Mount \Mount\, n. [From {Mount}, v.] That upon which a person or thing is mounted, especially: (a) A horse.
She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount. --G. Eliot. (b) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.
Mount \Mount\, v. t. 1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb; as, to mount the pulpit and deliver a sermon.
Shall we mount again the rural throne? --Dryden.
2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.
3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. ``To mount the Trojan troop.'' --Dryden.
4. 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.; as, to mount a picture or diploma in a frame
5. To raise aloft; to lift on high.
What power is it which mounts my love so high? --Shak.
Note: 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.
Mount \Mount\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mounted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mounting}.] [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See {Mount}, n. (above).] 1. 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.
2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
3. To attain in value; to amount.
Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. --Pope.
Mount \Mount\ (mount), n. [OE. munt, mont, mount, AS. munt, fr. L. mons, montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. Cf. {Mount}, v., {Mountain}, {Mont}, {Monte}, {Montem}.] 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. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.]
Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. --Jer. vi. 6.
3. [See {Mont de pi['e]t['e]}.] A bank; a fund.
4. (Palmistry) 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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
{Mount of piety}. See {Mont de pi['e]t['e]}.
But potential losses mount when the cost of war coverage, and the lost opportunities to plug midseason replacements, are added in.
If the drug cartels mount a campaign "to have blood running in the streets of America, I can't give you assurances we would be in a position to pre-empt it," conceded Oliver B. Revell, investigations chief for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Ms. Knight and other National Park Service employees fought back by working throughout the winter to mount a fire exhibit here.
It is hardly surprising that Mr Patten will mount as presidential a campaign as is possible in Britain. Presidential but not regal.
Japan's labor unions mount a so-called spring offensive each April in a bid to improve annual contracts, and the rank and file tend to follow patterns set by the largest companies.
And unrest would likely mount.
The guerrillas, who call themselves nationalists opposing a Marxist-based government, roam Mozambique's 10 provinces and mount frequent raids into Zimbabwe with virtual impunity.
As the criticisms mount, the worst happens.
Even after the opt-out decision has been made, some Labor councils mount retaliation campaigns.
Hill has changed them." Despite the anger that began to mount, Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell of Maine at first held fast to the notion that Senate rules required a vote on the Thomas nomination be held last night.
In Washington, American officials said it would be difficult for the United States to mount an effective military response anytime soon.
But logic and concerns for civil rights and liberties may fall by the wayside and a demand for quarantine may arise as deaths from AIDS mount.
They are too preoccupied with their own problems.' A situation would arise in which the finance industry supervisors and the National Bank had to mount a rescue action.
The pressure on UAL continued to mount yesterday amid reports that other potential bidders for the travel company were buying its stock.
Nevertheless, if the DOT's latest steps come to be seen as ineffectual, pressure may mount for tougher actions.
But junk bonds also were used by several flamboyant corporate raiders to mount hostile takeovers that drew fire from legislators and big business as a threat to corporate America.
One who could mount a state-by-state campaign for a federal line-item veto.
Reducing the 10-day period in which a company can acquire a block of another company's stock without disclosing whether it intends to mount a takeover.
A preliminary report by the commission said the fire at the Vandellos I plant on the Mediterranean coast probably began when excessive shaft vibration caused failure of a mount holding one of the two turbine generators.
The advance information, Humphrey charges, enabled the group to mount campaigns against individuals even before their candidates were nominated.
President Bush's order to send American troops into combat in Panama, initially greeted with broad support in Congress, could backfire politically if casualties continue to mount and the United States becomes bogged down there.
A survivor was quoted as saying the rebels used armor-plated bulldozers to mount the assault.
Such an approval, however, doesn't necessarily mean the Hafts will mount a takeover attempt for Kroger, or even that they will buy Kroger stock.
Venezia's mount broke his right foreleg going down the backstretch of a 1 1-16 mile allowance race.
It would invite in global securities firms and mount a challenge to the even sleepier and more inward-looking bourses of continental Europe.
The London stock market took the opportunity of yesterday's holiday closure in Frankfurt to mount a determined rally after its prolonged run of weak trading sessions.
Further digging led to the decision to mount the largest-ever raid on a company's offices. In a dawn swoop on June 26 1991, 135 revenue investigators and police officers raided 13 locations.
"Starlight Express," a high-tech rollerskating spectacle that cost $8 million to mount on Broadway, is still running in London and New York despite lots of negative notices.
The mergers and acquisitions market has been a saving grace for the industry, but uncertainties are beginning to mount even there.
The NAACP has 1,800 local branches that mount legal challenges and lobby for equal opportunity for blacks.