MPage 253
- English Word Mounding Definition of Mound
- English Word Mount Definition 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.
- English Word Mount Definition A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
- English Word Mount Definition A bank; a fund.
- English Word Mount Definition To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
- English Word Mount Definition To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
- English Word Mount Definition To attain in value; to amount.
- English Word Mount Definition To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
- English Word Mount Definition To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
- English Word Mount Definition To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
- English Word Mount Definition 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.
- English Word Mount Definition To raise aloft; to lift on high.
- English Word Mount Definition That upon which a person or thing is mounted
- English Word Mount Definition A horse.
- English Word Mount Definition The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
- English Word Mountable Definition Such as can be mounted.
- English Word Mountain Definition A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.
- English Word Mountain Definition A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.
- English Word Mountain Definition A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.
- English Word Mountain Definition Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.
- English Word Mountain Definition Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.
- English Word Mountaineer Definition An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.
- English Word Mountaineer Definition A rude, fierce person.
- English Word Mountaineer Definition To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.
- English Word Mountainer Definition A mountaineer.
- English Word Mountainet Definition A small mountain.
- English Word Mountainous Definition Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.
- English Word Mountainous Definition Inhabiting mountains.
- English Word Mountainous Definition Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap.
- English Word Mountainousness Definition The state or quality of being mountainous.