Mount | Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Mount, n.

noun

n. [Fr. & Pr. mont, A-S. mont, munt, It., Sp., & Pg. monte, Lat. mons, montis.]

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 Sinai; Mount Holyoke; otherwise chiefly in poetry.
A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.

Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi. 6.

A bank or fund of money. [Obs.] Bacon.
Paper or card-board on which a drawing is placed. Fairholt.
(Mil.) The means or opportunity for mounting, especially, a horse, and the equipments necessary for a mounted horseman.

Mount of piety. See Mont-de-piété.

Mount, v. i.

verbintransitive

[imp. & p. p. MOUNTED; p. pr. & vb. n. MOUNTING.] [Fr. monter, Pr. & Sp. montar, It. montare, from Lat. mons, montis, mountain.]

Sense 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.” Jer. ii. 53.

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.

Sense 2. To get on horseback; to bestride an animal; to leap upon any thing. “He cried, oh! and mounted.” Shak.

And there was mounting in hot haste. Byron.

Sense 3. To attain in value; to be summed up; to amount; to count up.

Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. Pope.

Mount, v. t.

verbtransitive

Sense 1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

Shall we mount again the rural throne? Dryden.

Sense 2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or any thing that one bestrides or sits upon; to bestride.

Sense 3. Hence, to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. “To mount the Trojan troop.” Dryden.

Sense 4. Hence, to put upon any thing that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; hence, to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword-blade by adding the hilt and scabbard, &c.

Sense 5. To raise aloft; to lift on high.

What power is it which mounts my love so high? Shak.

☞ A ship or fort is said to mount cannon, when they are arranged for use in or about it.

To mount guard (Mil.), to take the station, and do the duty, of a sentinel.