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(b) The cardboard or cloth on which a
drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Mount"a*ble (?), a. Such as can be
mounted.

Moun"tain (?), n. [OE.
mountaine, montaine, F. montagne, LL.
montanea, montania, fr. L. mons, montis,
a mountain; cf. montanus belonging to a mountain. See 1st
Mount.] 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. 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.

The Mountain (La montagne) (French
Hist.), a popular name given in 1793 to a party of extreme
Jacobins in the National Convention, who occupied the highest rows of
seats.


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