| Mount (mount) |
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| n. | (mount) |
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| Mount |
| [OE. munt,
mont, mount, AS. munt, fr. L. mons,
montis] cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent,
menace: cf. F. mont. Cf. Mount,
v., Mountain, Mont |
A mass of earth, or earth and
rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of
mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount
Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.
A bulwark for offense or defense; a
mound.
A bank; a fund.
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To rise on high] to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower
aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
To get up on anything, as a platform or
scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for
riding.
To attain in value; to amount.
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To
get upon; to ascend; to climb.
To place one's self on, as a horse or
other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to
furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
Hence: To put upon anything that sustains
and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth
or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond
by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard,
etc.
To raise aloft; to lift on high.
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That upon which a person or thing is
mounted
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Any
one of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand which are
taken as significant of the influence of "planets," and called the
mounts of Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, the Moon, Saturn, the Sun or
Apollo, and Venus.
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