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Mount

noun

A lightweight horse kept for riding only. Synonyms: riding horse, saddle horse.

The act of climbing something. Synonym: climb.

A land mass that projects well above its surroundings; higher than a hill. Synonym: mountain.

A mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place. Synonym: setting.

Something forming a back that is added for strengthening. Synonym: backing.

verb

(past & past part. mounted; pres. part. mounting)

Attach to a support.

Go up or advance. Synonyms: climb, rise, wax.

Fix onto a backing, setting, or support.

Put up or launch.

Get up on the back of. Synonyms: bestride, climb on, get on, hop on, jump on, mount up.

Go upward with gradual or continuous progress. Synonyms: climb, climb up, go up.

Prepare and supply with the necessary equipment for execution or performance. Synonym: put on. "Mount an attack" , "Mount a play"

Copulate with. Synonym: ride.

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"Mount" Quotes from Famous Books

... talismans that render all things possible to an earnest Christian; and it has been truly said 'We mount to heaven mostly on the ruins of our cherished schemes, finding ...

— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... the wandering in the wilderness. Their arrival at Kadesh described in the twentieth chapter would seem, then, to have been in the first month of the third year. In the twenty-second verse of this chapter the camp moves on to Mount Hor, and Aaron dies there. There is no note of any interval of time whatever; yet we are told in the thirty-third chapter of this book that Aaron died in the fortieth year of the wandering. Here is a skip of thirty-eight years in the history, without an indication of anything ...

— Who Wrote the Bible? • Washington Gladden

... blood mount to her cheeks as she caught Gavin's glance. She had never mentioned her flowers to him, and always felt ...

— In Orchard Glen • Marian Keith

... velocities of the stars are higher and higher as we pass from the helium stars, through the hydrogen and solar stars, up to the red stars. The average velocities of the brighter stars of the different spectral classes, as determined with the D. O. Mills spectrographs at Mount Hamilton and in Chile, are as in the ...

— Popular Science Monthly Volume 86

... drives the spear about eight feet into his abdomen, and withdraws it immediately. Should he be successful in his stab, he remounts his horse and flies, or does his best to escape on foot, should he not have time to mount, as the elephant generally turns to pursue him. His comrade immediately turns his horse, and, dashing at the elephant, in his turn dismounts, and drives his lance deep ...

— The Albert N'Yanza, Great Basin of the Nile • Sir Samuel White Baker

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