MOUNT, n. [L. mons, literally a heap or an elevation.]

1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land. Mount is used for an eminence or elevation of earth, indefinite highth or size, and may be a hillock, hill or mountain. We apply it to Mount Blanc, in Switzerland, to Mount Tom and Mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, and it is applied Scripture to the small hillocks on which sacrifice was offered, as well as to Mount Sinai. Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount or heap of stones raised for a witness between him and Laban. Gen. xxxi.
2. A mound; a bulwark for offense or defense. Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi.
3. Formerly, a bank or fund of money. [Obs.] Bacon.

1. To rise on high; to ascend; with or without up. Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? Job xxxix. The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.
2. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to be built to a great altitude. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li.
3. To get on horseback. Shak.
4. To leap upon any animal.
5. To amount; to rise in value. Bring them these blessings to a strict account, / Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. Pope.

1. To raise aloft; to lift on high. What power is it which mounts my love so high? Shak.
2. To ascend; to climb; to get upon an elevated place; as, to mount a throne.
3. To place one's self on horseback; as, to mount a horse.
4. To furnish with horses; as, to mount a troop. The dragoons were well mounted.
5. To put on or cover with something; to embellish wit ornaments; as, to mount a sword.
6. To carry; to be furnished with; as, a ship of the line mounts seventy-four guns; a fort mounts a hundred cannon.
7. To raise and place on a carriage; as, to mount a cannon. To mount guard, to take the station and do the duty of a sentinel.

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. 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. li. 53.

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

3. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
   
   

   Shall we mount again the rural throne? Dryden.

4. That upon which a person or thing is mounted
   
   
   , as: (a)
5. 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.
6. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
   
   
   [Obs.]

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

7. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
8. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
9. A bank; a fund.
   
   

   Mount of piety. See Mont de piété.

10. To attain in value; to amount.
    
    

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

11. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.
    
    
    "To mount the Trojan troop." Dryden.
12. 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.
13. To raise aloft; to lift on high.
    
    

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

    * 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.