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Definition of Mount

1. Verb. Attach to a support. "The men mount the bookshelves"; "They mounted the aerator on a floating"

2. Noun. A lightweight horse kept for riding only.

3. Verb. Go up or advance. "Sales were climbing after prices were lowered"

4. Noun. The act of climbing something. "It was a difficult climb to the top"

5. Verb. Fix onto a backing, setting, or support. "Mount slides for macroscopic analysis"

6. Noun. A land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill.

7. Verb. Put up or launch. "Mount a campaign against pornography"

8. Noun. A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place. "The diamond was in a plain gold mount"

9. Verb. Get up on the back of. "Mount a horse"

10. Noun. Something forming a back that is added for strengthening.

11. Verb. Go upward with gradual or continuous progress. "They mount up the hill"; "Did you ever climb up the hill behind your house?"

12. Verb. Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance. "Mount a play"

13. Verb. Copulate with. "The bull was riding the cow"

Definition of Mount

1. n. 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.

2. v. i. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

3. v. t. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

4. n. That upon which a person or thing is mounted

5. n. 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.

Definition of Mount

1. Noun. A mountain, as in ''Mount Everest'' ¹

2. Noun. An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on, unlike a draught horse ¹

3. Noun. The number of riders in a cavalry unit or division ¹

4. Noun. A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted, as ''the post is the mount on which the mailbox is installed'' ¹

5. Verb. To go up; climb; ascend: ''to mount stairs''. ¹

6. Verb. To attach an object to a support, as ''to mount a mailbox on a post'' ¹

7. Verb. (computing) To attach a drive or device to the directory structure in order to make it available to the operating system. ¹

8. Verb. To get on top of an animal to mate. ¹

9. Verb. (slang) to have sexual intercourse with someone, something. ¹

10. Verb. To begin a military assault ¹

11. Verb. (obsolete) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive ''up''; to raise; to elevate; to lift ''up''. ¹

12. Verb. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mount

1. to get up on [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Mount

1. 1. 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. 2. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. "Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem." (Jer. Vi. 6) 3. [See Mont de piete] A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piete. Origin: OE. Munt, mont, mount, AS. Munt, fr. L. Mons, montis; cf. L. Minae protections, E. Eminent, menace: cf. F. Mont. Cf. Mount, Mountain, Mont, Monte, Montem. 1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; often with up. "Though Babylon should mount up to heaven." (Jer. Li. 53) "The fire of trees and houses mounts on high." (Cowley) 2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding. 3. To attain in value; to amount. "Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount." (Pope) Origin: OE. Mounten, monten, F. Monter, fr. L. Mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, (above). That upon which a person or thing is mounted, as: A horse. "She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount." (G. Eliot) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting. Origin: From Mount. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mount

mound bird mound builder mound over moundbird moundbirds moundbuilder moundbuilders mounded mounded over mounding

moundlike mounds mounier-kuhn syndrome mounseer mounseers mount up mountable mountain mountain(a) mountain-goat

mountain-lion mountain-reindeer mountain alder mountain anaemia mountain andromeda mountain anemone mountain ash mountain avens mountain azalea

Literary usage of Mount

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"Nothing can possibly be more clear than that it drains the whole of the south side of the entire Owen Stanley Range from mount Victoria to mount Lilley. ..."

2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"mount Sefton; (12) The bivouac for the ascent of mount Cook; (13) mount Tasman. from 10000 feet on mount Cook; (14) Peaks of Liebig range ; (15) mount Cook ..."

3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"He sharpened a controversial ' against the Jews and Mahometans ; 42 and in every state h fended with equal zeal the divine light of mount Thabor, ..."

4. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1900)
"THE ores received at the mount Bischoff works for the half-year ending 30th June, 1899, ... The impurity in the mount Bischoff ores is principally iron, ..."

5. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1890)
"Nothing can possibly be more clear than that it drains the whole of the south side of the entire Owen Stanley Range from mount Victoria to mount Lilley. ..."

6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1907)
"mount Sefton; (12) The bivouac for the ascent of mount Cook; (13) mount Tasman. from 10000 feet on mount Cook; (14) Peaks of Liebig range ; (15) mount Cook ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1902)
"He sharpened a controversial ' against the Jews and Mahometans ; 42 and in every state h fended with equal zeal the divine light of mount Thabor, ..."

8. Report by Tasmania Dept. of Mines (1900)
"THE ores received at the mount Bischoff works for the half-year ending 30th June, 1899, ... The impurity in the mount Bischoff ores is principally iron, ..."

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