Dictionary entry

Parnassus

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Par‐nas″sus (?), n.(Anc. Geog. & Gr. Myth.) 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.