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"Section M, N, and O"

), 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 (Zoöl.), a ground
pigeon of Jamaica, of the genus Geotrygon.


Moun`tain*eer" (moun`t&ibreve;n*ēr"),
n. [OF. montanier, LL. montanarius.
See Mountain.] 1. An inhabitant of a
mountain; one who lives among mountains.


2. A rude, fierce person. [Obs.]


No savage fierce, bandit, or
mountaineer.
Milton.


Moun`tain*eer", v. i. To live or
act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.


You can't go mountaineering in a flat
country.
H. James.


Moun"tain*er (?), n. A
mountaineer.
[Obs.]


Moun"tain*et (?), n. A small
mountain.
[R.]


Moun"tain*ous (?), a.


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