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catamount|ˈkætəmaʊnt|
[Shortened from catamountain.]
†1. = catamountain; a pard or panther. Obs.
1664Power Exp. Philos. i. 5 With clea's or tallons (like a Catamount). 1730–6Bailey (folio) Cat-a-mount, a Mongrel, or wild Cat.
2. A common name in U.S. of the puma or cougar (Felis concolor), also called Panther, Painter, and Mountain (or American) Lion.
1794S. Williams Vermont 86 The catamount seems to be the same animal which the ancients called Lynx. 1825Bro. Jonathan I. 109 A wild beast..I say! twarn't a cattermount tho', was it? 1855O. W. Holmes Poems 193 The woods were full of Catamounts, And Indians red as deer. 1870Emerson Soc. & Solit., Courage Wks. (Bohn) III. 108 The hunter is not alarmed by bears, catamounts, or wolves. 1884Echo 24 Nov. 4/3 In Pennsylvania, bears and catamounts are so numerous..in Pike county as to be a perfect nuisance to the farmers. |