mountain-tobacco 
mountain-tobacco (moun'tan-to-bak"6), H. 
composite plant, Arnica montana. 
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A mountebankish (moun'te-bangk-ish), a. [< 
mountebank + -('s/i 1 .] Characteristic of a moun- 
[< tebank ; quackish ; knavish. 
A Saturnian merchant born in Rugilia, whom for hii 
cunningness 
and mountebankish t 
mouritainward (moun ' tan - ward), adv. 
mountain + -ward.'] In the direction of moun- 
tains; toward the mountains. 
There is a flue view of the country seaward and moun- 
tainward. The Atlantic, LXIV. 355. 
mountain-witch (moun'tan-wich), . A wood- mountebankism (moun'tf-bangk-izm)^ 
pigeon, Gcotrygon sylvatic'a. P. H. Gosse. 
mourn 
that win the game. . . . Mount Saint was played by count- 
ing, and probably did not differ much from Picquet, or 
picket, as it was formerly written, which is said to have 
been played with counters. 
Strutt, Sports and Pastimes, p. 435. 
[< ME. moimttire, mountain; 
in negotiating, and for some Hocos-pocos mounturet, 
mkixh tricks, I transformed to a fox. n,nnt,,r < DV i*>i /</> Tf mnmftir'p Tt, mnn- 
llowell, Parly of Beasts, p. 87. (Dames.) 1 Uiu e, <,Vf . m l1c,H.m it. mow 
, . _ 
mcHtntebank + -ism.'] Same as mountebankery. 
LUMWU) vrwv* Wa v * f oyw* /vw *. - / V\ m J jO ~\ 
mountain-wood (moun'tan-wud), n. Avariety mounted (moun ted), p. a. [Pp. ot mount*, v.] 
of asbestos. See asbestos, 3. 
Mountain wood occurs in soft, tough masses ; it has a 
brown colour, much resembling wood, and is found in Scot- 
laud, France, and the Tyrol. Spans' Encyc. Manuf., 1. 341. 
mountancet, * [ME. mountaunce, montaunce, 
< OF. montance, mountance, a rising, amount, 
< monter, mount: see mount 2 , v. Cf. mounte- 
nance.~] Amount; extent. 
Of al the remenant of myn other care 
Ne sette I nat the mountaunce of a tare. 
Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 712. 
Everyche of hem hath be Zere the mountance of 6 score 
Floreynes. Mandeuille, Travels, p. 38. 
mountant (moun'tant), a. [< F. montant, 
mounting, ppr. of monter, mount: see mounft, 
v. Cf. montant.'] High; raised: a quasi-her- 
aldic epithet. 
Hold up, you sluts, 
Your aprons mountant; you are not oathable 
Although, I know, you'll swear. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 3. 135. 
mountebank (moun'te-bangk), re. and a. [For- 
merly also mountibank; < It. montambanco, 
montimbanco, earlier mania in banco (Florio), a 
mountebank, < montar 1 in banco, play the moun- 
tebank (Florio), lit. mount on a bench : montare, 
banco, bench : see mount 2 , iw 1 , 
1. Raised; especially, set on horseback : as 
mounted police ; specifically, in her., raised 
upon two or more steps, generally three : said 
especially of a cross. 2. Elevated ; set up. m ount 
3. Furnished ; supplied with all necessary ac- 
cessories. 
She is a little haughty; 
Of a small body, she has a mind well mounted. 
Fletcher, Wildgoose Chase, ii. 2. 
Mounted Andrewt, a merry-andrew or mountebank. 
Daviett. 
While mounted Andrews, bawdy, bold, and loud, 
Like cocks, alarum all the drowsy crowd. 
Verses prefixed to Rennet's tr. of Erasmus's Praise of Folly. 
Mounted cornet, in organ-building : See cornet*, 1 (c). 
-Mounted power, a horse-power designed for service 
without dismounting. E. H. Knight. Mounted work, 
silverware of which the ornaments are soldered on instead mOUntyt (moun ti),?i. 
tatura, < ML. as if *montatura, a mounting, < 
montare, mount: see mount 2 . Cf. monture.'] 1. 
A mounting. 
The mounture so well made, and for my pitch so fit, 
mount ; in, on ; , , , 
bank 1 , bench. Cf.saltimbanco.~\ I. n. 1. A peri- 
patetic quack; one who prescribes and sells 
nostrums at fairs and similar gatherings. 
We see the weakness and credulity of men is such as they mounter (moun'ter), n. 
will often prefer a mountebank or witch before a learned 
physician. Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 190. 
The front looking on the greate bridge is possess'd by 
mountebanks, operators, and puppet-players. 
of being raised in relief from the body itself by chasing or 
repousse" work. 
mounteet (moun'te), n. Same as mounty. 
mountenancet (moun'te-nans), n. [s ME. 
moiintenance, also mowntenaunce, montenance, 
an erroneous form (appar. simulating the form 
of maintenance) of mountance: see mountance.'] 
Amount ; space ; extent. Compare mountance. m0 urf 
The montenans of dayes three, 
He herd bot swoghyne of the node. 
Thomas of Ersseldoune (Child's Ballads, I. 103). 
Man can not get the mount'nance of an egg-shell 
To stay hjs stomach. B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, iii. 5. 
-erl. Cf. 
As though I see faire peeces moe, yet few so fine as it. 
Gascoigne, Complaint of the Greene Knight. 
2. A horse or other animal to be ridden; a 
int. 
After messe a morsel he & his men token, 
Miry watz the momyng, his mounture he askes. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1691. 
Most writers agree that Porus was four cubits and a 
shaft length high, and that being upon an elephant's back 
he wanted nothing in higlit and bigness to be proportion- 
able for his mounture, albeit it were a very great elephant. 
Horth, tr. of Plutarch, p. 584. 
3. A throne. 
And in the myddes of this palays is the mountour for 
the grete Cane that is alle wrought of gold and of pre- 
cyous stones and grete perles. Mandeville, Travels, p. 217. 
[Also motmtic, mowntee; 
OP. montee, a mounting, rising, prop. pp. of 
monter, mount: see mount 2 , t'.] In hawking, 
the act of rising up to the prey that is already 
in the air. 
[<mounfl 
F. montcur."] 1. One who mounts or ascends. 
2. One who furnishes or embellishes; one 
The sport which for that day Basilius would principally 
show to Zelmane was the mountie at a beam. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, ii. 
uiuuii. n. A variant of wore*. 
niourdantt, . An obsolete form of mordant. 
Mouriria (mo-rir'i-S), re. [NL. (A. L. de 
Jussieu, 1789), < mouririchiri, native name in 
Guiana.] A genus of dicotyledonous shrubs, of 
the polypetalous order Melastomacece and of 
the tribe Memecylew, all other genera of which 
have the ovary with more than one cell. About 
~~ species are known, found from Mexico to Brazil, es- 
**. ^ji+\j - 3^ species are Known, louuu iium nr.\u<p m JHVHUI co- 
who applies suitable appurtenances or orna- pecially in Guiana. They bear small rosy-yellow or white 
ments: as, a mounter of fans or canes. 3f. 
An animal mounted; a monture. 
=Syn. 1. J 
n. . 
lountel 
doctor. 
Observed ye, yon reverend lad 
Mak's faces to tickle the mob ; 
He rails at our mountebank squad- 
It's rivalry just i' the job. 
Burns, Jolly Beggars. 
2. Produced by quackery or jugglery. 
Every mountebank trick was a great accomplishment 
there [in Abyssinia]. 
Bruce, Source of the Nile, Int., p. Ixxiv. 
Mountebank shrimp. See shrimp. 
mountebank (moun'te-bangk), v. [< mounte- 
r.] 1. The act of rising or ascending ; espe- 
cially, the act of getting on horseback ; ascent ; 
soaring. 
There was mounting 'mong Graemes of the Netherby clan ; 
Forsters, Fenwicks, and Musgraves, they rode and they 
ran. Scott, Young Lochinvar. 
It was in solitude, among the flowery ruins of ancient 
Rome, that his highest mountings of the mind, his finest 
trances of thought, came to Shelley. 
E. Doivden, Shelley, II. 261. 
Diary, Feb. 3, 1644. 
Perhaps the latest mountebank in England was about 
twenty years ago, in the vicinity of Yarmouth He was And forward 8purr ' d his mounter fierce withal, 
selling ''cough drops and infallible cures for the asthma. Within his arms longing his foe to strain. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 217. Fairfax, tr. of Tasso, vii. 96. 
Hence 2. Any impudent and unscrupulous mountiet, See niounty. 
pretender; a charlatan. mounting(moun'ting), n. [Verbal n . of mount 2 , 
Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will 
undertake. Arbuthnot, Hist. John Bull. 
I tremble for him [William IV.] ; at present he is only a 
mountebank, but he bids fair to be a maniac. 
Gremlle, Memoirs, July 30, 1830. 
3. The short-tailed African kite, Helotarsus 
ecauda'MS : so called from its aerial tumbling. 
Syn. 1. Empiric, etc. See quack, n. 
1. Pertaining to or consisting of 
mountebanks; sham; quack: as, a mountebank 
2. The act or ai't of setting stuffed skins of 
animals in a natural attitude; taxidermy. 
3. That which serves to mount anything, as a 
sword-blade, a print, or a gem: see mount 2 , v., 
7. 4. That which is or may be mounted for 
use or ornament : as, the mountings for an an- 
gler's rod. 5. Same as harness, 5. 
mounting (moun'ting), a. In her., rising or 
climbing : applied to beasts of chase when they 
are represented in the position called rampant 
,-.-.,- in case of a beast of prey. Compare mountant. 
bank,n.l I. trans. 1. To cheat by unscrupu- mounting-block (moun'ting-blok), n. A block, 
lous and impudent arts ; gull. generally of stone, used in mounting on horse- 
1 11 mountebank their loves, 
Cog their hearts from them. . . ... ... , ^ . . 
Shak., Cor., iii. 2. 132. mountmgly (moun'tmg-li), adv. By rising or 
2. To introduce or insinuate by delusive arts ascending; so as to rise high. 
But leap'd for Joy, 
So mounlingly I touch'd the stars, methought. 
Middleton, Massinger, and Rowley, Old Law, ii. 1. 
mounting-stand (moun'ting-stand), n. A small 
table containing a sand-bath, heated by a 
lamp, and having adjustable legs and other 
or pretensions. 
Men of Paracelsian parts, well complexioned for hones- 
ty : ... such are fittest to Mountebanke his [Beelzebub's] 
Chimistry into sicke Churches and weake Judgements. 
N. Ward, Simple Cobler, p. 2. 
II. intrans. To play the mountebank: with 
indefinite it. 
Say if 'tis wise to spurn all rules, all censures, 
And mountebank it in the public ways. 
Till she becomes a jest. 
Kingdey, Saint's Tragedy, ii. 4. 
mountebankery (moun'te-bangk-er-i), n. [< 
mountebank + -ery.~] The practices of a mounte- 
bank; quackery; unscrupulous and impudent 
pretensions. 
Whilst all others are experimented to be but mere em- 
pirical state mountebankery. Hammond, Works, IV. 509. 
mountebanking (moun'te-bangk -ing), . [Ver- 
bal n. of mountebank, .] Mountebankery. 
mountebanking. 
Thackeray, Roundabout Papers, De Juventute. 
conveniences for mounting objects for exami- 
nation with a microscope. 
mountlett (mount'let), . [< OF. mantelet, dim. 
of mont, mountain: see mount 1 and -let.'} A 
small mountain ; a hill. 
Those snowie mountelets, through which doe creepe 
The milkie riuers that ar inly bred 
In siluer cisternes. G. Fletcher, Christ's Victorie, st. 50. 
mount-needlework (mount'ne''dl-werk), . 
Decorative needlework, embroidery, etc., moUTJlH, n. 
wrought upon a foundation which is mounted 
or stretched in a frame. Diet, of 
flowers, rigid sessile opposite leaves, and round coriaceous 
berries. M. myrtuloidet of the West Indies is called 
small-leafed ironwood, and, with the genus in general, 
stiverwood. 
mourn 1 (morn), ?'. [< ME. mournen, mornen, 
murnen, < AS. murnan, meornan = OS. mornian, 
mornon = OHG. mornen = Goth, maurnan = 
Icel. morna, grieve, mourn. Connection with 
G. murren = Icel. murra, murmur, grieve, L. 
murmurare, murmur, and with L. mcerere, mat- 
rere, mcereri, be sad, grieve, mourn, Gr. utpipva, 
care, etc., is doubtful.] I. intrans. 1. To ex- 
press grief or sorrow; grieve; be sorrowful; 
lament. 
Alisaundrine anon attelede to hire boure, 
& morned neigh for road for Meliors hire ladi. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. 8.), 1. 1760. 
Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be com- 
forted. Mat. v. 4. 
A plentifull Haruest found not labourers to inne it, but 
shed it selfe on the ground, and the cattell mourned for 
want of milkers. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 631. 
2. To display the appearance of grief; wear 
the customary habiliments of sorrow. 
We mourn in black ; why mourn we not in blood? 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 1. 17. 
What though no friends in sable weeds appear, 
Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. 
Pope, Elegy to an Unfortunate Lady, 1. 56. 
=Syn. 1. Grieve, etc. See lament, v. i. 
II. trans. 1. To grieve for; lament; bewail; 
deplore. 
As when a father mourns 
His children all in view destroy'd at once. 
Milton, P. L., xi. 760. 
Portius himself oft falls in tears before me, 
As if he mourn'd his rival's ill success. 
Addison, Cato, i. ti. 
I go at least to bear a tender part, 
And mourn my lov'd one with a mother's heart. 
Pope, Iliad, xviii. 84. 
2. To convey or express grief for. 
Soft is the note, and sad the lay, 
That mourns the lovely Rosabel! e. 
Scott, L. of L. M., vi. 23. 
mourn 1 !, [ME. murne: see mourn 1 , v.~] Sor- 
rowful. 
Ther let we hem sojourne, 
And speke we of chaunces hard and murne. 
Arthour and Merlin, p. 308. (Hattimll.) 
[< mourn 1 , r.] Sorrow. 
Mount Saintt. An obsolete card-game. 
Coeval with Gleek we find Mount Saint or more properly mOUm~t, '' 
Cent, in Spanish Cientos, or hundred, the number of points mourn I tii/ ; 
Hold, take her at the hands of Radagon, 
A pretty peat to drive your mourn away. 
Greene and Lodge, Looking-Glass for Lond. and Eng., p. 1 24. 
{(Dames.) 
I. [Found first m the yeibal noun 
prob. orig. as a noun, "mourne, er- 
