Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MOUNT'AIN-OUS, a.

1. Full of mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.
2. Large as a mountain; huge; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
3. Inhabiting mountains. [Not used.] Bacon.

MOUNT'AIN-OUS-NESS, n.

The state of being full of mountains. Brerewood.

MOUNT'AIN-PARS-LEY, n.

A plant of the genus Athamanta. Lee.

MOUNT'AIN-ROSE, n.

A plant.

MOUNT'AIN-SOAP, n.

A mineral of a pale brownish black color.

MOUNT'ANT, a. [Fr. montant.]

Rising on high. Shak.

MOUNT'E-BANK, n. [It. montare, to mount, and banco, bench.]

1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies, and thus deludes the ignorant multitude. Persons of this character may be indicted and punished.
2. Any boastful and false pretender. Nothing so impossible in nature, but mountebanks will undertake. Arbuthnot.

MOUNTE-BANK, v.t.

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

MOUNT'E-BANK-ER-Y, n.

Quackery; boastful and vain pretenses. Hammond.

MOUNTED, pp.

Raised; seated on horseback; placed on a carriage; covered or embellished; furnished with guns.

MOUNT'EN-AUNCE, n.

Amount in space. [Not used.] Spenser.

MOUNT'ER, n.

One that mounts or ascends. Swift.

MOUNT'ING, ppr.

Rising; soaring; placing on horseback; ascending an eminence; embellishing.

MOUNT'ING-LY, adv.

By rising or ascending.

MOUNT'Y, n.

The rise of a hawk. Sidney.

MOURN, v.i. [Sax. murnan, myrnan; L. mæreo; allied perhaps to G. and D. murren, to murmur; Fr. morne, sad, sullen. See Murmur, and the root of amarus, bitter, Class Mr, No. 7.]

1. To express grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful. Mourning may be expressed by weeping or audible sounds, or by sobs, sighs or inward silent grief. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep. Gen. xxiii. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Matth. v.
2. To wear the customary habit of sorrow. We mourn in black. Shak. Grieve for an hour perhaps, then mourn a year. Pope.

MOURN, v.t.

1. To grieve for; to lament. But there is an ellipsis of for, the verb not being transitive. When we say, we mourn a friend or a child, the real sense and complete phrase is, we mourn for a friend, or mourn for the loss of a friend. “He mourned his rival's ill success,” that is, be mourned for his rival's ill success. Addison.
2. To utter in a sorrowful manner. The love-lorn nightingale / Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well. Milton.

MOURNE, n. [mōrn; Fr. morne.]

The round end of a staff; the part of a lance to which the steel is faxed, or the ferrule. [Not used.] Sidney. Johnson.

MOURN'ED, pp.

Bewailed; lamented.

MOURN'ER, n.

1. One that mourns or is grieved at any loss or misfortune.
2. One that follows a funeral in the habit of mourning. L'Estrange.
3. Something used at funerals. The mourner eugh and builder oak were there. Dryden.

MOURN'FUL, a.

1. Intended to express sorrow, or exhibiting the appearance of grief; as, a mournful bell; mournful music. Shak. Dryden. No funeral rites nor men in mournful weeds. Shak.
2. Causing sorrow; sad; calamitous; as, a mournful death. Shak.
3. Sorrowful; feeling grief. The mournful fair – / Shall visit her distinguished urn. Prior.

MOURN'FUL-LY, adv.

In a manner expressive of sorrow; with sorrow. Mal. iii.

MOURN'FUL-NESS, n.

1. Sorrow; grief; state of mourning.
2. Appearance or expression of grief.

MOURN'ING, n.

1. The act of borrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow.
2. The dress or customary habit worn by mourners. And e'en the pavements were with mourning hid. Dryden.

MOURN'ING, ppr.

Grieving; lamenting; sorrowing; wearing the appearance of sorrow.