(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.
(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
(v.) A bank; a fund.
(n.) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to
tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold;
especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
(n.) To attain in value; to amount.
(v. t.) To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or
anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
(v. t.) To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with
animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
(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.
(v. t.) To raise aloft; to lift on high.
(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted
(v.) A horse.
(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or
the like is mounted; a mounting.
