Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Mount   /maʊnt/   Listen
noun
Mount  n.  
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. (Obs.) "Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem."
3.
A bank; a fund.
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.
Mount of piety. See Mont de piete.


Mount  n.  That upon which a person or thing is mounted, especially:
(a)
A horse. "She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount."
(b)
The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.


verb
Mount  v. t.  
1.
To get upon; to ascend; to climb; as, to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon. "Shall we mount again the rural throne?"
2.
To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
3.
To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. "To mount the Trojan troop."
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
5.
To raise aloft; to lift on high. "What power is it which mounts my love so high?" Note: A fort or ship is said to mount cannon, when it has them arranged for use in or about it.
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.


Mount  v. i.  (past & past part. mounted; pres. part. mounting)  
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." "The fire of trees and houses mounts on high."
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."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Mount" Quotes from Famous Books



... desisted from the pursuit, and hurried back to her nest. But the avenging wrath of the male was not so easily pacified. Finding the tormentor still at his head, the hawk remembered the security of the upper air, and began to mount in sharp spirals. The king-bird pursued till, seen from the earth, he seemed no bigger than a bee dancing over the hawk's back. Then he disappeared altogether; and the hawk, but for his nervous, harassed flight, ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts
... so inferred there must be a Northeast Passage. By April, Cook's ships were once more afloat, {321} gliding among the sylvan channels of countless wooded islands up past Sitka harbor, where the Russians later built their fort, round westward beneath the towering opal dome of Mount St. Elias, which Bering had named, to the waters bordering Alaska; but, as the world knows, though the ships penetrated up the channels of many roily waters, they found no open passage. Cook comes down to the Sandwich Islands, New Year of 1779. There the vices of his ...
— Canada: the Empire of the North - Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom • Agnes C. Laut
... and women were reclining or sitting at their ease. They listened to the words of the man in their midst, who was preaching, while they abstractedly pulled heather, stripped ferns, or tossed pebbles down the slope. This was the first of a series of moral lectures or Sermons on the Mount, which were to be delivered from the same place every Sunday afternoon as long ...
— The Return of the Native • Thomas Hardy
... without another word and went to the door. Pechaud followed him, and began to urge something, but was silenced with a rough word. Then he called for a light. Pechaud came running back for the lantern, and through the open door, as the light flickered on him, I saw De Ganache mount. Once he glanced back at me. He could see nothing, for I was in darkness, but the light which fell on his features showed him pale as ashes. The horse backed a little. He drove his spurs in with an oath, and then I heard him hammering through the night, going—God knows ...
— Orrain - A Romance • S. Levett-Yeats
... might be—and of their nature he was not fully aware—that she had conjured up against the continuance of their relation to each other. He left his father—he left them all—and went off into the woods, to be alone until the time came when he might mount his horse and ride over to put his fate to the touch. He was as careful as ever not to interfere with the morning hours that were tabooed to him of old; but waiting was very hard work when he knew that she was so near, and the time so ...
— Wives and Daughters • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com