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Parnassus
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828
Part of speech: noun (n.)
A mountain in Greece, sacred to Apollo and the Muses, and famous for a temple of Apollo and for the Castalian spring. Grass of Parnassus. (Bot.) See under Grass, and Parnassia. -- To climb Parnassus, to write poetry. [Colloq.]