cat-o'-mountain
Britishnoun
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Pass of pate is a thrust or sally of wit. 448-58 Lime is a sticky substance used to catch birds. 448-59 Barnacles here means barnacle-geese, a kind of geese supposed by the superstitious to be produced when certain barnacles or shell-fish fell into the sea water. 449-60 Pard is a contraction for leopard; cat-o’-mountain may be another name for wild-cat, though wild-cats are not spotted.
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Having thus fairly overwhelmed, dumfoundered, and tired out some one with his noise, he would go off in triumph, and say to the bystanders as he went, "There, lads, you see he hadn't a word to say for himself"; and truly a clever fellow must he have been who could have got a word in edgeways when Johnny had once fairly got his steam up, and was shrinking and storming like a cat-o'-mountain.
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Boisterous outlaws also, with huge whiskers and the most cat-o'-mountain aspect; tear-stained sentimentalists, the grimmest man-haters, ghosts and the like suspicious characters will be found in abundance.
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"A cat-o'-mountain!" yelled Fred Hatfield, and as he shouted, the lithe cat sprang over the brush heap and landed in the road, right beside the timber cart.
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"That cat-o'-mountain chase ye, boy?" the hermit asked, sharply.
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