perbromate (medicine) and mountain (iou)

perbromate (medicine)

perbromate
<chemistry> A salt of perbromic acid.

Source: Websters Dictionary

mountain noun. ME.
[Old French montaigne (mod. montagne), from Proto-Romance fem. sing. or neut. pl. of adjective, from Latin mont-, mons MOUNT noun1.]
A large natural elevation of the earth's surface, esp. one high and steep in form (larger and higher than a hill) and with a summit of relatively small area. Also in pl., such elevations constituting a region characterized by remoteness and inaccessibility. ME.
b. A large artificially constructed hill or tumulus. M16-M17.
a. A large heap or pile; a towering mass. Also, a huge quantity of. LME.
S. Kauffmann Mountains of..meaningless, commercial tripe. D. Francis The gaze of both men swept the mountain of paper. Sunday Times Try harder..to overcome the mountain of Debt.
b. A large surplus stock, esp. of a commodity. Freq. with specifying word. Cf. LAKE noun2 2b. M20.
beef mountain, grain mountain, etc.
Times A butter mountain of 1, 032, 000 tonnes and a milk lake of 845, 000 tonnes.
More fully mountain Wine. A variety of Malaga Wine. E18.
French History. the Mountain, an extreme party in the National Convention during the French Revolution, led by Robespierre and Danton, so called because its members occupied the most elevated position in the hall; any of several later political groups or parties of extreme views. Cf. PLAIN noun1 7. E19.
(Mountain.) A steam locomotive of 4-8-2 wheel arrangement. L19.
Phrases etc.: BURNING mountain. cat o' mountain, cat of the mountain: see CATAMOUNTAIN. make a mountain of a molehill, make a mountain out of a molehill: see MOLEHILL. mountain of ice an iceberg. mountains high (of the sea) in huge waves. old man of the mountain: see OLD MAN noun phr. snow-on-the-mountains: see SNOW noun1. the Mountain: see sense 4 above. Welsh mountain (sheep): see WELSH adjective.
Attrib. & comb.: In the senses 'of, belonging to, or characteristic of mountains, occurring among mountains', as mountain air, mountain road, mountain stream, etc.; 'that is a native or inhabitant of mountains, originating among mountains', as mountain tiger, mountain tribe, etc. Special combs., as mountain ash (a) a small European tree of the rose family, Sorbus aucuparia, with pinnate leaves, white flowers, and scarlet berries, esp. characteristic of heathy or hilly districts (also called rowan); also, either of two related N. American trees, S. americana and S. decora; (b) Austral. any of several tall eucalypts, esp. Eucalyptus regnans; mountain AVENS; mountain bat a very small social bat, Emballonura monticola, of Borneo, Java, Sumatra, and the Philippines; mountain beaver a small burrowing rodent, Aplodontia rufa, of forests in the north-western US; also called sewellel; mountain bike a rugged lightweight bicycle with deeply treaded tyres; mountain blackbird the ring ouzel; mountain blue a blue or bluish-copper mineral, esp. (a) azurite; (b) chrysocolla; mountain bluebird N. Amer. a bluebird of western N. America, Sialia currucoides, distinguished by a blue (rather than red) breast; mountain-building the formation of mountains, esp. as a result of folding and thrusting of the earth's crust; mountain cat any of various wild cats of mountainous regions, as the bobcat, the lynx; mountain chain a connected series of mountains; esp. an aggregate of ranges of mountains having a common alignment; mountain chicken colloq. an edible W. Indian frog of the genus Leptodactylus, a crapaud; mountain-climber a person who climbs mountains, esp. as a sport; mountain-climbing the action or activity of climbing mountains, esp. as a sport; mountain cock = CAPERCAILLIE; mountain cranberry US (the fruit of) the cowberry, Vaccinium vitis-idaea; mountain daisy any of various plants of the genus Celmisia, of the composite family, with large daisy-like flowers, mostly confined to the mountains of New Zealand; Mountain DAMARA; mountain devil (a) = MOLOCH 2; (b) Austral. the honey-flower, Lambertia formosa; mountain dew colloq. whisky (esp. Scotch whisky), esp. when illicitly distilled; mountain duck (a) Austral. a chestnut-breasted shelduck, Tadorna tadornoides; (b) NZ the blue duck, Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos (also called whio); mountain ebony (the dark hard wood of) any of several leguminous trees of the genus Bauhinia, esp. the Asian B. variegata and the Australian B. hookeri; mountain fern a fern of mountain pastures, Oreopteris limbosperma, with lemon-scented fronds; mountain fever any of various malarial or typhoid fevers contracted in mountain regions; mountain finch (a) = BRAMBLING; (b) = snow finch s.v. SNOW noun1; mountain flax (a) any of various upland plants; esp. a New Zealand plant, Phormium cookianum, a smaller relative of the New Zealand flax, P. tenax; (b) = AMIANTHUS; mountain-folding the formation of mountains as a result of folding of the earth's crust; mountain gazelle a small gazelle, Gazella gazella, now confined to semidesert and scrub in the Arabian peninsula; mountain goat a goat of mountain regions; esp. a Rocky Mountain goat, Oreamnos americanus; mountain gorilla: of a race occurring at higher altitudes in the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda, with long hair and long teeth; mountain green (a) glauconite or (formerly) malachite, esp. used as a pigment; the colour of this; (b) = mountain pride below; mountain hare a hare, Lepus timidus, of northern Eurasia whose coat is brown in summer and white in winter; also called Arctic hare, blue hare; mountain heath an evergreen alpine shrub, Phyllodoce caerulea, of the heath family; mountain hemlock a large coniferous tree, Tsuga mertensiana, of western N. America; mountain-high adjective (hyperbol.) very high; mountain land Anglo-Irish & US open waste land with poor vegetation, esp. in a hilly or mountainous region; mountain laurel a N. American evergreen shrub, Kalmia latifolia, of the heath family, with glossy leaves and pink flowers; mountain limestone Geology a thick massive Carboniferous limestone; mountain linnet = TWITE; mountain lion: see LION noun; mountain mahogany N. Amer. (a) sweet birch, Betula lenta; (b) any of various shrubs of the genus Cercocarpus, of the rose family; mountain man (a) an inhabiter or frequenter of mountains or mountainous country; (b) US a trapper; a pioneer; mountain maple = MAPLE bush; mountain mint any of various N. American labiate plants of the genus Pycnanthemum, whose leaves smell of mint when crushed; mountain NYALA; mountain oyster a lamb's testicle, as Food; mountain pansy: see PANSY noun 1; mountain panther (a) = snow leopard s.v. SNOW noun1; (b) = PUMA; mountain parrot = KEA; mountain partridge = mountain quail below; mountain plover a small N. American plover, Charadrius montanus; mountain plum (the fruit of) a small spiny neotropical tree, Ximenia americana (family Olacaceae); mountain pride a small W. Indian tree, Spathelia sorbifolia, of the rue family, producing showy purple flowers at the top of an unbranched stem; also called mountain green; mountain quail a brown and grey plumed quail, Oreortyx picta, of western N. America; mountain railway (a) a light railway for transport in mountain regions; (b) a miniature ascending railway designed for amusement; a scenic railway; a funicular railway; mountain range a line or group of mountains connected by elevated ground; mountain rat the bushy-tailed woodrat, Neotoma cinerea, of the western US; mountain reedbuck a small reedbuck, Redunca fulvorufula, of montane grassland in southern, eastern, and central Africa; mountain rescue an organization for rescuing mountaineers, climbers, etc., in distress; mountain rice any of various grasses of the genus Oryzopsis, esp. O. hymenoides, used as grain by N. American Indians; mountain ringlet a satyrid butterfly, Erebia epiphron, of upland in northern Britain and parts of Europe; mountain sheep a sheep of the mountain regions; esp. (N. Amer.) a bighorn; mountain sickness a malady caused by breathing the rarefied air at a great height, altitude sickness; mountainside the sloping surface of a mountain below the summit; mountain slide a landslip occurring on a mountainside; mountain snow a spurge, Euphorbia marginata, of the western US, so called from the broad white border of its bracts; also called snow-on-the-mountain; mountain sorrel: see SORREL noun1; mountain spiderwort: see spiderwort (a) s.v. SPIDER noun; Mountain Standard Time, Mountain Time N. Amer. the standard time of parts of Canada and the US in or near the Rocky Mountains; mountain system a group of mountain ranges in a region, assumed to have been formed by the same geological processes; mountain tea N. Amer. the checkerberry, Gaultheria procumbens; a drink made from an infusion of its leaves; mountain thrush any of several Old World thrushes found in mountainous areas, esp. Zoothera mollissima of the Himalayas and SE Asia and Turdus abyssinicus of E. Africa; Mountain Time: see Mountain Standard Time above; mountain tortoise = leopard-tortoise s.v. LEOPARD noun; mountain trout any of various fishes of mountain streams related to or resembling trout; esp. (chiefly Austral.) any of various fishes of the family Galaxiidae of the southern hemisphere; mountain VISCACHA; mountain Wine: see sense 3 above; mountain witch a brightly coloured Jamaican quail dove, Geotrygon versicolor, of forest undergrowth; mountain zebra a zebra, Equus zebra, which has predominantly black stripes and a white belly, found locally on the mountain grasslands of SW Africa.
mountained adjective (rare, chiefly poet.) (a) situated on a mountain; elevated, lofty; (b) heaped mountain-high; (c) obstructed by mountains; (d) containing mountains: E17.

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