Mount(n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
Mount(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
Mount(n.) To attain in value; to amount.
Mount(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
Mount(v.) A horse.
Mount(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
Mount(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.
Mount(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Mount(v.) A bank; a fund.
Mount(v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
Mount(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
Mount(v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
Mount(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.
Mount(v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
Mounted(a.) Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted police; mounted infantry.
Mounted(a.) Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.
Mounted(imp. & p. p.) of Mount
Mounting(n.) The act of one that mounts.
Mounting(n.) That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.
Mounting(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mount
Mountingly(adv.) In an ascending manner.
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