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Mount
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v.) A horse.
(2):
(n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; - often with up.
(3):
(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
(4):
(n.) To attain in value; to amount.
(5):
(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
(6):
(v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
(7):
(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.
(8):
(v.) A bank; a fund.
(9):
(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.
(10):
(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
(11):
(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
(12):
(v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
(13):
(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
(14):
(v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
(15):
(n.) 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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mount'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/m/mount.html. 1828.
