into which a people is divided
• SHOULDER-SHOTTEN
  Sprained in the shoulder, as a horse. Shak.
• WHITE-EAR
  The wheatear.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• MOUNTAIN
  1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer. 2. Like a mountain;
• WHITEBLOW
  See WHITLOW
• CHAINWORK
  Work looped or linked after the manner of a chain; chain stitch work.
• WHITEWING
  The chaffinch; -- so called from the white bands on the wing. The velvet duck.
• WHITEWALL
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.
• TOP-CHAIN
  A chain for slinging the lower yards, in time of action, to prevent their falling, if the ropes by which they are hung are shot away.
• SHEET CHAIN
  A chain sheet cable.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• ORANGEADE
  A drink made of orange juice and water, corresponding to lemonade; orange sherbet.
• DERANGER
  One who deranges.
• CITRANGE
  A citrous fruit produced by a cross between the sweet orange and the trifoliate orange . It is more acid and has a more pronounced aroma than the orange; the tree is hardier. There are several varieties.
• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• HEPPELWHITE
  Designating a light and elegant style developed in England under George III., chiefly by Messrs. A.Heppelwhite & Co.
• HUMP-SHOULDERED
  Having high, hunched shoulders. Hawthorne.