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mountain side
Also with hyphen or as one word. The sloping surface of a mountain below the summit. Also fig.
c1350St. John 533 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 41 By a mountayne syide þai dweld. c1460Towneley Myst. viii. 98 Now am I sett to kepe, vnder thys montayn syde, Byshope Iettyr shepe. 1697Dryden æneid i. 120 He..hurld against the Mountain side His quiv'ring Spear. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xviii. 123 We went along the mountain-side for a time. 1910W. de la Mare Three Mulla-Mulgars xiii. 175 The bare, snow-flecked mountain-side. 1913J. Hulbert in Granta 7 Mar. 255/1 No man is helped up the mountain side of toil by undue ragging. 1960Farmer & Stockbreeder 23 Feb. Suppl. 2/1, I was late and began to run, panting up the mountainside with my hand under my heart. a1963L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) ix. 286 (caption) A recent ‘end-of-world’ forecast was the catastrophe predicted by Indian astrologists in 1962. In Britain, a mountain-side prayer meeting was held to avert this disaster. |