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mountain green (gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
    superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
    groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
    gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
    Grow.]
    1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
       resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
       between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
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    2. Having a sickly color; wan.
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             To look so green and pale.            --Shak.
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    3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
       as, a green manhood; a green wound.
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             As valid against such an old and beneficent
             government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
                                                   --Burke.
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    4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
       fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
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    5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
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             We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
                                                   Watts.
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    6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
       young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
       judgment.
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             I might be angry with the officious zeal which
             supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
             gray hairs.                           --Sir W.
                                                   Scott.
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    7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
       green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
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    8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
       enviroment; -- of political parties and political
       philosophies; as, the European green parties.
       [PJC]
 
    Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
       rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
       leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
       United States; -- called also cat brier.
 
    Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
 
    Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
       menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
       named joe-rocker.
 
    Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
       unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
       crop, etc.
 
    Green diallage. (Min.)
       (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
       (b) Smaragdite.
 
    Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
       (Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
       -- called also dragon root.
 
    Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
       cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
       as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
       
 
    Green ebony.
       (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
           a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
           work, and in dyeing.
       (b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
 
    Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
       green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
       chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
       to which the color of the flame is due.
 
    Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
       aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
 
    Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
 
    Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
       Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
       outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
 
    Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
 
    Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
       the West Indies and in South America, used for
       shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
       Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
       the Colubrina ferruginosa.
 
    Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
 
    Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
       -- called also green sloke.
 
    Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
 
    Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
 
    Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
 
    Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
 
    Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
       See Greengill.
 
    Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
       (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
       trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
       Indies early in the last century, and has become very
       abundant there.
 
    Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
       salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
       of platinum.
 
    Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
       slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
 
    Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
       vessel's deck.
 
    Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
 
    Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
       (Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
       bright green in color.
 
    Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
       Turtle.
 
    Green vitriol.
       (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
           substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
           inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
       (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
           of iron}.
 
    Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
       yet baked.
 
    Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
       (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
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Mountain green (gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
    1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
       spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
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    2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
       verdant herbage; as, the village green.
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             O'er the smooth enameled green.       --Milton.
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    3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
       wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
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             In that soft season when descending showers
             Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                   --Pope.
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    4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
       etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
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    5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
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    Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid
       derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald
       green; -- called also Helvetia green.
 
    Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
 
    Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling
       emerald green in composition.
 
    Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
 
    Chrome green. See under Chrome.
 
    Emerald green. (Chem.)
       (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a
           metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for
           dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a
           brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green,
           acid green, malachite green, Victoria green,
           solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double
           chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.
       (b) See Paris green (below).
 
    Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the
       French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially
       of a basic hydrate of chromium.
 
    Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff,
       obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow
       luster; -- called also light-green.
 
    Mineral green. See under Mineral.
 
    Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
 
    Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting
       of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and
       arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a
       pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but
       particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato
       bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, {imperial
       green}, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and {mitis
       green}.
 
    Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting
       essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called
       also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments
       called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green,
       nereid green, or emerald green.
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Mountain green (gcide) | Mountain \Moun"tain\ (moun"t[i^]n), a.
    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.
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    2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
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             The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
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    Mountain antelope (Zool.), the goral.
 
    Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
       Americana} (or Sorbus Americana), producing beautiful
       bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its
       flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European
       species is the Pyrus aucuparia, or rowan tree.
 
    Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
       transportation, used in measuring the heights of
       mountains.
 
    Mountain beaver (Zool.), the sewellel.
 
    Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
 
    Mountain cat (Zool.), the catamount. See Catamount.
 
    Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
       generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
 
    Mountain cock (Zool.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie.
 
    Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
       cork in its texture.
 
    Mountain crystal. See under Crystal.
 
    Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
       Simaruba (Simaruba amarga) growing in the West Indies,
       which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes
       used in medicine.
 
    Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often
       illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]
 
    Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
       variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
       because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
       in tanning.
 
    Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
       fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
 
    Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
       Fumitory.
 
    Mountain goat. (Zool.) See Mazama.
 
    Mountain green. (Min.)
       (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
       (b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
 
    Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
       Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
       It is found in the Northern United States.
 
    Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
       latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
       clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
       poisonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and
       calico bush. See Kalmia.
 
    Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
       leather in its texture.
 
    Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium
       (Trifolium Alpinum).
 
    Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
       strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
       standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.
 
    Mountain linnet (Zool.), the twite.
 
    Mountain magpie. (Zool.)
       (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
       (b) The European gray shrike.
 
    Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
 
    Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
       occurring as an efflorescence.
 
    Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
       lime.
 
    Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint.
 
    Mountain ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel; -- called also
       mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel.
 
    Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of
       Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched
       palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
       leaves.
 
    Mountain quail (Zool.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
       pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
       plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
       chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
       and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
 
    Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in
       position and direction.
 
    Mountain rice. (Bot.)
       (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
           in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
       (b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis).
 
    Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
       flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
       alpina}).
 
    Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
       color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
 
    Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
       digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
       greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
       Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.
 
    Mountain sparrow (Zool.), the European tree sparrow.
 
    Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.
 
    Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
       montana}) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.
 
    Mountain witch (Zool.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
       genus Geotrygon.
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  | | podobné slovo | definícia |  
Mountain green (gcide) | Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), a. [Compar. Greener (gr[=e]n"[~e]r);
    superl. Greenest.] [OE. grene, AS. gr[=e]ne; akin to D.
    groen, OS. gr[=o]ni, OHG. gruoni, G. gr["u]n, Dan. & Sw.
    gr["o]n, Icel. gr[ae]nn; fr. the root of E. grow. See
    Grow.]
    1. Having the color of grass when fresh and growing;
       resembling that color of the solar spectrum which is
       between the yellow and the blue; verdant; emerald.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. Having a sickly color; wan.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             To look so green and pale.            --Shak.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    3. Full of life and vigor; fresh and vigorous; new; recent;
       as, a green manhood; a green wound.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             As valid against such an old and beneficent
             government as against . . . the greenest usurpation.
                                                   --Burke.
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    4. Not ripe; immature; not fully grown or ripened; as, green
       fruit, corn, vegetables, etc.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    5. Not roasted; half raw. [R.]
       [1913 Webster]
 
             We say the meat is green when half roasted. --L.
                                                   Watts.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    6. Immature in age, judgment, or experience; inexperienced;
       young; raw; not trained; awkward; as, green in years or
       judgment.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             I might be angry with the officious zeal which
             supposes that its green conceptions can instruct my
             gray hairs.                           --Sir W.
                                                   Scott.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    7. Not seasoned; not dry; containing its natural juices; as,
       green wood, timber, etc. --Shak.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    8. (Politics) Concerned especially with protection of the
       enviroment; -- of political parties and political
       philosophies; as, the European green parties.
       [PJC]
 
    Green brier (Bot.), a thorny climbing shrub ({Emilaz
       rotundifolia}) having a yellowish green stem and thick
       leaves, with small clusters of flowers, common in the
       United States; -- called also cat brier.
 
    Green con (Zool.), the pollock.
 
    Green crab (Zool.), an edible, shore crab ({Carcinus
       menas}) of Europe and America; -- in New England locally
       named joe-rocker.
 
    Green crop, a crop used for food while in a growing or
       unripe state, as distingushed from a grain crop, root
       crop, etc.
 
    Green diallage. (Min.)
       (a) Diallage, a variety of pyroxene.
       (b) Smaragdite.
 
    Green dragon (Bot.), a North American herbaceous plant
       (Aris[ae]ma Dracontium), resembling the Indian turnip;
       -- called also dragon root.
 
    Green earth (Min.), a variety of glauconite, found in
       cavities in amygdaloid and other eruptive rock, and used
       as a pigment by artists; -- called also mountain green.
       
 
    Green ebony.
       (a) A south American tree (Jacaranda ovalifolia), having
           a greenish wood, used for rulers, turned and inlaid
           work, and in dyeing.
       (b) The West Indian green ebony. See Ebony.
 
    Green fire (Pyrotech.), a composition which burns with a
       green flame. It consists of sulphur and potassium
       chlorate, with some salt of barium (usually the nitrate),
       to which the color of the flame is due.
 
    Green fly (Zool.), any green species of plant lice or
       aphids, esp. those that infest greenhouse plants.
 
    Green gage, (Bot.) See Greengage, in the Vocabulary.
 
    Green gland (Zool.), one of a pair of large green glands in
       Crustacea, supposed to serve as kidneys. They have their
       outlets at the bases of the larger antenn[ae].
 
    Green hand, a novice. [Colloq.]
 
    Green heart (Bot.), the wood of a lauraceous tree found in
       the West Indies and in South America, used for
       shipbuilding or turnery. The green heart of Jamaica and
       Guiana is the Nectandra Rodi[oe]i, that of Martinique is
       the Colubrina ferruginosa.
 
    Green iron ore (Min.) dufrenite.
 
    Green laver (Bot.), an edible seaweed (Ulva latissima);
       -- called also green sloke.
 
    Green lead ore (Min.), pyromorphite.
 
    Green linnet (Zool.), the greenfinch.
 
    Green looper (Zool.), the cankerworm.
 
    Green marble (Min.), serpentine.
 
    Green mineral, a carbonate of copper, used as a pigment.
       See Greengill.
 
    Green monkey (Zool.) a West African long-tailed monkey
       (Cercopithecus callitrichus), very commonly tamed, and
       trained to perform tricks. It was introduced into the West
       Indies early in the last century, and has become very
       abundant there.
 
    Green salt of Magnus (Old Chem.), a dark green crystalline
       salt, consisting of ammonia united with certain chlorides
       of platinum.
 
    Green sand (Founding) molding sand used for a mold while
       slightly damp, and not dried before the cast is made.
 
    Green sea (Naut.), a wave that breaks in a solid mass on a
       vessel's deck.
 
    Green sickness (Med.), chlorosis.
 
    Green snake (Zool.), one of two harmless American snakes
       (Cyclophis vernalis, and C. [ae]stivus). They are
       bright green in color.
 
    Green turtle (Zool.), an edible marine turtle. See
       Turtle.
 
    Green vitriol.
       (a) (Chem.) Sulphate of iron; a light green crystalline
           substance, very extensively used in the preparation of
           inks, dyes, mordants, etc.
       (b) (Min.) Same as copperas, melanterite and {sulphate
           of iron}.
 
    Green ware, articles of pottery molded and shaped, but not
       yet baked.
 
    Green woodpecker (Zool.), a common European woodpecker
       (Picus viridis); -- called also yaffle.
       [1913 Webster]Green \Green\ (gr[=e]n), n.
    1. The color of growing plants; the color of the solar
       spectrum intermediate between the yellow and the blue.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. A grassy plain or plat; a piece of ground covered with
       verdant herbage; as, the village green.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             O'er the smooth enameled green.       --Milton.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    3. Fresh leaves or branches of trees or other plants;
       wreaths; -- usually in the plural.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             In that soft season when descending showers
             Call forth the greens, and wake the rising flowers.
                                                   --Pope.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    4. pl. Leaves and stems of young plants, as spinach, beets,
       etc., which in their green state are boiled for food.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    5. Any substance or pigment of a green color.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    Alkali green (Chem.), an alkali salt of a sulphonic acid
       derivative of a complex aniline dye, resembling emerald
       green; -- called also Helvetia green.
 
    Berlin green. (Chem.) See under Berlin.
 
    Brilliant green (Chem.), a complex aniline dye, resembling
       emerald green in composition.
 
    Brunswick green, an oxychloride of copper.
 
    Chrome green. See under Chrome.
 
    Emerald green. (Chem.)
       (a) A complex basic derivative of aniline produced as a
           metallic, green crystalline substance, and used for
           dyeing silk, wool, and mordanted vegetable fiber a
           brilliant green; -- called also aldehyde green,
           acid green, malachite green, Victoria green,
           solid green, etc. It is usually found as a double
           chloride, with zinc chloride, or as an oxalate.
       (b) See Paris green (below).
 
    Gaignet's green (Chem.) a green pigment employed by the
       French artist, Adrian Gusgnet, and consisting essentially
       of a basic hydrate of chromium.
 
    Methyl green (Chem.), an artificial rosaniline dyestuff,
       obtained as a green substance having a brilliant yellow
       luster; -- called also light-green.
 
    Mineral green. See under Mineral.
 
    Mountain green. See Green earth, under Green, a.
 
    Paris green (Chem.), a poisonous green powder, consisting
       of a mixture of several double salts of the acetate and
       arsenite of copper. It has found very extensive use as a
       pigment for wall paper, artificial flowers, etc., but
       particularly as an exterminator of insects, as the potato
       bug; -- called also Schweinfurth green, {imperial
       green}, Vienna green, emerald qreen, and {mitis
       green}.
 
    Scheele's green (Chem.), a green pigment, consisting
       essentially of a hydrous arsenite of copper; -- called
       also Swedish green. It may enter into various pigments
       called parrot green, pickel green, Brunswick green,
       nereid green, or emerald green.
       [1913 Webster]Mountain \Moun"tain\ (moun"t[i^]n), a.
    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.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
       [1913 Webster]
 
             The high, the mountain majesty of worth. --Byron.
       [1913 Webster]
 
    Mountain antelope (Zool.), the goral.
 
    Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the {Pyrus
       Americana} (or Sorbus Americana), producing beautiful
       bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its
       flowers white, growing in fragrant clusters. The European
       species is the Pyrus aucuparia, or rowan tree.
 
    Mountain barometer, a portable barometer, adapted for safe
       transportation, used in measuring the heights of
       mountains.
 
    Mountain beaver (Zool.), the sewellel.
 
    Mountain blue (Min.), blue carbonate of copper; azurite.
 
    Mountain cat (Zool.), the catamount. See Catamount.
 
    Mountain chain, a series of contiguous mountain ranges,
       generally in parallel or consecutive lines or curves.
 
    Mountain cock (Zool.), capercailzie. See Capercailzie.
 
    Mountain cork (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
       cork in its texture.
 
    Mountain crystal. See under Crystal.
 
    Mountain damson (Bot.), a large tree of the genus
       Simaruba (Simaruba amarga) growing in the West Indies,
       which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes
       used in medicine.
 
    Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often
       illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous]
 
    Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree ({Bauhinia
       variegata}) of the East and West Indies; -- so called
       because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and
       in tanning.
 
    Mountain flax (Min.), a variety of asbestus, having very
       fine fibers; amianthus. See Amianthus.
 
    Mountain fringe (Bot.), climbing fumitory. See under
       Fumitory.
 
    Mountain goat. (Zool.) See Mazama.
 
    Mountain green. (Min.)
       (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper.
       (b) See Green earth, under Green, a.
 
    Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub ({Nemopanthes
       Canadensis}), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries.
       It is found in the Northern United States.
 
    Mountain laurel (Bot.), an American shrub ({Kalmia
       latifolia}) with glossy evergreen leaves and showy
       clusters of rose-colored or white flowers. The foliage is
       poisonous. Called also American laurel, ivy bush, and
       calico bush. See Kalmia.
 
    Mountain leather (Min.), a variety of asbestus, resembling
       leather in its texture.
 
    Mountain licorice (Bot.), a plant of the genus Trifolium
       (Trifolium Alpinum).
 
    Mountain limestone (Geol.), a series of marine limestone
       strata below the coal measures, and above the old red
       standstone of Great Britain. See Chart of Geology.
 
    Mountain linnet (Zool.), the twite.
 
    Mountain magpie. (Zool.)
       (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker.
       (b) The European gray shrike.
 
    Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany.
 
    Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite,
       occurring as an efflorescence.
 
    Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of
       lime.
 
    Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mint.
 
    Mountain ousel (Zool.), the ring ousel; -- called also
       mountain thrush and mountain colley. See Ousel.
 
    Mountain pride, or Mountain green (Bot.), a tree of
       Jamaica (Spathelia simplex), which has an unbranched
       palmlike stem, and a terminal cluster of large, pinnate
       leaves.
 
    Mountain quail (Zool.), the plumed partridge ({Oreortyx
       pictus}) of California. It has two long, slender,
       plumelike feathers on the head. The throat and sides are
       chestnut; the belly is brown with transverse bars of black
       and white; the neck and breast are dark gray.
 
    Mountain range, a series of mountains closely related in
       position and direction.
 
    Mountain rice. (Bot.)
       (a) An upland variety of rice, grown without irrigation,
           in some parts of Asia, Europe, and the United States.
       (b) An American genus of grasses (Oryzopsis).
 
    Mountain rose (Bot.), a species of rose with solitary
       flowers, growing in the mountains of Europe ({Rosa
       alpina}).
 
    Mountain soap (Min.), a soft earthy mineral, of a brownish
       color, used in crayon painting; saxonite.
 
    Mountain sorrel (Bot.), a low perennial plant ({Oxyria
       digyna} with rounded kidney-form leaves, and small
       greenish flowers, found in the White Mountains of New
       Hampshire, and in high northern latitudes. --Gray.
 
    Mountain sparrow (Zool.), the European tree sparrow.
 
    Mountain spinach. (Bot.) See Orach.
 
    Mountain tobacco (Bot.), a composite plant ({Arnica
       montana}) of Europe; called also leopard's bane.
 
    Mountain witch (Zool.), a ground pigeon of Jamaica, of the
       genus Geotrygon.
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