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Meaning Of Mount

  1. v.
    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.
    A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
  3. v.
    A bank; a fund.
  4. n.
    To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
  5. n.
    To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
  6. n.
    To attain in value; to amount.
  7. v. t.
    To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
  8. v. t.
    To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
  9. v. t.
    To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
  10. v. t.
    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.
  11. v. t.
    To raise aloft; to lift on high.
  12. v.
    That upon which a person or thing is mounted
  13. v.
    A horse.
  14. v.
    The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.



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