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† ˈmounture Obs.
[a. OF. monteure (mod.F. monture), f. monte-r to mount.]
1. A horse (or other animal) for riding.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1691 Miry was þe mornyng, his mounture he askes. c1420Anturs of Arth. 555 (Douce MS.), I mourne for no monture, for I may gete mare. 1481Caxton Godeffroy xc. 141 More hurte in theyr mounture than alle the other of thoost. 1579–80North Plutarch, Alexander (1657) 584 Porus..being upon an Elephants backe he wanted nothing in height and bignesse to be proportionable for his mounture. 1600Fairfax Tasso xvii. xxviii, An Elephant this furious Giant bore, He fierce as fire, his mounture swift as winde.
2. a. An erection to mount upon. b. A mound or hillock.
c1400Mandeville (1839) xx. 217 In the myddes of this Palays is the Mountour [L. ascensorium, F. mountaynette] for the grete Cane, that is alle wrought of Gold and of precyous Stones and grete Perles. 1614Raleigh Hist. World i. (1634) 89 There were removed divers old heapes and mountures of ground.
3. = mounting vbl. n. 2.
1489Caxton Faytes of A. i. 17 Be he habylled and arrayed rychely in harnoys and mountures. 1575Gascoigne Posies, Weeds 183 The brauest peece for breech and bore, that euer yet was bought: The mounture so well made.
4. = elevation 10.
1613T. Milles tr. Mexia's Treas. Anc. & Mod. T. 56 The Barbacanes or Subburbes, which were of as high mounture and strength, as the walles of the City.
5. Mil. The angle at which a gun is elevated.
1628R. Norton Gunner 60 The proportion of powder, fitting each sort of Shot and Mounture. 1644Nye Gunnery ii. (1647) 8 The next Shot was at five Degrees Randon, at which mounture shee conveyed 416 paces. 1692Capt. Smith's Seaman's Gram. ii. xxvi. 138 If a Piece carries her Shot, at 16 deg. of Mounture 1074 Paces, the Horizontal Rainge of that Peece will be found to be 374 Paces.
6. ? = harness n. 6.
1799G. Smith Laboratory II. 50 These are called the tail of the mounture; and from each of these packthreads, just by the side of the loom, are fastened other packthreads. |