meaning of mount
1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat ones self on a horse for riding.
3. To attain in value; to amount.
4. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
5. To place ones self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
6. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
7. 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.
8. To raise aloft; to lift on high.
9. That upon which a person or thing is mounted
10. A horse.
11. The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
12. 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.
13. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
14. A bank; a fund.
Related Words
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