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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Moun·tain n.
 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; a large quantity.
    I should have been a mountain of mummy.   --Shak.
 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.