mount
A hill or mountain.
(palmistry) Any of seven fleshy prominences in the palm of the hand, taken to represent the influences of various heavenly bodies.
(obsolete) A bulwark for offence or defence; a mound.
(obsolete) A bank; a fund.
(heraldry) A green hillock in the base of a shield.
An animal, usually a horse, used to ride on.
(figurative) A car, bicycle, or motorcycle used for racing.
A mounting; an object on which another object is mounted.
(obsolete) A rider in a cavalry unit or division.
A step or block to assist in mounting a horse.
A signal for mounting a horse.
(martial arts) A dominant ground grappling position, where one combatant sits on the other combatants torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head.
(gymnastics) The act of getting onto the apparatus.
To get upon; to ascend; to climb.
To place oneself on (a horse, a bicycle, etc.); to bestride.
To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding.
(obsolete) To cause (something) to rise or ascend; to drive up; to raise; to elevate; to lift up.
(martial arts) To sit on a combatant's torso with the face pointing towards the opponent's head; to assume the mount position in ground grappling.
(rare) To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend.
I was at the Mathematical School, where the Master taught his Pupils after a Method scarce imaginable to us in Europe. The Proposition and Demonstration were fairly written on a thin Wafer, with Ink composed of a Cephalick Tincture. This the Student was to swallow upon a fasting Stomach, and for three days following eat nothing but Bread and Water. As the Wafer digested, the Tincture mounted to his Brain, bearing the Proposition along with it.
Thy spirit ere our fatal loss / Did ever rise from high to higher; / As mounts the heavenward altar-fire, / As flies the lighter thro’ the gross.
To attach (an object) to a support, backing, framework etc.
He spends his days flitting through the woods with his shot-gun and his butterfly-net, and his evenings in mounting the many specimens he has acquired.
(computing) To attach (a drive or device) to the file system in order to make it available to the operating system.
To increase in quantity or intensity.
(obsolete) To attain in value; to amount (to).
To get on top of (another) for the purpose of copulation.
When God presented Lilith to Adam, Adam was overjoyed and enthusiastically set her on the ground and tried to mount her after the fashion of the animals; but Lilith protested and said: "Why should I be on the bottom and you on the top?"
To have or begin sexual intercourse with someone.
To begin (a campaign, military assault, etc.); to launch.
(archaic) To deploy (cannon) for use.
To prepare and arrange the scenery, furniture, etc. for use in (a play or production).
(cooking) To incorporate fat, especially butter, into (a dish, especially a sauce to finish it).
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