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mount

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1. mount - Noun

2. mount - Verb

4. Mount - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.

A bank; a fund.

To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

To attain in value; to amount.

To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.

To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.

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.

To raise aloft; to lift on high.

That upon which a person or thing is mounted

A horse.

The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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it was a difficult climb to the top Source: Internet

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