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v. t. To munch. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding. ] To fortify or inclose with a mound. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L. manus. See Manual. ] An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. [ 1913 Webster ]

To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mound bird. (Zool.) See moundbird in the vocabulary. --
Mound builders (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. --
Mound maker (Zool.), any one of the megapodes. See also moundbird in the vocabulary. --
Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. monde the world, L. mundus. See Mundane. ] A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any of several large-footed short-winged birds of Australasia, which build mounds of decaying vegetation to incubate eggs. Called also mound builder, mound maker, megapode, brush turkey, and scrub fowl.
Syn. -- megapode, mound builder, scrub fowl, brush turkey. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ 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, Monte, Montem. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi. 6. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ See Mont de piété. ] A bank; a fund. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Palmistry) 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. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Mount, v. ] That upon which a person or thing is mounted, especially: (a) A horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount. G. Eliot. [ 1913 Webster ]

(b) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb; as, to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Shall we mount again the rural throne? Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. “To mount the Trojan troop.” Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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.; as, to mount a picture or diploma in a frame [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To raise aloft; to lift on high. [ 1913 Webster ]

What power is it which mounts my love so high? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ A fort or ship is said to mount cannon, when it has them arranged for use in or about it. [ 1913 Webster ]

To mount guard (Mil.), to go on guard; to march on guard; to do duty as a guard. --
To mount a play, to prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc., used in the play. [ 1913 Webster ]