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mountn.1

Brit. /maʊnt/, U.S. /maʊnt/
Forms: Old English muntt (rare), Old English mvnt (rare), Old English–Middle English munt, Middle English montt, Middle English movnt, Middle English mownte, Middle English munnt ( Ormulum), Middle English munte, Middle English 1600s mownt, Middle English–1500s mounte, Middle English–1600s monte, Middle English–1700s mont, Middle English– mount, 1500s monnt, 1500s monnte; Scottish pre-1700 mont, pre-1700 monte, pre-1700 mounte, pre-1700 mownt, pre-1700 1700s– mount, pre-1700 1700s– munt, 1800s m'unt.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin mont-, mōns; French munt, mont.
Etymology: In early use < classical Latin mont-, mōns mountain, hill, towering heap or mass; subsequently reinforced by Anglo-Norman munt, mund, mont, mount and Old French, Middle French, French mont mountain, hill (late 10th cent.), heap (1176), quantity of plaster (late 15th cent.; compare sense 6 s.v.) < classical Latin mont-, mōns. It is uncertain to what extent the Middle English word shows continuity with the Old English word; the modern form is developed from Anglo-Norman mount with lengthened vowel. Compare Portuguese monte (mid 10th cent.), Spanish monte (12th cent.), Italian monte (a1292).The classical Latin word belongs to a group of cognate words referring to projection, jutting, and threatening: see note s.v. prominent adj. Its cognates in other Indo-European languages include (with different suffix) Welsh mynydd mountain: see mane n.1 On the possible occurrence of a plural form mouns after Anglo-Norman and Old French see mouns n. In sense 7 after Italian monte (1470 in this sense; short for monte di pietà Monte di Pietà n.).
I. A mountain, and related uses.
1.
a. Originally: a mountain, a high hill. Later also: a more or less conical hill of moderate height rising from a plain; a hillock. Now chiefly poetic or in proper names of mountains or hills, as Mount Vesuvius, Mount Everest, the Mount of Olives, St Michael's Mount, etc.When used in proper names commonly abbreviated Mt.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > hill or mountain > [noun]
mounteOE
hillc1000
fella1400
month1477
range1601
morro1826
jebel1844
eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) iv. viii. 99 Siþþan he [sc. Hannibal] gefor ofer þa monegan þeoda, oþ he com to Alpis þæm muntum.
OE Vercelli Homilies (1992) x. 209 Swylce eac be ðam micelum muntum & dunum, þa þe hyhst standaþ & goriað ofer ealne middangeard.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) v. 1 Þa se hælend geseh þa menigu, he astah on þone munt.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2862 Ure laffdiȝ marȝe wass. Þreo moneþþ i þe munntess. Wiþþ hire meȝhe elysabæþ.
a1225 ( Ælfric's Homily In Die Sancto Pentecosten (Lamb. 487) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 87 Uppon ane dune þat is þe mont of synai.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2853 To mount synai forð he nam.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 168v By cause of þe mounte, þis citee was moste stronge and moost harde to wynne.
c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 5117 Quat suld we moue in-to þe montts?
1478 W. Worcester Itineraries 14 Mount Mychell vltra Excestre 100 miliaria.
a1500 (?c1378) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 457 Ȝif þe pope speke bi þe contrarie, as a mount haþ his name of mouyng [etc.].
1526 Pylgrimage of Perfection (de Worde) f. 1v The sermon that he made in the mount.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 24v The mont [sc. Caucasus] with snaw was all sa condensat.
1633 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1870) V. 98/1 The landis of Merkinshe with the comoun pasturage..callit the Burghauch lyand betuix the mont and the water.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur iii. 67 The lab'ring Mounts Belch drossy Vomit out.
1741 Countess of Pomfret in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) III. 265 A lake; and in the midst of it a green mount, on which stood a small castle.
1806 P. Gass Jrnl. 15 June (1807) 225 We ascended a high mount with a good deal of difficulty, as the path was very slippery.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 75 Ye mounts Where I climb to 'scape my fellow.
1941 F. H. Lahee Field Geol. (ed. 4) xi. 360 A similar residual type in arid regions is the island mountain, or island mount.
1989 Independent 13 Feb. 5 Whichever mount was once ancient Ictis on the edge of the known world, the locals were a good lot according to classical sources.
2006 O. Pearson Albania as Dictatorship & Democracy xii. 527 The patriarchal home of the Kastrati clan, at the foot of the mount of Rozafat Castle, was no longer to be seen.
b. figurative and in extended use.
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OE Seasons for Fasting (transcript of damaged MS) 135 We sint on westene wuldres blisse on þæm ænete ealra gefeana; nu is helpes tid, halig dryhten, hu we munt þinne mærne gestygan.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 79 (MED) Hlauerd..hwa mai him resten upe ðin haliȝe munte of heueneriches.
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 243 Þe guode religious..guo..alhuet he comþ to þe mont ioye, þet is, to þe helle of blisse eurelestinde.
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 204 (MED) Alle þo þat lyuen wrecchidly setten her tre in þe mount of pryde.
1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 267 It is thought to aduaunce the poore patients to the mount of felicitie.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge iv. iii. sig. H I haue a mount of mischiefe clogs my soule, As waightie as the high-nol'd Appenine.
1683 J. Mason Spiritual Songs 100 I will Betake Me to the Mount of Myrrh And to the Incense-Hill.
1720 J. Mottley Imperial Captives iv. 45 You that are set above the rest of Men, On a fair Mount of rich encircl'ing Honours.
1745 E. Young Complaint: Night the Eighth 54 Behold him seated on a Mount serene, Above the Fogs of Sense.
1801 G. Dyer Poems 223 He pinnacles, in thought, the mount of fame.
1894 M. Pemberton Sea Wolves vii A low mount of black cloud upon the horizon.
1994 C. H. Sisson What & Who 21 On the purgatorial mount Where he slipped so often on his way to his Maker.
c. A pageant cart representing a mountain. Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > stage > [noun] > movable or temporary > type of
mount1501
1501 in G. Wickham Early Eng. Stages (1959) I. vi. 209 Incontynent cam in the thirde pagent, in liknes of a great hill..in whom were enclosid viii goodly Knights... They alited from the seid mount..and hastely spede them to the rehersed castell.
1580 in P. Cunningham Revels at Court (1842) 157 Hoopes to make a Mounte iijs.
1580 in P. Cunningham Revels at Court (1842) 162 The payntinge of vij Cities, one villadge,..and a mount for Christmas iij Holidaies.
d. Heraldry. A representation of a hillock.Usually coloured vert (as turf) and borne in the base of the escutcheon, but occasionally charged upon an ordinary or forming part of a crest.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > other heraldic representations > [noun] > hill
mount1610
mountain1610
hill?1828
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xiv. 129 He beareth Argent on a Mount Proper, a Stagge Couchant, Gules.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 479/2 The second [figure] is a Mountain, or Mount Trebble mounted, or a Hill of three ascents.
?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Eee2v/1 Mount grieced, or in degrees, mounts cut in the form of steps. Mount mounted, also called a shapournet shapourned, mounted, or crested, and a mount with a hill upon it.
1871 Burke's Peerage 867/1 A fess, arg., charged with a mount.
1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 256/1 (caption) Or, on a mount a pear-tree vert fructed proper.
1990 K. Taplin By Harbour Wall 63 Argent on a Mount in Base Vert A hurst of Oak trees fructed proper.
2. spec. Usually with the. Originally (in singular): the Alps, considered as a massif. Later (in plural): the Alps. Obsolete. Cf. mouns n.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > Alps
AlpseOE
mountOE
mounsc1325
OE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Tiber. B.iv) anno 887 To Langbeardna lande & to þam landum on þa healfe muntes.
lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1129 Mid him held se Kasere of Sexlande & se kyng of France & se kyng Heanri of Engleland, & ealle þa be þis half þa muntes.
a1300 ( Declaration of Indulgences, Crediton, Devon in Britannica: M. Förster zum Sechzigsten Geburtstage (1929) 115 Hoþer archebischopes and bissopes on þisser side þas mountes on walelondes.
?a1425 (a1325) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Digby) (1887) 8071 He sende prechors þoru al cristendom, him sulf on þis half þe mount [c1325 Calig. mouns] & into france com.
c1440 (?a1400) Morte Arthure 307 (MED) The burelyche beryn of Bretayne þe lyttyll Counsayles sir Arthure..To ansuere þe alyenes wyth austeren wordes, To entyce the emperour to take ouere the mounttes.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. 11759 (MED) Passe Moungu in to þe mountz [?a1400 Petyt mouns].
3. Fortification.
a. A substantial defensive or protective work of earth or other material, erected to resist an attack or to advance an assault. Now historical.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > earthwork or rampart > [noun]
wallc900
banka1387
aggera1398
trench1445
braye1512
mantle-walla1522
werewalla1525
rampire1548
rampart1550
mound1558
mount1558
argin1589
vallie1602
earthwork1633
circumvallation1645
vallation1664
subtrench1669
epaulement1687
enceinte1708
ring1780
vallum1803
main-work1833
1558 J. Highfield in Ld. Hardwicke State Papers (1778) I. 115 Thereupon there were two mounts repaired for the better defence.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 465 As sone as the king was come he cast a depe trench with a high mount to prohibite them within the towne to haue any egresse.
1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxvi. xlv. 620 As for fabricks and mounts to be raised and planted against it [i.e. the City], they..would aske some long time.
1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xxix. 3 I..will lay siege against thee with a mount, and I will raise forts against thee. View more context for this quotation
1699 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ II. iii. x. 106 Their Mounts they let fall to the Ground by Undermining the Foundations.
1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) II. 726/2 He besieged that city seven months, during which time he erected vast mounts of earth..and invested it.
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 410 The mount, or heaped-up earth, by which the besiegers fought on a level with the besieged.
1926 Archæologia Cambrensis 81 223 The earthen mounds of two of the earlier ‘motte’ castles—moated mounts which once had wooden towers upon their summits.
b. = cavalier n. 4. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > castle or fortified building > [noun] > tower or watch-tower
towerc897
bastillec1400
bastillion1525
cavalier1562
commander1572
torrion1572
mount1590
sentinel1600
sentry1611
cat1628
torne1637
rondel1686
rounder1774
Martello tower1803
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons Ded. *** iij The Caueleeres (by vs called Mounts).
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 348 It standeth well also for the conquest of Greece, bordering upon it, as it were a strong mount or Cavallier.
1701 A. Boyer Draughts Fortified Towns 2 A Cavalier or Mount, is a great Body of Earth, rais'd on the Terraplain.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 103 A Battery of six Pieces of Cannon..besides three small Mounts..which had each of them two Pieces upon them.
c. North American. A kind of watchtower. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place
garret1340
tooting-towera1382
watch-house1482
watchtower1544
watch-stand1610
beacon1611
mount1612
belfry1631
lookout1662
mirador1672
lookout tower1748
toot1770
watch point1893
observation post1909
lookout station1928
1612 N. Powell & A. Todkill in W. Symonds Proc. Eng. Colonie Virginia 38 in J. Smith Map of Virginia They conducted us to their pallizadoed towne, mantelled with the barkes of trees, with Scaffolds like mounts, brested about with Barks very formally.
1724 in J. H. Temple & G. Sheldon Hist. Northfield, Mass. (1875) 202 Self and team to cart mount timber 1 day; and self one day's work at the mount..0 7 0. [Note, The mounts were square towers, from 14 to 20 feet high..; were made of heavy timbers..with the upper story..fitted up for a sentry.]
4.
a. An artificial mound or heap of earth, stones, etc.; (spec.) a raised piece of ground, or walk, in a garden (now historical).
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > rising ground or eminence > [noun]
link931
rise1240
motea1300
bentc1405
mote-hill1475
territory1477
height1487
rising1548
raising1572
linch1591
mount1591
swelling1630
up1637
vertex1641
advance1655
ascendant1655
eminency1662
ascent1663
eminence1670
swell1764
elevation1799
embreastment1799
upwith1819
lift1825
salita1910
turtle-back1913
upwarp1917
upslope1920
whaleback1928
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > walk
alleyc1405
alurea1450
mount1591
vista1671
crazy paving1923
tapis vert1960
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > garden > division or part of garden > [noun] > artificial or ornamental mound or bank
mount1591
mound-work1718
curb1881
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > path or place for walking > [noun] > foot(-)path > in a garden or pleasure-ground > raised
mount1591
1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K4 A little mount, of greene turffs edifide.
1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. K4v He..reard a mount of earth.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 55 In diuers corners of your Orchard Mounts of stone, or wood curiously wrought.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 278 At the End of both the Side Grounds, I would haue a Mount of some Pretty Height..to looke abroad into the Fields.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures xxxv. 140 Behind their houses..were two great Mounts of dead mens bones.
1743 E. L. Pinckney Letterbk. in C. R. Lounsbury Illustr. Gloss. Early Southern Archit. & Landscape (1994) 236 A large fish pond with a mount rising out of the middle—the top of which is level with the dwelling house and upon it is a roman temple.
1759 S. Johnson Idler 8 Sept. 281 Another [of his friends] has been for three years digging canals and raising mounts.
1791 W. Bartram Trav. N. & S. Carolina 517 The nearest kindred or friends..lastly, cover all over with earth, which raises a conical hill or mount.
1800 J. Bentham Mem. & Corr. in Wks. (1843) X. 347 It will form a mount in my garden.
1813 J. C. Hobhouse Journey (ed. 2) 716 Barrows—Short Account of those ancient Mounts.
1890 Dict. National Biogr. XXIV. 65/1 He died..of a wound received by a knife in his pocket in a fall from the mount in his garden at Wigan.
1986 Oxf. Compan. Gardens 382/2 As a garden feature the mount seems to have survived into the 18th c.
b. In extended use. Obsolete.
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1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 302 Their beloved Priapus is imperiously inthroniz'd upon a brazen Mount.
1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 27 She is a nest of Water Ratts, a mount of Pismires, the Caterpiller Cankar and Cobwebbs that infects the Olive.
1685 J. Dryden tr. Horace Odes i. ix, in Sylvæ sig. I8v Behold yon mountain's hoary height, Made higher with new mounts of snow.
II. Extended uses.
5. Palmistry. Any of various fleshy prominences on the palm of the hand regarded as signifying the degree of influence exercised by a particular planet. Cf. mount of Venus n. 2, also mons n. 1.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > palmistry > [noun] > fleshy prominence
mounta1440
monsa1637
a1440 Bk. Palmistry (Digby Rolls 4) 18 (MED) Yff ther be any lynes that begynne at the rote of the lytill fyngur and passe the mownt of the same fyngur towardus the mownt of the hand, it toknyth shameles lyers, theves.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 101 With the Thumbe bended in, and reaching to the mount of Mercurie.
1653 R. Saunders Physiognomie i. 63 At the root of each finger there is a little rising, the which we call the mounts of the Planets.
1805 F. Moore Womb of Futurity 23 The mount or ball of the thumb, bears a peculiar analogy to the events of a person's life.
1867 A. R. Craig Bk. of Hand xxiii. 189 If a line sets out from the head line, and rises straight to the mount of Jupiter, crosses it and cuts the roots of the forefinger, it is excessive pride.
1925 N. Jaquin Sci. Palmistry v. 41 The mounts of the hand are those fleshy pads found at the base of the fingers.
1994 Kindred Spirit Autumn 18/1 Mounts on the palm are reservoirs of energy, fire signs indicating activity.
6. A unit of weight formerly used for plaster of Paris, equal to 30 hundredweight (approx. 1524 kg). Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement by weighing > [noun] > unit or denomination of weight > units for other specific commodities
mount1532
pint1599
stand1675
stand1729
mark1731
draught1859
tex1953
1532 in Lett. & Papers Henry VIII (1965) V. 446 [Plaster of Paris..a] mount [containing 30 cwt.].
1604 Rates Marchandizes sig. G2 Plaister of Parris the mount cont. xxx.C.waight xx.s.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Mount of Plaister of Paris, the Quantity of Three thousand Pound-Weight.
1820 2nd Rep. Comm. Weights & Meas. App. A. 24 in Rep. Comm. 7 496 Mount, of plaster of Paris, 3000 weight.
7. A bank. Cf. Mount of Piety n. Now historical.
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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > banking > [noun] > bank
bank1482
banker's shop1565
Lombard1609
mount1622
money banka1628
cantore1673
banking housec1770
jug1845
1622 F. Bacon Let. to Bp. Andrews in Misc. Wks. (1629) 85 To put forth that poore Talent..that God hath giuen me..to Banks or Mounts of Perpetuity, which will not breake.
1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 326 A system which seems to have had it's original in the state of Florence, A.D. 1344: which government then owed about 60,000 l. sterling: and, being unable to pay it, formed the principal into an aggregate sum, called metaphorically a mount or bank, the shares whereof were transferrable like our stocks, with interest at 5 per cent.
1937 E. Pound Fifth Decad Cantos xlii. 9 That the same Mount cd lend on good Mallevadoria (That is security).

Compounds

mount-egg n. Obsolete dross separated from tin during smelting.
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1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II. (at cited word) After Tin from the burnt Ore is melted down and remelted, there will sometimes remain a different Slugg in the bottom of the Float, this they call Mount-Egg.
mount foot n. Obsolete the foot of a mountain.
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a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) x. xvi. f. 392v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mont Kenneth..convoyit his cumpany be ane lang lauborios way behind the mont fute.
mount-moving adj. Obsolete that moves mountains.
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1647 H. More Philos. Poems 331 Deep-searching wit, mount-moving might Are nought compar'd to that good spright.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mountn.2

Brit. /maʊnt/, U.S. /maʊnt/
Forms: late Middle English mounte, late Middle English– mount.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion; probably partly modelled on a French lexical item. Etymon: mount v.
Etymology: < mount v.; in several senses probably after Old French, Middle French, French monte sum, value (early 12th cent.), sexual union (late 12th cent.), action of climbing on to a racehorse (1872) < monter mount v. With sense 5 compare French monture (1680 in this sense; see mounture n.). Compare Spanish monta sum, intrinsic worth, total value (1734, also in sense ‘copulation (of horses)’; 1611 in sense ‘importance’), Italian monta copulation (of animals), breeding (1597).
I. Senses relating to rising.
1. = amount n. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > [noun]
metc1225
mountancec1330
amountancec1380
mountenancec1385
quantityc1392
quantitya1398
substance1435
mountenessea1450
mountc1475
number1477
feck1488
quantum1602
valour1631
amount1668
amt.1744
volume1882
c1475 (c1420) J. Page Siege of Rouen (Egerton) (1876) 15 There wolde be schot..A hundryd govnnys..With[in] the mount of ij halfe hourys.
1651 ‘A. B.’ tr. L. Lessius Sir Walter Rawleigh's Ghost 218 They again enjoying a long peace and increasing the mount of their former sins,..they were once more cast into the hands of Philistins.
2.
a. An act of rising; (spec. of a bird) †a rising from the ground (obsolete). Also: an act of raising something; (spec. of a gun) †an elevation (obsolete). Also figurative. Now rare.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > [noun]
upgang971
styingc1200
astyingc1220
upstyinga1300
upcomingc1330
risinga1398
upraisingc1400
mounting1440
toweringc1440
lift1470
ascence1481
ascending1482
mount1486
upwith?1507
surrection1509
upgoing1555
rise1573
arise1590
ascension1598
uprest1602
transcendencea1616
ascent1616
mounture1631
resultancea1634
uprise1690
anabasis1706
upshift1839
the world > animals > birds > flight > [noun] > rising from ground
sourcec1384
at souse1486
mount1486
launch1835–6
dread1965
1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. djv She toke it at the mounte or at the souce.
?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxx. sig. Iivv Making seueral angles proportionally to the seueral mounts of the peece.
1596 J. Harington New Disc. Aiax sig. D4 Do you not sometime..talk..of putting a heron to the mount?
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. H3v Now capring wits, Rise to your highest mount.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 224 The first..at two or three mounts and active leaps spear-high, fetches down the piece of meat.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 51 After another slight descent, and then a gradual mount, the top of Thornthwaite Crag is gained.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The spread and mount of his fame. J. L. Davis.
b. Military. to sound a mount: to give a trumpet signal for mounting. Obsolete.
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1660 J. Howell Lex. Tetraglotton Dict. To sound a mount, suonar l'insella, od il mettisella.
c. An act of climbing on to a horse, a bicycle, etc.; the way in which this is done.
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society > travel > transport > cycling > [noun] > manner of mounting or dismounting
dismount1886
mount1891
1891 Ld. Albemarle & G. L. Hillier Cycling (ed. 3) viii. 254 This mount, when once perfectly acquired, is deliberate and graceful.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The circus rider leaped to the horse's back in a flying mount.
d. An act of copulation; (Zoology) an act of copulation in which the male climbs on to the female.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual intercourse > an act of
swivec1560
fall1594
sleep1612
fuck1663
merry bout1780
stroke1785
screw?c1845
charver1846
fuckeea1866
sex act1888
frigc1890
grind1893
mount1896
poke1902
tumble1903
screwing1904
ride1905
roll1910
trick1926
lay1932
jump1934
bang1937
knock1937
shag1937
a roll in the hay1945
boff1956
naughty1959
root1961
shtup1964
home run1967
seeing to1970
legover1975
bonk1978
zatch1980
boink1989
1896 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang IV. 362/1 Mount, an act of coition.
c1930 Confessions of Virtuous Wife i. 11 Not having had a mount for three days (you had been saving it all for Clementine) how I lay and throbbed with anticipation as I expected you.
1937 E. Partridge Dict. Slang 226/2 Do a grind, a mount, to have sexual intercourse (of men).
1970 Nature 12 Dec. 1107/1 In mounts from behind, the mounting cat often had its pelvic region well forward on the back of the mounted cat.
2000 Amer. Jrnl. Primatol. 51 79 Mounts [in the lesser galago] were prolonged..and males copulated repeatedly..with the same partner during a single night.
3.
a. Originally colloquial. A horse, bicycle, etc., on which a person is mounted or which a person rides or drives; a horse, etc., provided for riding.
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the world > animals > domestic animal > [noun] > riding beasts
wervec1175
mounturec1400
steedc1450
mount1856
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding
road horseOE
hackney1299
rouncyc1300
mounturec1400
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Galloway1598
roussin1602
naggon1630
saddle horse1647
sit-horse?1652
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saddle mare1707
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Bucephalus1799
steed-horse1842
mount1856
saddler1888
saddle seat1895
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > riding in > undertaking to ride
mount1856
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 363/1 The jockey..receiving information from the trainer as to the peculiarities of his mount.
1885 Cent. Mag. Mar. 653/1 A good high-bred dromedary is as comfortable a mount as can be desired.
1885 Cyclist 19 Aug. 1088/1 This is easily accounted for by the number of strange [cycle] riders and the changing of mounts from roadsters to racers.
1938 Life 4 Apr. (verso front cover) (advt.) When an outboard racing driver guns his eager, whining mount across the starting line, his hopes are firmly pinned on a few all-important factors in his engine.
1977 Royal Air Force Yearbk. 11/2 The Gnat is also the mount for the Red Arrows..aerobatic team.
1987 Country Living Nov. 164/1 My mount had chunky wheels, broad pedals, wide handlebars with sponge grips, powerful brakes, and a quick-adjust saddle which I was advised to set low for descents.
b. U.S. regional (south-western). A string of horses assigned to a ranch hand for personal use.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [noun] > for riding > group or supply of
remuda1892
mount1903
1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 14 It was my good fortune that morning to get a good mount of horses,—three sorrels, two grays, two coyotes, a black, a brown, and a grulla.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. iii. 53 He kept his own mount of horses, took care of them.
1933 Amer. Speech 8 i. 30/1 Mount, a string of horses, usually eight or ten, assigned by the boss to one man.
1949 Sat. Evening Post (Philadelphia) 23 Apr. 126/4 He used the gray plenty because Chaquaco was the only well-broken horse in his mount.
1966 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 674/2 A man's mount generally consisted of about seven horses, or eight... Some of them had more, but that was the average.
1993 W. Blevins Dict. Amer. West 225/2 Mount, a hand's string, the horses assigned to him from the cavvy.
4. An opportunity for riding, esp. as a jockey. Also: an act of riding.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > [noun] > opportunity of
mount1856
leg up1858
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports 361/1 The jockey..is now expected to ride to orders in most cases, though there are still some who would refuse such a mount.
1882 B. D. W. Ramsay Recoll. Mil. Serv. I. i. 15 [He] had been kind to me..giving me a mount occasionally on one of his numerous stud.
1884 Illustr. London News 1 Nov. 410/2 The custom is to pay at least twenty-five pounds for a mount in the Derby and St. Leger.
1888 Sir C. Russell in Times 26 June 4/4 The regular fees for his [sc. a jockey's] ridings or ‘mounts’.
1992 Today (BNC) Dec. One can only put the sudden drying-up of mounts for champion jockey Peter Scudamore down to whispers about him reaching an age when he's beginning to wonder what's on the other side of the racing fence.
II. Senses relating to support and display.
5. A support in or on which something is set or placed, or to which something is fixed, esp. for the purpose of display.
a. The surface of a fan, usually made of silk, paper, or similar material; (also) the frame or support of wood, ivory, etc., on which a fan is mounted (see also fan-mount n. at fan n.1 Compounds 2).
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the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > hand-held or portable > silk, paper, etc., forming surface
mount1735
the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [noun] > supplying fresh air or ventilation > fan > hand-held or portable > stick(s) on which it is mounted
stake1640
stick1658
mounting1716
mount1735
1735 J. Miller Man of Taste ii. 30 Maria. I adore our new way of building! So delicate... Doro. With windows no larger than the mount of one's fan!
1767 J. Beekman Let. 24 Sept. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 788 30 dozen Brown Stick fans Colloured mounts at 4/. and 4/3.
1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 121 2 fans, French mounts.
1869 Art Jrnl. Mar. 90/3 Perforated cedar, sandal-wood, nacre, ivory—such is the proper mount of an elegant fan.
1878 Art Jrnl. Aug. 173/2 Coryat..mentions some [fans]..consisting of a paper mount pasted on a wooden handle. [Coryat does not use the word.]
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 404/2 In these [Cabriolet fans] the mount is in two parts, the lower and narrower mount being half-way up the stick, the second mount in the usual place at the top of the stick.
1974 N. Armstrong Collector's Hist. Fans 168 Women..carried small fans with mounts of white gauze, silk or net, embroidered with garlands or Neo-classical motifs.
b. An ornamental metal border, edge, or guard for an angle or prominent part of an object, as a piece of furniture, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [noun] > that which supports
staffc1000
hold1042
source1359
legc1380
shorer1393
stabilimenta1398
upholder1398
sustentationa1400
undersetterc1400
bearinga1425
undersettinga1425
suppowellc1430
triclinec1440
sustentaclec1451
supportera1475
sustainerc1475
sustenal1483
stayc1515
buttress1535
underpinning1538
firmament1554
countenance1565
support1570
appuia1573
comfort1577
hypostasis1577
underpropping1586
porter1591
supportation1593
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bearer1607
rest1609
upsetter1628
mountinga1630
sustent1664
underlay1683
holdfast1706
abutment1727
suppeditor1728
mount1739
monture1746
bed1793
appoggiatura1833
bracing1849
bench1850
under-pinner1859
bolster-piece1860
sustainer1873
table mount1923
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > tipping, edging, or mounting
tippingc1325
purflec1400
jagging1502
mounture1575
mountinga1630
mount1739
scallopinga1800
horn-tip1808
1739 Act 12 Geo. II c. 26 §6 Mounts, Screws, or Stoppers to Stone or Glass Bottles or Phials.
1884 Cyclist 13 Feb. 243/1 Salad bowls and servers, with silver mounts.
1969 Canad. Antiques Collector Oct. 27/2 Louis Quinze furniture is lavishly ornamented with ormolu—cast decorations called ‘mounts’ made of bronze, either gilded or lacquered, and attached to the wood by small screws or pins.
1970 G. Savage Dict. Antiques 280/2 The date of manufacture is usually obvious from the style of the mount.
1988 B. Chatwin Utz 51 There were Böttger tankards with silver-gilt mounts.
c. A margin surrounding a picture, etc., a piece of card or other backing to which a drawing, etc., is attached for display. Also: a piece of card cut to form a frame, placed over a picture or used to hold a photographic transparency for ease of handling.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > margin or card surrounding picture
mount1854
overmount1890
1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art Mount,..the paper or card-board upon which a drawing is placed.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 315 The mount or margin intervening between the water-colour painting and its frame is almost invariably white.
1896 Daily News 14 Sept. 2/7 A mount cutter was charged with having stolen..a quantity of cardboard patterns, mounts, &c.
1962 Which? Mar. 68/1 Both sizes normally come back from the processors in cardboard mounts 2 in. square. For greater protection, you can mount the transparencies between sheets of glass.
1983 Drawing (Mitchell Beazley Handbk.) 135 A mount will relate more closely to the drawing if you bring out some of the colours in decorative lines around the bevelled window opening.
1992 Pop. Crafts Mar. 14/4 This comprehensive and informative book presents all aspects of picture framing from cutting the mount and moulding to hanging the finished frame and conserving the image.
d. Chiefly Biology. A prepared specimen or section mounted on a slide for examination under the microscope.
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1879 Bot. Gaz. 4 205 On the same slide I have 3 sections of Peziza floccosa. One is unstained and so transparent that it requires nice manipulation (in the balsam mount) to bring out either asci or spores.
1923 Science 15 June 693/1 Replace the alcohol with xylol and mount in xylol, or if a permanent mount is required mount in balsam.
1966 McGraw-Hill Encycl. Sci. & Technol. (rev. ed.) VIII. 397/1 Semipermanent mounts are made with glycerin, glycerin jelly, or oils.
1991 Acta Neuropathologica 81 487/1 The epi-perineurial sheath was rolled off and spread as a whole mount preparation on an objective slide.
e. Philately. A piece of paper, card, etc., on which a stamp is mounted for display in an album, etc.; (formerly also and now contrasted with) a stamp hinge.
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society > communication > correspondence > postal services > payment for postage > [noun] > postage stamp > mount for display
mount1882
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > hobby > collecting stamps > [noun] > stamp hinge or paper for displaying stamp
mount1882
hinge1883
stamp hinge1905
1882 Stamp News May 35/2 For mounting stamps I always use..the best white gum arabic... This sort is much preferable to the yellow, and brown kinds, which are apt to dirty the stamps or the mount.
1885 E. B. Evans Philatelic Handbk. 400 (advt.) Prepared stamp mounts... Far superior to the old plan of gumming the stamps... They are to be used on the hinge system.
1912 Gloss. Philatelic Terms (Philatelic Congr. Great Brit.) 11 Mount, incorrectly used for the word ‘Hinge’.
1948 J. Betjeman Sel. Poems 100 The stamp collection waits with mounts long dry.
1969 L. N. Williams & M. Williams Techniques Philately iv. 20 Philatelists devised a method of showing up their finest specimens to better effect..by affixing the stamp to a piece of black paper or card—a mount—slightly larger than the stamp itself, so as to provide a dark background.
1999 Stamp Mag. Dec. 12 (advt.) For only £27.00, the Year Book includes a mint set of each of the stamp issues (definitive sheetlet not included), stamp mounts and a protective slip case.
f. A setting for a precious stone or other object.
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1883 A. H. Church Precious Stones 101 Diamond..⅓ in. diam.; claw setting on swing mount... Diamond..bordered with 12 brilliants set in silver, on gold mount.
1989 Grattan Direct Catal. Spring–Summer 922/1 22 ct. gold half sovereign coin set in 9 ct. hallmarked gold mount, complete with 18 in. chain.
g. A base to which a cannon or other gun is attached; a support for a gun or for an attachment to a gun.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > gun carriage > [noun] > base for gun
flask1578
bed1598
bed-bolster1769
mortar-bed1769
sweep1837
swing-bed1842
saddle1848
stool-bed1859
mount1888
1888 Cent. Mag. Oct. 889/1 The carriages and mounts of the guns are made entirely of bronze and steel.
1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms App. B. 138 In artillery, where only single shots are fired, it has been the practice since about 1897 to attach the gun to the mount by a sliding, elastic connection.
1992 Guns Illustr. 289 Under-barrel mount, no gunsmithing. Ejector rod mount. Guide rod mount... Mounts for many shotguns, airguns, military and law enforcement guns also available.
h. Photography. A fitting made to support a lens, esp. one on a camera with interchangeable lenses. Cf. lens mount n. at lens n. Compounds 1a.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > camera > parts and accessories of camera > [noun] > lens > support
mount1888
1888 C. Jones Introd. Sci. & Pract. Photogr. 268 In almost every lens..the mount is more or less in the way. It acts as a diaphragm towards the edges of the plate.
1901 E. Marriage Elem. Photogr. ii. 19 Examples of negative lenses and suitable mounts for rectilinear and anastigmatic lenses are illustrated by figs. 2 to 10.
1963 R. Kingslake Lenses in Photogr. (rev. ed.) viii. 161 In some cine lenses, especially those of short focal length, the deep mount provides an excellent hood automatically.
1997 Photo Answers Mar. 62/1 There's an auto coupling point in the camera mount that's disconnected when the manual mirror lens is attached.
6. A bird, mammal, or other animal preserved with a lifelike appearance by taxidermy or other means.
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the world > animals > zoology > taxidermy > [noun] > stuffing of birds > a stuffed and mounted bird-skin
mount1928
1928 Sci. Monthly May 470 (caption) The stuffed skin of jumbo... The mount is at Tufts College.
1938 Brit. Birds 32 30 The female mount..had a half-spread tail.
1957 J. W. Moyer Pract. Taxidermy v. 34 Tie down the feathers with soft, fine thread or string to hold them in place until the mount is dry.
7. Computing. An act or instance of mounting a storage medium, a file system, etc. Chiefly attributive and in compounds. Cf. mount v. 32.
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1971 Digital Equipm. Users Soc. Fall Symp. 5 Two mount commands are available, one external, when operating in monitor-mode, and the other internal, called via a UUO.
1989 DEC Professional Jan. 63/3 A remote mount command made an entire disk available.
1993 UNIX Rev. Mar. 75/1 Another problem with boot-time mounts is that you must know ahead of time which file systems the user will want to access.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mountn.3

Forms: 1500s mounte.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: mount n.1
Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps an extended use of mount n.1, although compare also mound n.1
Obsolete. rare.
A spherical box.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > spherical
mount1562
1562 New Year's Gifts in J. Nichols Progresses Queen Elizabeth (1823) I. 108 A little rounde mounte of golde to conteyne a pomaunder in it.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2021).

mountv.

Brit. /maʊnt/, U.S. /maʊnt/
Forms: Middle English monte, Middle English monthit (3rd singular present indicative, transmission error), Middle English munt, Middle English munte, Middle English–1500s mownte, Middle English–1600s mont, Middle English–1600s mounte, Middle English– mount, 1500s ymount (past participle, pseudo-archaic), 1600s monnt, 1800s– moont (English regional (north-eastern)); Scottish pre-1700 mont, pre-1700 montt, pre-1700 mvnt, pre-1700 mwnt, pre-1700 1700s– mount, pre-1700 1800s– munt.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French monter.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman monter, mounter, munter and Old French, Middle French, French monter (late 10th cent.: see note below for discussion of senses) < an unattested post-classical Latin verb < classical Latin mont- , mōns mount n.1 Compare Old Occitan montar (11th cent.; Occitan montar ), Spanish montar (1244), Portuguese montar (1245), Catalan muntar (1271), Italian montare (a1292). Compare also amount v.Uses in French include: to get up on to the back of a horse or other animal (late 10th cent.; compare sense 13a), to set on the back of a horse (mid 12th cent.; compare sense 13b), to climb the social ladder, to go up in the world (c1139 in Anglo-Norman; compare sense 1b), to raise the merit or value of a person (late 12th cent.; compare sense 1a), (of a plant) to grow upwards (1578; compare sense 8a), to amount to a total number, price (late 13th cent.; compare sense 20a and 20b), to set (a precious stone) in a mount (1718; compare sense 26b), to stage a play (1798; compare sense 30a); also in phrases: monter en ire to become angry (late 12th cent.; compare sense 10a), and monter à la tête (of wine) to go to one's head (1668 in Molière; attested earlier (late 12th cent.) in form monter en la teste ; compare sense 10a). The sense ‘to ride’, prominent in the Romance languages, never passed into English; but compare senses 13a, 13b, and 13c.
I. Senses relating to elevation or upward movement (literal and figurative).
1.
a. transitive. To raise in honour, estimation, power, wealth, etc. Obsolete.
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the world > space > relative position > high position > set in a high position [verb (transitive)]
to set upc1290
mountc1300
erect1552
hoise1581
perch1648
pinnacle1656
spike1743
imperch1786
society > society and the community > social class > accord social rank to [verb (transitive)] > elevate or raise to a higher position > specific power or wealth
mount1581
c1300 Life & Martyrdom Thomas Becket (Harl. 2277) (1845) l. 184 For evere me mounteȝ him above that haveth mest poer.
?1503–5 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson (1937) 16 And knowe well that by you I am mounted and eleuate in honoure more then vnto me appertayneth.
?1503–5 H. Watson tr. Valentine & Orson (1937) 84 For I am puyssaunte ynoughe for to gyue the goodes largely, and mounte the in honoure, and all them of my courte.
1581 R. Sempill Complaint vpon Fortoun (single sheet) Sa Fortoun montit neuer man on hicht, Bot sho can law him within a litill quhyle.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxix. 88 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 84 My God, me poore and low High shall mount from need and woe.
1621 F. Quarles Hadassa vi. Medit. sig. F2v Who mounts the meeke, and beates the lofty downe.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 54 This hath mounted up Kings to the top more then their own ambition.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Surrey 83 Abbot..was mounted from a Lecturer to a Dignitary.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo i, in Wks. (1721) III. 29 Damning themselves, to mount him to his crown.
1728 E. Young Love of Fame: Universal Passion (ed. 2) i. 283 Is there whom his tenth epic mounts to fame?
b. intransitive. To ascend to a higher level in rank, estimation, power, excellence, completeness, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > famous or eminent person > be or become eminent [verb (intransitive)] > rise in fame or eminence
mounta1393
to get upc1450
augmenta1533
rocket1929
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. 3065 Thogh it [sc. Pride] mounte for a throwe, It schal doun falle.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope ii Who so mounteth hyher than he shold he falleth lower than he wold.
1567 R. Sempill Deeclaratioun Lordis Iust Quarrell (single sheet) Thair laude and fame sall mont abone the skyis.
a1613 F. Bacon Case of Post-nati Scotl. in Wks. (1826) V. 116 Naturalization is best discerned in the degrees whereby the law doth mount and ascend thereunto.
1622 Interpreter 4 Knowing..that Simplicitie hath onely mounted by vertue.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 42 The Prelacy beginning to mount, nibled at it in the second Century.
1729 J. Harvey Life R. Bruce i. 35 I claim no Right, nor shall my Pow'r imploy To mount to titles, or to Lawless Sway.
1757 S. Boyce Poems 153 I mount to nobler fame.
1882 Athenæum 22 Apr. 501 [Mr. Spencer] shows how..men mount from the lowly estate of chiefless Eskimo..to despotisms, republics, [etc.].
1939 Fortune Oct. 19 (advt.) Rapidly mounting to a top-flight position in plastics is Styron—technically known as polystyrene.
2.
a. transitive. To cause to ascend or rise; to raise, elevate, lift, draw or drive up. Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > raising > make to go up or cause to rise [verb (transitive)]
overOE
mountc1330
risec1384
raise?c1425
to get upa1500
to screw up?1614
sublime1616
altify1643
c1330 Otuel (Auch.) (1882) 182 Ȝef ani of ȝou so hardi be, Þat any strok munteþ to me, Mahoun mi god ich here for-sake.
c1450 tr. Secreta Secret. (Royal) 3 (MED) A certeyne Religioun helde an opynyon that Aristotille was mountid vp to hevene in lyknes to a dowue of fyre.
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Exalto, to mounte or lyfte up.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D Learned Faustus, To know the secrets of Astronomy..Did mount himselfe to scale Olympus top, Being seated in a chariot burning bright.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xxiv. 395 They did mount it [sc. the idol] in this manner, for that the staires of the Temple were very steepe.., while they mounted vp the idoll, all the people stoode in the Court.
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ix. 20 Some Enginarie aide must bee assistant to mount the water by Screwes, Pullies, Poizes.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. i. 144 The fire that mounts the liquor til't run ore, In seeming to augment it, wasts it. View more context for this quotation
1640 tr. G. S. du Verdier Love & Armes Greeke Princes iii. 68 O from what an abisme am I mounted, said Florimond.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 167 Like a vapour mounted up by the Clergy.
1705 tr. W. Bosman New Descr. Coast of Guinea xv. 282 Mounting their Heads and half their Bodies above the surface of the Water.
1766 Compl. Farmer at Mulberry When they were quite divested of the side shoots, the sap is mounted to the top.
1792 F. Burney Jrnl. 20 Oct. (1972) I. 257 Except when the Horses were left for opening Gates, or when an unseen Hillock mounted the Carriage suddenly, I had not even a thought upon that subject.
b. transitive. To direct to a higher point. Obsolete.
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the world > space > direction > direct [verb (transitive)] > aim at > aim (a blow, weapon, etc.) > to a higher point
mount1582
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 But father Anchises, mounting his sight to the skyward,..hertly thus his orison vttred.
1599 R. Rollock Certaine Sermons i. 5 Luke that thy eie be mountit vp aboue al thir eirthly thingis.
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince vi, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 205 By mounting their Arrow to a certain proportion, they may come the nearer to the Mark.
c. transitive. To lift up (the voice); to sing out (a note). Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > begin to sing
to take upc1390
raise1595
mount1601
rear1785
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C2v Boy cleere thy throte, and mount thy sweetest notes.
1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge v. iv. sig. K Why then Io to Hymen, mount a loftie note.
1639 R. Davenport New Tricke to cheat Divell i. i. sig. B2v We be knaves all three, mount your notes aloft.
3.
a. intransitive. To fly upwards, to soar, to ascend. Of a missile: to rise in its flight. Also figurative. to mount to the (also a, one's, etc.) pitch: (of a bird) to rise to the highest point or a high point in its flight (also figurative and in extended use, now often with admixture of sense 19a).
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the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move in the air [verb (intransitive)] > fly (as) with wings > fly up
upwinda1325
mountc1350
upfly1557
flurr1681
climb1874
upwing1885
c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 120 (MED) Þe sorouȝes shullen mounten [v.r. stiȝen] vp to heuene of hem þat shullen kepen oþere þat ben here princes & grete prelates.
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. 1061 (MED) Whan thei weren bothe alofte, This Icharus began to monte.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 23894 (MED) He ȝyue vs grace so to acounte Þat we may to heuen mounte.
c1450 (c1380) G. Chaucer House of Fame 953 They anoon Gonne up to mounte and doun descende.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 638 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 115 Than Rerit yire merlȝeonis yat mountis so hie.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Job xxxix. 27 Doth the Aegle mounte vp..at thy commaundement?
1590 J. Smythe Certain Disc. Weapons 15 By reason that the bullets being so much lower than the heigth of their peeces..doo naturallie mount and flie vncertainlie.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida v. sig. I3v O that my spirit in a sigh could mount, Into the Spheare, where thy sweet soule doth rest.
1607 C. Lever Queene Elizabeths Teares sig. C4v Such was the Larke, the Bustard thats below, Mounts to a pitch to sease the innocent.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xxi. 140 Great spirits, having mounted to the highest pitch of performance, afterwards strain and break their credits in striving to go beyond it.
1740 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (rev. ed.) App. p. xxxiv If it [sc. a rocket] mounts even and high.
1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Second 37 Like Birds, whose Beauties languish, half conceal'd, Till mounted on the Wing, their glossy Plumes Expanded shine.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 343 If touched by him The inglorious foot-ball mounted to the pitch Of the Lark's flight. View more context for this quotation
1854 W. Allingham Lover & Birds in Day & Night Songs v The Lark hurried, mounting from the lea.
1874 L. Morris Songs of Two Worlds 2nd Ser. 3 It is thy widowed muse that sings, And then mounts upwards from our dazzled sight On heavenward soaring wings.
1936 Stage June 12/2 The ovation tendered her grew into a general free-for-all of enthusiasm which mounted to such a pitch that even the white horses in the last act drew a salvo all their own.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) The soul mounting toward the eternal forms. B. De Voto.
1988 C. McWilliam Case of Knives (1989) xxx. 251 As orderly as a weft in tweed, the geese will mount up and over the house, and an unreeling of their elegant repeated pattern will be seen.
b. transitive. To rise or soar up to or into. Obsolete.to mount the (also a, one's) pitch (obsolete): = to mount to the (also a, one's, etc.) pitch at sense 3a.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > motion in the air > move through the air [verb (transitive)] > soar in or into
mounta1594
tower1604
soar1667
a1594 Edmond Ironside (1991) ii. ii. 76 Whoe-soe desires to mount a loftie pitch Must beare himself against the stoborne winde And shunne bace Common popularitie.
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. 1. 14 Then Aron arme thy hart, and fit thy thoughts, To mount aloft with thy Emperiall Mistris, And mount her pitch. View more context for this quotation
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada i. v. 58 Give wing to your desires, and let 'em fly; Secure, they cannot mount a pitch too high.
1689 Ess. Satyr in Fourth Coll. Poems 29 So men in rapture think they mount the Sky, Whilst on the ground th'intransed Wretches lye.
1707 tr. P. Le Lorrain de Vallemont Curiosities in Husbandry & Gardening 24 He sees the Sun rise every Morning and mount the Horizon.
1748 J. Hervey Medit. (ed. 4) I. 274 Did He..mount not the lower Firmament only, but ascend the highest Heavens.
4. intransitive. Of a horse: to rear, to leap. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > habits and actions of horse > [verb (intransitive)] > rear
mounta1425
arearc1430
rear1487
risea1500
to stand upon no ground1580
volt1688
stend1786
a1425 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Linc. Inn) (1952) 780 (MED) Alisaundre leop on his [horse's] rugge..Hit monteþ, and he let him gon, So of bowe doþ þe flon.
1565 T. Peend tr. M. Bandello Moste Notable Hist. Ld. Mandosse sig. D6v Thryse or foure times at least, he makes his horse to mount on high, And leape into the ayre.
5.
a. intransitive. To travel or proceed in an upward direction; to ascend or climb.Now usually implying a somewhat steep ascent, as that of a flight of steps.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > travel in upward direction
to turn upa1375
ascend1382
mount1440
hilla1552
upturn1818
1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 4008 The silk fley out and to þe roof in hast He mowntith up.
?1473 W. Caxton tr. R. Le Fèvre Recuyell Hist. Troye (1894) II. lf. 210v Hercules..began to mounte and goo vpon the degrees or steyres.
1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) lii. 198 The prouoste..cam in to the towne and syth mounted to the paleys.
c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lix. 204 They causyd the mynstrell to mount vp on ye ladder.
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Mount ouer, trascendo.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xv. 164 They [sc. certain fish] mount from the sea into the rivers.
1678 J. Dryden All for Love v. 65 Antony Is mounted up the Pharos; from whose Turret, He stands surveying our Egyptian Galleis, Engag'd with Cæsar's Fleet.
1726 G. Shelvocke Voy. round World iii. 105 They have abundance of very handsome middle-sized horses, which are said to mount with great dexterity.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 66 [The chamois] always mount or descend in an oblique direction.
1853 C. Kingsley Hypatia II. vii. 174 A body of gladiators..planting their scaling-ladders..mounted to the attack.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 293 On arriving at a streamlet, cross it near its source, and then mount by the side of the Pillar.
1894 N. Brooks Tales Maine Coast 59 I mounted to the fifth story of the rickety, stived building.
1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xiii. 222 She found Clifford slowly mounting to the spring, which was halfway up the slope of the dark larch-wood.
1993 J. Byrne My Enemy, my Love (BNC) xi They mounted to the walkway at the top of the curtain wall.
b. transitive. To ascend or climb up (a mountain, hill, rock, tree, etc.); to ascend (a river, a flight of stairs, etc.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)]
styc825
staira1400
ascendc1400
mountc1500
conscenda1552
breast1718
c1500 Melusine (1895) 324 Geffray..mounted the mountayne.
1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx lvii. sig. X4 They skud awaye into the nearest woods, wildly boulting through the Thickets, and with incredible facilitie, mounting and dismounting the sharp and steepe Roches.
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 289 We mounted a paire of high staires.
1684 B. Keach Progress of Sin vi. 160 The first Day they escap'd the Moat, they were forc'd to mount a mighty Hill, call'd Opposition.
1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 15 He mounted the river of Essequebo.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 17 The birdmen..are amazingly dexterous in mounting the steepest rocks.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton iii We mounted an old-fashioned and rickety stair.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xxiv. 611 While the fish were mounting the river.
1886 J. Ashby-Sterry Lazy Minstrel 196 You Should mount the Hill and see the view.
1914 J. M. Barrie Admirable Crichton i. 4 He gives his hat to one footman and his cane to another, and mounts the great staircase unassisted and undirected.
1992 Independent 27 Oct. 12/5 I mounted the long, steep hill that connects run-down Archway, in north London, with my new home.
c. transitive. Military. To ascend (a breach) for the purpose of assault or attack. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)]
greetc893
overfallOE
riseOE
assail?c1225
to lay on or upon?c1225
onseekc1275
to set on ——c1290
infighta1300
saila1300
to go upon ——c1300
to turn one's handc1325
lashc1330
annoyc1380
impugnc1384
offendc1385
to fall on ——a1387
sault1387
affrayc1390
to set upon ——1390
to fall upon ——a1398
to lay at?a1400
semblea1400
assayc1400
havec1400
aset1413
oppressa1425
attachc1425
to set at ——c1430
fraya1440
fray1465
oppugn?a1475
sayc1475
envaye1477
pursue1488
envahisshe1489
assaulta1500
to lay to, untoa1500
requirea1500
enterprise?1510
invade1513
assemblec1515
expugn1530
to fare on1535
to fall into ——1550
mount1568
attack?1576
affront1579
invest1598
canvass1599
to take arms1604
attempt1605
to make force at, to, upon1607
salute1609
offence1614
strikea1616
to give a lift at1622
to get at ——1650
insult1697
to walk into ——1794
to go in at1812
to go for ——1838
to light on ——1842
strafe1915
1568 R. Grafton Chron. II. 1357 Certayne..souldiers..mountyng the top of the breache brought report that the place was saultable.
1704 in J. Swift Tale of Tub Bookseller to Rdr. sig. A5 Your Lordship's..undaunted Courage, in mounting a Breach, or scaling a Wall.
1774 Poetry in Ann. Reg. 215 The more delay the siegers found,..More fierce they mount the breach.
1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xiii. 184 Being the first to mount the breach. View more context for this quotation
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. ix. ii. 301 The breach had been built up to such a height as to render it impossible to mount it.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. I. 375/2 Caldwell..took part..in the siege of Nundidrug.., when he mounted the breach with the storming party at its capture.
d. intransitive. Of an inanimate thing: to rise, move up as if spontaneously.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > specifically of inanimates
ascendc1530
mount1577
1577 Edinb. Test. V. f. 340, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mont Ane coup of siluer quhilk montis be ane deuis & demontis.
1590 R. Hakluyt in T. Hariot Briefe Rep. Virginia sig. B4 First they choose some longe, and thicke tree..and make a fyre on the grownd abowt the Roote therof, kindlinge the same..with drie mosse of trees, and chipps of woode that the flame should not mounte opp to highe, and burne to muche of the lengte of the tree.
1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. iii. 55 When things naturall in that regard forget their ordinary naturall woont, that which is heauie mounting sometime vpwardes of its owne accord.
1657 R. Baxter Call to Unconverted in Wks. (1846) 83 As fire doth mount upward..so the converted soul is inclined to God.
1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 370 At the same time are seen little Flakes of Scurfe rising up, that are probably the Parts which compose the Islands, for they often mount of themselves, tho' the Water is not troubled.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 62. ¶5 His ambitious Love is a Fire that naturally mounts upwards.
1767 W. Harte Amaranth 28 Intense the flame and mounting high'r, Brightly victorious when opprest!
1845 C. Mackay Legends of Isles 11 He..Scarcely felt the scorching heat That was gathering at his feet, Nor the fierce flames mounting o'er him Greedily.
1875 P. B. Marston All in All 149 We must stand, And watch the dark waves mounting up the strand.
1916 C. M. Doughty Titans ii. 41 His flames, mounting higher, should consume, In the heavens; the habitacles of mens Gods.
1991 R. Butters Look about & Die (BNC) 155 Again he knew momentary panic as the freezing water mounted around him.
e. intransitive. Of a star, asterism, or constellation: to rise, to move towards culmination. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > movement of heavenly bodies > move [verb (intransitive)] > rise > towards zenith
climba1400
ascendc1400
mount1594
speel1718
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iv. xxxii. f. 230 In a great Spheare the star called Cor Leonis..riseth, mounteth and setteth with the 145. degr. 3′0. of the Equinoctiall.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. x. 104 Where the sphere is straight, and the signes mount directly, there the dayes and nights are equall.
f. intransitive. Of a silkworm: to climb up to a place suitable for spinning a cocoon. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1796 Encycl. Brit. (Dublin ed.) XVII. 485/1 When the worms are ready to mount, in order to spin, if [etc.].
1876 B. F. Cobb Silk in Brit. Manuf. Industr. V. 149 At the end of the last stage the worm ‘mounts’, that is to say, ceases to feed, climbs up from the feeding tray to the ‘bush’,..or whatever may have been prepared for it, and spins its cocoon.
6.
a. intransitive. To become elevated in spirit. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > be joyful or delighted [verb (intransitive)] > be elated > be elated (of heart or feelings)
risea1400
mount1481
1481 W. Caxton tr. Siege & Conqueste Jerusalem (1893) ccxii 309 Of this auenture mounted the turke in grete pryde.
1807 W. Wordsworth Resolution & Independence in Poems I. 90 As high as we have mounted in delight In our dejection do we sink as low.
b. transitive. To elevate spiritually; to raise to higher objects of contemplation; to excite to a higher degree of activity or emotion. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > inspire [verb (transitive)]
inblowc975
flamec1380
inspire1390
inflate1530
mounta1546
adblast1548
heighten1604
inspirita1661
to work up1681
exalt1744
inspiratea1806
society > faith > aspects of faith > spirituality > be or cause to be spiritual [verb (transitive)] > instruct or improve
bindc975
confirma1300
enhancec1325
edify1340
exhancea1450
enlightena1500
build1526
mounta1546
spiritualize1596
sanctify1597
a1546 G. Wishart tr. Confescion Fayth Sweserlandes in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 13 Except we be elluminat, styred up and mounted, by the grace of Chryst.
1601 W. Cornwallis Disc. Seneca sig. G7 There is no circumstance, but is a steppe, mounting the vnderstanding to the truth.
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida iv. sig. G4v Young Prince, mount vp your spirits, and prepare To solemnize your Nuptials eue with popme.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. vii. 244 That we, downe-treading earthly cogitations, May mount our thoughts to heau'nly meditations.
a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. i. 216 What power is it, which mounts my loue so hye. View more context for this quotation
1636 T. Heywood Challenge for Beautie v. sig. I3 What prostrates them Mounts me to expectations.
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Soliloquy viii. 42 This mounts thy soule with more heroick fires.
1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times v. viii. 214 May not man, by custome and improvement of Piety, mount himselfe neere to an Angelicall nature.
1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 17 Such Contemplations..shou'd mount The Mind still higher.
1796 E. Burke Two Lett. Peace Regicide Directory France i. 84 They [sc. William III's ministers] were not yet mounted to the elevation of the King.
7. intransitive. To tower; to extend in an upward direction.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > become high(er) [verb (intransitive)] > extend to a great or considerable height
mount1573
tower1582
aspire1591
spire1687
soar1812
uptower1848
steeple1892
1573 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalipse (rev. ed.) vii. f. 22v The temple of Diana at Ephesus..mounted vp in the middes of the Citie.
1679 T. Kirke Mod. Acct. Scotl. 6 The Houses mount seven or eight stories high, with many Families on one Floor.
a1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Metamorphoses i. 425 Parnassus whose forky rise Mounts thro' the clouds.
1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxii. 439 The overlying strata, mounting into the hills above Llanfihangel.
1898 Argosy May 264 On each side were grim precipices that mounted to the clouds, leaping cascades pouring down their rugged sides.
1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train ii. i. 86 A bank mounted steeply on either side of the train and the sunlight was shut off.
1966 J. Fowles Magus x. 58 The beach..ended in a fall of rocks which mounted rather forbiddingly into dense scrub.
1988 J. Golding Cubism (ed. 3) 57 The compositions..are..built up of a series of flat planes mounting upwards behind each other in shallow depth.
8.
a. intransitive. To grow in an upward direction. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > grow in a specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > grow in upward direction or spire
spire1398
mount1578
1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 5 It is proper for the Palme tree to mounte, the heauyer you loade it the higher it sprowteth.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 322 They grow till fifteen, in that time mounting to foure and twenty foot.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. iii. App. 100 The use of these Parts may be observed as the Trunk mounts, or as it trails.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. vi. iii. 155 We replant none of those [Cabbages] that begin to mount, that is, to run up their stalks, as if they were going to Seed.
1851 H. D. Thoreau Jrnl. 12 Feb. (1990) III. 189 It is worth the while to walk over sproutlands—where oak & chestnut sprouts are mounting swiftly up again into the sky.
a1895 C. F. Humphreys Poems (1896) 338 And o'er that seed the cooling draught I shed;..And then, into a goodly tree it spread: And ever mounting toward the glad daybeam, At length it waved its branches o'er my head.
1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A vine, remarkable for its tendency..to mass and mount. W. Cather.
b. transitive. To cause to grow in an upward direction. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
ΚΠ
1821 J. Clare Village Minstrel II. 100 Water-lilies mount their snowy buds.
9. transitive. Of a road, stair, etc.: to go up (a slope). Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > way, path, or track > lead to [verb (transitive)] > go up
mounta1616
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [verb (transitive)] > provide with steps > ascend (of steps)
mounta1616
society > travel > means of travel > route or way > other means of passage or access > [verb (intransitive)] > ascend (of steps)
scale1667
mount1885
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. vi. 107 Lippes as common as the stayres That mount the Capitoll. View more context for this quotation
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 86 The Way..having first mounted gently a green pleasant Slope..declined again.
1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 13 The road..mounts a steep rising ground.
1885 J. P. Simpson Lady Dedlock's Secret ii. 16 (stage direct.) A practical staircase, mounting to a landing place, on which opens a door.
a1911 D. G. Phillips Susan Lenox (1917) I. xviii. 314 Twice she turned back because the street was mounting the hills behind the city.
1974 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Direadh ii. 33 After trailing between fine avenues of beech and ash, And mounting higher into wind-swept pine woods, The road sweeps out..Into the glorious heaths of Lammermoor.
1991 A. Wainwright Wainwright in Limestone Dales (BNC) 79 Here a track turns off to the right to mount the gentle slope where, at mid-height, a short detour to the left reveals Storrs Cave.
10.
a. intransitive. Of the blood: to surge up to the head, causing one to blush or (figurative) to become enraged, passionate, etc. Of an emotion, sensation, etc.: to surge or well up. Also, of drink: to go to the head.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)] > make drunk (of drink)
tox1637
intoxicate1687
to strike up into the head1711
to go to a person's head1808
mount1884
mickey-finn1933
mickey1946
1620 tr. G. Boccaccio Decameron II. x. vii. f. 161v A bashfull blush mounted vp into her cheekes.
1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss iii. i Ha! all my body's blood mounts to my face To look upon this letter.
1682 T. Southerne Loyal Brother i. i. 11 My fir'd spirit mounts; and if I blush agen, Think it the scarlet trapping of my rage.
1724 E. Haywood Rash Resolve in Secret Histories i. 36 The wild Disorder scorning to prey on any of the meaner Faculties, mounted to the Brain.
1791 J. West Edmund Ironside iv. ii, in Misc. Poems 192 Resign my conquest?—my indignant blood Mounts at the thought.
1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset I. xxiv. 206 The blood mounted all over his face.
1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket Prol. 6 When the Gascon wine mounts to my head.
1922 C. T. Jackson in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1921 37 Tedge felt the glow of an unappeasable anger mount to his temples.
1993 A. Horne Price of Glory (BNC) 177 The moment arrives where the blood mounts to the head; where fever burns the body and where the nerves, exhausted, become incapable of reacting.
b. intransitive. Of a person: to blush. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > redness > [verb (intransitive)] > blush
redOE
rudOE
glowc1386
blushc1450
colour1616
paint1631
reddena1648
vermilion1699
mantle1707
flush1709
crimson1780
rouge1780
ruddy1845
smoke1862
mount1894
rose1922
1894 G. Meredith Lord Ormont iii The reason why I mount red a little—if I do it—is, you mention Lord Ormont.
11. transitive. To rise to the level of, to rival. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival
matchc1400
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
equalize15..
mate1509
touch1530
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
equal1590
egall1591
countermatch1600
to weigh with (also even with)1600
emulate1602
side1605
compeer1608
pair1619
mount1628
amate1642
to hold weight witha1643
to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712
peel1726
to hold the sticks toa1817
to bear or stand comparison with1845
see1861
tie1888
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xxiii. sig. E5 He is..ambitious to match others, not by mounting their worth, but bringing them downe with his Tongue to his owne poorenesse.
12. intransitive. To go or date back in time. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the past > [verb (intransitive)] > go back in time
recourse1561
to go back1587
to run up1609
to put (also set, turn, etc.) back the clock1623
recedea1681
amount1714
to put (also set, turn, etc.) the clock back1745
remount1777
mount1788
retrograde1797
to throw back1855
1788 Guthrie's New Syst. Mod. Geogr. (ed. 4) iii. 582 [They] seem to fix their foundation to a period before the Christian aera, but without mounting to the ancient times of the Jews or the Phœnicians.
1803 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 9 369 For the antiquity of which [method] we must mount up to Celsus.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany vii. 83 An antiquity which mounts up to the eighth century of our era.
II. Senses relating to upward motion on to something.
13.
a. intransitive. To get up on to the back of a horse or other animal (occasionally on a person's shoulders) for the purpose of riding. With on, upon, †to.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride a horse (or other animal) [verb (intransitive)] > mount
worthOE
mountc1330
lighta1450
horse1535
to get up1553
to get on1613
to take horse1617
saddle1834
to saddle up1849
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) 9230 (MED) Þo mounted Arthour, Bohort, and Ban Wiþ alle her wiȝt compainie.
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 2448 (MED) Ten hundreþ weren to deþ ydiȝth Ar he to sadel mounten miȝth.
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll. 13) (1990) I. 30 Gryfflet..bade hym mownte uppon that horse and revenge his hurtis.
1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxvii. 131 My fayre barbed stede, On whome I mounted.
1565 T. Stapleton tr. Bede Hist. Church Eng. v. vi. f. 159 I was able to mounte to my horse.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 Wel father in Gods name, mount on my shoulder, I pray you.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. x. sig. V6 He was readie to his steede to mount . View more context for this quotation
1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 18 We mounted at the same place where we alighted, and return'd to our Lodgings.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones IV. xii. x. 271 He deposited his Reckoning..mounted, and set forwards towards Coventry. View more context for this quotation
1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall IV. xlvi. 505 Six thousand guards successively mounted before the palace gate.
1802 E. Forster tr. Arabian Nights V. 143 Each man then returned to his horse, put on its bridle,..and then mounted.
1901 F. Norris Epic of Wheat i. v. 190 Annixter mounted and rode into Bonneville.
1991 M. Sunley Fields in Sun (BNC) 227 Goodison mounted and took the reins from the ostler.
b. transitive. To set on the back of a horse or other animal; to help into the saddle; (also) to provide with a horse, etc., for riding. In passive: to be seated on the back of a horse or other animal, or in the saddle of a bicycle.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > mount (a horse or other animal) > set on horseback
mount?1507
to put up1848
society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > provide with mount(s)
horsea1100
mount1697
?1507 C. Brandon et al. Iustes of Maye (de Worde) sig. A.iiv On horsbacke mounted for to proue theyr myght Two seruauntes of this lady of delyte Sholde be mounted, armed, and redy dyght At a tyltes ende.
?a1518 Ualentyne & Orson (?1565) iv. sig. Ciiv Than Blandymaine mounted the Lady vpon her horse.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) v. x. 48 Julus..Come..montyt on a Sydon steyd.
1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 52 Isaack..royally mounted vpon one of the emperours horses..was..brought..vnto the court.
a1630 F. Moryson in Shakespeare's Europe (1903) v. i. 438 Next rode some 400. gentlemen of Rome brauely mounted.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 183 He's mounted on a Hazel Bavin.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis vii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 411 Of these [sc. horses] he chose the fairest and the best, To mount the Trojan Troop.
1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. vii. §20 Phancy, without Reason; is like a Horse, without a Rider. And Reason, without Phancy; is not well Mounted.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 283 He hastily mounted his own Wife and Daughter.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 299 High enough to admit a man mounted upon a middle sized horse.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xii. 73 He commanded that each trooper should take one of the infantry on his crupper, setting the example himself by mounting a German ensign behind him on his own horse.
1854 J. H. Newman Lect. Hist. Turks i. i. 13 These populations have in all ages been shepherds, mounted on horseback.
1883 S. C. Hall Retrospect Long Life II. 305 He had horses more than enough to mount a regiment of cavalry.
1912 W. Owen Let. 1 Feb. (1967) 113 I had arranged to go to the Cyclists…the machine is only £5.19.6!.. It will be a joy-ride when I am mounted on one of these!
1936 C. Day Life with Father 18 His feeling was that when he innocently had gone in for riding, himself, he had never contemplated having to spend enough to mount the whole family.
1993 Prairie Dog Gaz. (Clarendon, Texas) Summer 11/2 Old Oliver had mounted him upon the horse in his string to ride the Llano Estacado until he found a cowboy band.
c. transitive. To get up on to the back of (a horse or other animal) for the purpose of riding; to seat oneself in the saddle of (a bicycle, motorbike, etc.). Also in extended use.
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society > travel > transport > riding on horse (or other animal) > ride (a horse or other animal) [verb (transitive)] > mount (a horse or other animal)
to win upona1400
worthc1400
takea1438
mountc1540
to get upon ——1561
to get on ——1572
back1594
society > travel > transport > cycling > cycle [verb (transitive)] > mount a cycle
mountc1884
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. (1821) II. 89 [He] kist it afore he montit his hors.
1573 G. Gascoigne Disc. Aduentures Master F. I. in Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 239 He thought best to vtter no more of his conceipt, but in hast more than good speede mounted his horse.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 23 The dull Elements..neuer appeare in him, but only in patient stillnesse while his Rider mounts him: hee is indeede a Horse. View more context for this quotation
1693 Humours & Conversat. Town 19 I'll mount your Horse, and ride down.
1789 T. Anburey Trav. Interior Parts Amer. II. 397 I went to his house just as he had mounted horse.
1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. Introd. 70 And mark the wild swans mount the gale.
1819 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto I ix. 7 A better cavalier ne'er mounted horse.
1843 G. Borrow Bible in Spain I. vi. 117 I now..having mounted my mule, set forward.
c1884 ‘M. Twain’ Speeches (1923) 109 I renewed my youth, to outward appearance, by mounting a bicycle.
1907 Academy 12 Jan. 36/2 One of the majors was accustomed to mount his horse from a chair.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 34 In black clericals, green with age and exposure, he mounts his bicycle by way of the step on the back axle, and goes scudding down the rough drive.
1992 T. Morrison Jazz 86 Her favorite [dream]..was seeing herself mount a horse, then ride it and find the woman alone on a road.
d. transitive. Of a horse: to carry (its rider). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by purpose used for > [verb (transitive)] > carry rider
mount1740
farea1871
1740 H. Bracken Farriery Improv'd (ed. 2) II. i. 27 The hollow back Horse generally puts out a good Neck, and mounts the Rider handsomely.
14.
a. transitive. To climb on to (a partner or mate) for the purpose of sexual intercourse. Also intransitive.In early use frequently with punning allusion to sense 13c; and in quot. c1564 to sense 5b.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > mount (a partner) for purpose of sexual intercourse
ridea1450
mounta1475
beleap1513
leap1530
colta1616
vaulta1616
rut1700
the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [verb (transitive)] > copulate with > mount
leap1530
spring1585
mount1593
a1475 [implied in: a1475 in F. J. Furnivall Jyl of Breyntford's Test. (1871) 31 The leste fyngere on my honde Is more than he [sc. the penis], whan he dothe stonde..Sory mowntyng come there-on. (at mounting n. 1)].
c1564 in R. Hughey Arundel Harington MS (1960) II. 283 The meacocke mericke [i.e. Mr. Merick] mountes ye hill [i.e. Mrs. Hill] to pleasure them yt serues his neid.
1593 W. Shakespeare Venus & Adonis sig. Ev Now is she in the verie lists of loue, Her champion mounted for the hot incounter, All is imaginarie she doth proue, He will not mannage her, although he mount her. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) ii. v. 17 Perchance he spoke not, but Like a full Acorn'd Boare, a Iarmen on[e], Cry'de oh, and mounted; found no opposition. View more context for this quotation
1631 B. Jonson New Inne i. iii. 73 Instead of backing the braue Steed, o' mornings, To mount the Chambermaid.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 106 Whether the Bull or Courser be thy Care, Let him not leap the Cow, nor mount the Mare. View more context for this quotation
1884 J. Smithson tr. F. C. Forberg Man. Classical Erotol. I. 49 She has been able to exhaust certain Hesperian gallants, whom she had mounted.
1884 J. Smithson tr. F. C. Forberg Man. Classical Erotol. I. 139 A certain tinker..ungenerously boasted he had five times running mounted that little courtezan in that way.
1963 A. Heron Towards Quaker View of Sex 54 The young bachelor males of herds where the overlord male jealously protects his harem will mount each other.
1973 J. Elsom Erotic Theatre ix. 174 Men no longer want to mount women simply because, like Everest, they are there.
1991 Dogs Today Mar. 13/1 What should you do with a dog who tries to mount your teddy bear?
b. transitive. In passive. To be positioned on top of a partner or mate for the purpose of sexual intercourse. Obsolete.Occasionally with punning allusion to sense 13b.
ΚΠ
c1572 S. Valenger Cockolds Kallender 180 in R. Hughey Arundel Harington MS (1960) I. 221 O Harrie Sadler Arraunt Knight Well mounted on a Gray..[side-note] Henry Sadler ãl Alcock taken in a stable with Ann Graye.
1668 G. Etherege She wou'd if she Cou'd iii. iii. 48 She's so bonny and brisk, How she'd carvet and frisk, If a man were once mounted upon her!
1715 A. Pennecuik Curious Coll. Scotish Poems in Geogr., Hist. Descr. Tweeddale App. 53 Is it not a Scandal justly counted, To see old Cuff upon Young Helen mounted.
1749 Satan's Harvest Home i. 21 When a Man, at the Expence of two or three hundred Pounds, has got himself mounted upon a fine young Harlot.
15.
a. transitive. To set or place in or on a vehicle or a part of a vehicle. Also in passive: to be seated in or on a vehicle or a part of a vehicle. Now rare.
ΚΠ
1569 E. Fenton tr. P. Boaistuau Certaine Secrete Wonders Nature f. 128 Being mounted on hir chariot, she passed therewith ouer him.
a1592 R. Greene Hist. Orlando Furioso (1594) sig. Aivv From thence mounted vpon a Spanish Barke, Such as transported Iason to the fleece:..I furrowd Neptunes Seas.
1606 Wily Beguilde 59 The time is neere at hand, That Hymen mounted on a snow white coach, Shal tend on Sophos and his louely bride.
1684 T. Otway Atheist v. 59 What, be a Doll-Common, follow the Camp! How lovelily would your fair Ladyship look, mounted upon a Baggage-Cart!
1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iv. 564 Gone ev'ry blush, and silent all reproach, Contending Princes mount them in their Coach.
1751 F. Coventry Hist. Pompey the Little ii. vi. 180 He was mounted on a Coach-box at a Horse-race.
a1802 T. Dermody Harp of Erin (1807) II. 220 Mounted in thy rapid car, Hurry me to the ranks of war.
1866 R. Leighton Poems 346 I am mounted on the coach, high upo' the backmost seat.
1889 Harper's Mag. July 235/2 Presently, mounted upon the one lofty seat, the driver in the middle, two trunks plunging about below, they are jolting along over the stony road.
1971 Dict. National Biogr. 1951–60 161/1 The infantry would not be capable of keeping pace with the rest of the force in battle unless they were mounted in armoured cross-country vehicles.
b. transitive. To get on to or into (a vehicle or a part of a vehicle). Also intransitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > go up into or onto
scalec1380
amountc1572
aspire1581
endorse1594
mount1596
ascend1597
transcend1602
1596 R. Linche Certaine Sonnets in Diella sig. B8v No sooner leaues Hyperion Thetis bed, and mounts his coach to post from thence away,..But straight I rise.
?1609 G. Chapman tr. Homer Twelue Bks. Iliads iii. 47 Thus putting in his Coach, the Lambs, he mounts, and reignes his horse.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. iii. 206 To mount two wheel'd Carroches.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 83 We were forced to mount the Indian Hackery, a Two-wheeled Chariot, drawn by swift little Oxen.
1720 A. Pennecuik Streams from Helicon (ed. 2) iii. 165 The Sun too Laughs, and mounts his gawdy Coach.
1792 T. Holcroft Road to Ruin ii. i. 30 Drive the Coventry stage twice a week all summer—Pay for an inside place—Mount the box—Tip the coachy a crown.
1819 J. Knox Diary 21 May in A. E. Blake Mem. Vanished Generation (1909) ii. 53 We again mounted the pony cars, which consist of a single bench on four wheels, drawn by a man at each end.
1837 W. B. Adams Eng. Pleasure Carriages 87 Tread Steps, for the coachman to mount by.
1891 ‘M. Twain’ in Illustr. London News 26 Dec. 834/1 Everybody else had..‘mounted the train’, as they say in those regions [e.g. Geneva].
1951 E. Bowen Shelbourne vi. 154 She saw and succeeded in stopping a jaunting-car, which she and her sister mounted without ado.
1977 R. Dahl Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar 73 Gordon Butcher mounted the tractor and drove away into the blizzard.
16.
a. intransitive. To get on (also upon, into) something that serves to raise one above the ground. Also figurative.
ΚΠ
1592 T. Nashe Strange Newes sig. G They mounted into the pease-cart in Cheape-side and preacht.
1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 10 The idlest and the paltriest Mime that ever mounted upon banke.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. viii. 147 I mounted on the Chair.
1753 London Mag. Sept. 396 But mount on French heels when you go to a ball, 'Tis the fashion to totter and shew you can fall.
1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond I. v. 101 The window was too high to reach from the ground; but, mounting on a buffet which stood beneath it, Father Holt showed me how [etc.].
1889 Harper's Mag. Aug. 362/1 From the coarse outline of the newspaper ‘cut’ to the wonderful reproduction of paintings by the photogravure process we mount on stepping stones of victorious achievements in photography.
1969 V. Nabokov Ada i. ix. 59 She had mounted upon a captain's trunk to unhasp a sort of illuminator through which one ascended to the roof.
b. transitive. To get up on to (a stage, platform, rostrum, etc.) for the purpose of acting, delivering a speech, etc.
ΚΠ
1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. v. sig. M3v I will goe mount a Turnep-cart, and preach The end o' the world within these two months. View more context for this quotation
1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina i. 68 Whereupon the fellow mounting the stage, and removing the sheet that covered his promised Monster, there appeared an old fellow, with a pair of large Harts Horns.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 46. ¶2 The Boy accordingly mounted the Pulpit.
1720 A. Ramsay Poems 306 My Lass, like a Fool, had mounted the Stool.
1825 Sporting Mag. 16 310 Ward first mounted the stage and Cannon was no lag.
1888 Spectator 30 June 883/2 Racing notabilities, and betting men, and blacklegs, all mounting the stand and giving their evidence.
1969 G. Greene Coll. Essays ii. iii. 124 If we judge the book strictly as a novel, we have to deplore the intrusions of the author who occasionally mounts the pulpit to draw a lesson which we would have preferred to discover for ourselves.
1988 R. Christiansen Romantic Affinities iii. 103 If women had the right to mount the scaffold, she announced, then they also had the right to mount the rostrum and speak in the Assembly.
c. intransitive. To ascend a stage, platform, etc.; to make an appearance as a performer, speaker, etc. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > go up into or onto something > mount a platform or stage
to step up1535
mount1659
1659 Lady Alimony ii. iv. sig. C3v Advance, advance, let's mount and play the consuls.
1745 Daily Advertiser 28 Sept. 3/3 [Advt. of a Prize-fight] The Doors will be open'd at Ten, and the Champions mount at Twelve.
1760 S. Foote Minor iii. 70 It being impossible he should mount [as an auctioneer], I have consented to sell.
1764 S. Foote Patron i. 17 I never got salt to my porridge till I mounted [sc. on the pillory] at the Royal Exchange.
17.
a. intransitive. To ascend to the throne. Now archaic and rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > authority > office > accession or entering upon office or authority > accede to office [verb (intransitive)]
mount1613
accede1737
to take one's seat1789
to come (in) to one's kingdom1892
society > authority > office > appointment to office > appoint a person to an office [verb (transitive)] > admit to office formally or ceremonially > enthrone
thronec1390
enthronizea1393
inthronizatea1500
thrononizea1500
thronizea1513
inthronizate1535
enthrone1543
seat1595
mount1613
1613 E. Cary Trag. Mariam iv. vii. sig. G2v Whiles Mariam mounted to the Persian throne.
1861 D. G. Rossetti tr. Fazio degli Uberti in Early Ital. Poets 174 And when his death befell, The second Edward mounted to the throne.
1865 E. FitzGerald tr. P. Calderón de la Barca Such Stuff as Dreams are made Of iii. i. 120 And would Astolfo, Duke of Muscovy, Mount to the throne of Poland after him.
2002 ourworld.compuserve.com 7 Aug. (O.E.D. Archive) If, in any chronological source,—a king mounts to the throne;—an event is dated after a year of reign of that king;..one simply supposes that both datings are reckoned from the same starting point in the reign of that king.
b. transitive. To ascend (the throne).
ΚΠ
1661 T. Fuller Andronicvs iii. v. 48 To see a base Usurper mount the Throne.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Stole The first Time we hear of it is under Alphonsus V, who mounted the Throne in 1416.
1776 A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations II. v. i. 398 Frederic of Holstein, who had mounted the throne in his stead. View more context for this quotation
1839 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VI. 191 Since he himself had mounted the throne.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §5. 384 Elizabeth..had hardly mounted the throne..when she faced the problem of social discontent.
1948 N. Whymant China Man. i. 16 The Manchu leader..mounted the throne and in 1644 the Ch'ing or Manchu dynasty began.
1989 Encycl. Brit. XI. 685/1 Theodebert succeeded his father..on the throne of Austrasia in 595 while his brother, Theodoric II, mounted that of Burgundy.
18. transitive. Of a vehicle, etc.: to rise or be forced up on to (an obstruction, etc.). Also in extended use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > ascend (something) [verb (transitive)] > go up into or onto > an obstruction
mount1766
1766 T. Jefferson Let. 25 May in Papers (1950) I. 19 At that instant one wheel mounted a rock which I am confident was as high as the axle.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. xxix. 251 Our brig had just mounted the floe, and as we stood on the ice watching her vibration, it seemed..certain that she must come over on her beam-ends.
1930 Morning Post 19 July 12/6 He just managed to avoid a crash by cutting out to his right and in doing so he mounted the footpath.
1992 A. MacNeill Time of Assassins (BNC) 62 The Ford swung sharply into East 34th Street, mounted the kerb, and narrowly missed a couple of teenagers waiting to cross the road.
III. Senses relating to increase in intensity, amount, value, etc.
19.
a. intransitive. To increase in intensity or strength.
ΚΠ
c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) lxxiii. 24 (MED) Þe pride of ham þat hateþ þe, mounteþ euermore.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 30 Thee skrich rings mounting, increast is the horror of armoure, From sleepe I broad waked,..And to the shril yerning with tentiue greedines harckned.
1788 H. Cowley Fate of Sparta iii. i. 46 Yet tho' my passions do but slowly mount, They're overbearing as the self-will'd ocean.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. vi. 411 Ximenes, whose zeal had now mounted up to fever heat..was not to be cooled by any opposition.
1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders III. ii. 28 His indignation so mounted within him that he almost wished the fall had put an end to the surgeon.
1942 E. Langley Pea Pickers vii. 80 Anxious to lose some of the overwhelming energy I felt mounting in my body.
1954 ‘W. March’ Bad Seed v. 121 Her voice was mounting again, and as she went into her bedroom..it got steadily louder.
1991 New Scientist 9 Nov. 16/1 Concern is mounting that [Japan's] move towards a ‘plutonium economy’ may have consequences almost as upsetting to international plans to reduce nuclear arsenals.
b. intransitive. To rise in amount or volume; to increase by addition, to pile up. Also: †to be amassed (obsolete). Frequently with up. Also figurative.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)]
forthwaxa900
wax971
growOE
risec1175
anhigh1340
upwax1340
creasec1380
increasec1380
accreasea1382
augmenta1400
greata1400
mountc1400
morec1425
upgrowc1430
to run up1447
swell?c1450
add1533
accresce1535
gross1548
to get (a) head1577
amount1583
bolla1586
accrue1586
improve1638
aggrandize1647
accumulate1757
raise1761
heighten1803
replenish1814
to turn up1974
c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. Prol. 64 (MED) Þe moste meschief on molde is mountyng vp faste.
c1400 (?c1380) Pearl 351 (MED) Þy mendez mountez not a myte, Þaȝ þou for sorȝe be neuer blyþe.
1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. i. sig. A4v So great a masse of coyne might mount from wholsome thrift.
?a1603 E. Grymeston Miscelanea (1604) sig. G2 My owne beholding of my sinnes, doth worke my woes encrease. And as my sinnes surmounting are, I must confesse, So are they mounted on my head, and heauy me oppresse.
a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Beggers Bush iv. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ll4v/1 Sir, you know not To what a masse, the little we get dayly, Mounts in seven yeares.
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. iv. 220 It is by the Fault of the Transcribers that the Arithmetick mounts so high.
1798 S. T. Coleridge To Lesbia 13 To the store Add hundreds—then a thousand more! And when they to a million mount, Let confusion take the account.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People iii. §5. 141 The debts of the Crown mounted to four times its annual income.
1906 J. Galsworthy Man of Prop. i. ii. 38 The sum was mounting up—next New Year's Day it would be fifteen hundred and odd pounds.
1938 D. Thomas Let. 31 Aug. (1985) 323 October seems, to me in my desperate state, with inevitable debts mounting, a long way off.
1961 S. Beck et al. Mastering Art French Cooking iv. 178 Correctly beaten egg whites mount to 7 or 8 times their original volume... Beaten with a large balloon whisk, egg whites mount faster and more effectively than with a household electric beater.
1987 News on Sunday 12 July 34/1 Back home in Dallas, Texas, his bank balance is mounting up quite nicely, thank you.
1989 L. Erdrich Baptism of Desire iii. 71 All winter, I dug tunnels in the snow that mounted, mounted to the eaves and blew like dry foam off the ridgepole.
20.
a. intransitive. To amount or be equal to a certain sum, number, or quantity. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > enumerate, reckon, or calculate [verb (intransitive)] > amount or be equal to
goeOE
risec1175
amount1399
mountc1400
to come to ——?a1425
draw1425
reach1431
to run to ——1528
surmount1551
to come unto ——1562
arise1594
to equivalize account1647
tell1671
sum1721
reckon1783
count1819
number1842
to add up1850
to add up to1853
to work out1867
total1880
to tot up1882
c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 332 (MED) Þose vnwyse ledes..affyen hym in vanyte..For þink þat mountes to noȝt.
a1500 ( in C. Monro Lett. Margaret of Anjou (1863) 30 (MED) The seid somne of x ml. marcs..shalbe redy in money to the value of good nobles mountyng.
1521 C. Tunstal Let. 25 Nov. in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 273 I have..lent M. Spinel money which monteth in al to thyrtyli sterlinge.
1534 Act 26 Hen. VIII c. 3 §22 The incumbent..shall not..pay..more..than the value of the thirde parte of his..benefice..shall mounte vnto.
1560 Bible (Geneva) Acts xix. 19 (margin) Fiftie thousand pieces of siluer. This mounteth to of our money about 2000 markes.
1598 G. Chapman Blinde Begger of Alexandria sig. F Druso..Hath sent you sir in Diamonds and in Pearles, So much as mounteth to fiue thousand crownes.
1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 260 Bring then these Blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. xl The old Stock-Oaths..do not mount to above forty five, or fifty at most.
b. transitive. To amount or be equal to (a certain sum, number, or quantity). Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1443 in E. M. Carus-Wilson Overseas Trade Bristol in Later Middle Ages (1937) 78 (MED) Þe summe of all þe ffruyte þat was laden in þe saide ship..montyth summa viijc sortes.
c. transitive. To represent as amounting to a certain sum or number. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > amount to or total
makeOE
amountc1350
be?c1425
draw1425
numbera1450
numbera1586
to sum up1597
give1634
mount1639
tantamount1659
compute1667
muster1810
total1859
subtotal1906
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 284 Some have mounted his ordinarie yearly in-come to eight millions of gold.
1655 T. Fuller Hist. Univ. Cambr. ii. 27 in Church-hist. Brit. The Oxford-Antiquary insulteth on the paucity of ancient Hostles in Cambridge..much boasting of the numerousness of the Halls in Oxford, which he mounteth to above two hundred.
21.
a. transitive. To raise the value or price of. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [verb (transitive)] > increase (prices) > raise the price of
advance?a1400
dearthc1440
to set up?1529
mount1532
price1533
hoise1581
endear1603
raisea1626
to mark up1868
to price up1904
lift1907
1532 in J. C. Tingey Rec. City of Norwich (1910) II. 116 Grayn hath ben soore and grevously mowntid in to high and excesse prises to the grette pennury and punysshement of the poore people.
1627 in A. Peterkin Rentals Earldom & Bishoprick of Orkney (1820) iii. 94 According to the rentell, quhilk to our knawledge can not be valued nor munted heigher nor it is alreddie.
1708 J. Chamberlayne Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. iii. ii. 511 James the IId..mounted the Ounce of Silver to 12s.
a1777 S. Foote Nabob (1778) ii. 39 Suppose they have mounted the beef and mutton a trifle; a'n't we obliged to them too for raising the value of boroughs?
b. transitive. figurative. To exalt, magnify. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > majesty, glory, or grandeur > exaltation or glorification > exalt or glorify [verb (transitive)]
heavec825
higheOE
brightenOE
clarifya1340
glorifya1340
enhancec1374
stellifyc1384
biga1400
exalt?a1400
raisea1400
shrinea1400
to bear up?a1425
enhighc1440
erect?a1475
assumec1503
amount1523
dignifya1530
to set up1535
extol1545
enthronize1547
augment1567
sublimate?1567
sublime1568
assumptc1571
begoda1576
royalize1589
suscitate1598
swell1601
consecrate1605
realize1611
reara1616
sphere1615
ingreata1620
superexalta1626
soara1627
ascend1628
rise1628
embroider1629
apotheose1632
grandize1640
engreaten1641
engrandizea1652
mount1651
intronificate1653
magnificent1656
superposit1661
grandify1665
heroify1677
apotheosize1695
enthrone1699
aggrandize1702
pantheonize1801
hoist1814
princify1847
queen1880
heroize1887
1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. v. xxvii. 317 Love seeks no honor, but does honor bring. Mounts others value, and her own lets fall!
1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 244 If you would mount what is said to mean Conscience, the Clause does not..exclude it.
IV. Senses relating to setting up, putting in position, etc.
22. Gunnery and Firearms.
a. transitive. To set up or place (a gun) in a position ready for use; to set up (a cannon) on its stock or carriage; to fit out (a cannon) for use.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > operate (artillery) [verb (transitive)] > mount
planta1500
mount1515
brake1579
countermount1596
remount1627
1515 [implied in: 1515 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1903) V. 17 To pas..to Glasgw, for the stokking, monting, drawing, and making of crane and wyndais for fourtene pecis of artalȝary. (at mounting n. 1)].
1539 W. Ewre Indentures Castell of Berwyke in Archaeologia (1794) 11 437 A saker of brasse..mou [n] tyd upon shod whelys.
1565 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 402 Propositioun wes maid of befoir..how all the artailyearie..mycht be perfytlie montit, ordourit, and put in dowbill equippage.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 381 By East and West let France and England mount Their battering Canon charged to the mouthes. View more context for this quotation
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures x. 33 The General..caused his forces to land, and mounting twelve great pieces he renewed the battery.
c1710 C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 215 The plattform for the Gunns wch are well mounted and very well kept.
1763 Brit. Mag. 4 204 The seamen..mounted all the guns in the battery, which we masked.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella III. ii. xii. 73 On this rampart he mounted his little train of artillery.
1868 C. B. Norton & W. J. Valentine Rep. to Govt. U.S. on Munitions of War at Paris Universal Exhib. 1867 95 The gun is mounted on a field-carriage, with trail of the usual form.
1923 J. Conrad Rover v. 64 He was safe from the biggest gun of the few that were mounted on Porquerolles.
1988 F. Pohl & J. Williamson Land's End (1989) 154 There was a light machine gun mounted in a flat turret on top.
b. transitive. To raise the muzzle of (a gun); to place at a particular angle of elevation.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > fire (a gun) [verb (transitive)] > aim (gun) > elevate
mount1545
1545 in State Papers Henry VIII (1834) III. 543 Item, in Crabbez, to mounte or level thOrdnaunce.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. xii. 72 Find what deg. you shall need Mount the Gun to for any other shot.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xviii. 142/1 Mount the Morter, is to turne it in the carriage with the mouth vpwards.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. xix. 153/1 Granadeers on Horseback... Vnsling your musket. Mount your musket.
1692 Smith's Sea-mans Gram. (new ed.) ii. xxxi. 154 To so many degrees of Mounture must the Morter be mounted.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) To Mount a Piece,..to lay its Mouth higher.
1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) To Mount a Gun, is..to raise the mouth higher.
1987 Shooting Life Spring 20/2 The ‘swing-through’ man starts mounting his gun as he is catching the target, fully mounts it just before he catches it, then has to keep the gun mounted as he actually catches the target, overtakes it and shoots.
c. transitive. To provide with cannons, guns, etc. Usually in passive.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm [verb (intransitive)] > be provided (with cannon)
mount1653
1653 Moderate Intelligencer No. 6. 42 Two prizes bound for Virginia, laden with Brandewine, and other Merchandizes; the one, mounted with 22 pieces of Ordnance; the other, with 14.
1683 London Jilt: 2nd Pt. 114 They would have obliged a Man of War to have yielded, though it had been mounted with four and twenty pieces of Canon.
1743 G. Shelvocke tr. R. Duguay-Trouin Mem. (ed. 2) 14 The commadore, bored for 40 guns, and mounted by 28, was boarded and carried.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. x. 415 Four..junks,..mounted only with eight or ten guns.
1794 R. F. Greville Diary 14 Sept. (1930) 335 Two large Ships razes which are line of Battle Ships cut down & mounted with very heavy guns 24 Pdrs.
1867 H. Latham Black & White 104 Earthworks mounted with cannon.
1918 L. E. Ruggles Navy Explained Military top, a turret or inclosure of steel attached to the mast of a warship, and mounted with machine and one-pounder guns.
1991 Christian Sci. Monitor 22 Oct. 5/2 ‘Mad Max’ vehicles mounted with 106mm antitank cannons and heavy machine guns.
d. transitive. Of a fort, ship, etc.: to have (cannons, guns, etc.) in position.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm or equip [verb (transitive)] > provide with firearms > with artillery > be provided with
mount1745
1745 B. Franklin in Pennsylvania Gaz. 6 June 5/1 The Island Battery, at the Mouth of the Harbour, mounting 34 Guns.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 338 One is..an insignificant fortress, mounting only five guns, eight pounders; the other..fort mounts the same number of guns.
1831 J. Sinclair Corr. II. 277 He met only four ships, three of which escaped, but one, mounting 64 guns, struck on a rock.
1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India II. viii. ii. 207 He..sent out vessels mounting guns from Cambay.
1886 V. L. Cameron Cruise ‘Black Prince’ xix. 230 The fort..mounted twenty-two iron guns besides pateraroes.
1900 Dict. National Biogr. LXII. 300/2 Quebec was strongly fortified, mounted more than a hundred guns, and had a garrison of two thousand men.
1977 B. B. Schofield Arctic Convoys iii. 36 These were the German ships..and between them they mounted 10 5.9-inch and 5 5-inch guns.
1988 D. A. Thomas Compan. Royal Navy ii. 43 The most numerous ships were the frigates..mounting from 28 to 38 guns on a single deck.
23. transitive. To set or place on an elevation; to set or put on top of. Now only with on, upon.
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1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 9 I haue set my house in this place without the bankes, and mounted it as hie as I could.
1607 J. Marston What you Will ii. ii Ped. Sance delaies,..mount him, mount him! [i.e. ‘horse’ him for a flogging.]
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 186 Mounted a good height on the side of the mountain is Aceldama.
1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. ii. 149 For Chiarlatans can do no good, Until th' are Mounted in a Crowd.
1683 Condemnation & Execution A. Sydney 2 They..Conveyed him to the Scaffold..on which being Mounted, he Bowed.
1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 198 We bear thee on our Backs, and mount thee on the Throne.
1762 C. Wesley Short Hymns II. 41 Bid me in thine image rise, Mounted on thy holy hill, Ravish'd thence to Paradise.
1870 J. H. Newman Ess. Gram. Assent ii. vii. 222 No wonder we see more than the ancients, because we are mounted upon their shoulders.
1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 386 A cluster of outbuildings..each mounted on poles.
1961 I. Murdoch Severed Head vi. 52 A revolving pedestal began to appear with something mounted upon it.
1989 J. Winterson Sexing Cherry (1991) 105 The heads of the three were chopped off and mounted on the top of Westminster Abbey.
24.
a. transitive. To provide (a person) with clothing, equipment, means, etc.; to equip, clothe, dress; to provide for, set up. Now Scottish regional.
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the mind > possession > supply > provide or supply (something) [verb (transitive)] > provide or supply (a person or thing) with anything > equip or outfit
frameOE
dightc1275
fayc1275
graith1297
attire1330
purveyc1330
shapec1330
apparel1366
harnessc1380
ordaina1387
addressa1393
array1393
pare1393
feata1400
point1449
reparel?c1450
provide1465
fortify1470
emparel1480
appoint1490
deck?15..
equip1523
trim1523
accoutre1533
furnish1548
accommodate1552
fraught1571
suit1572
to furnish up1573
to furnish out1577
rig1579
to set out1585
equipage1590
outreik1591
befit1598
to furnish forth1600
fita1616
to fit up1670
outrig1681
to fit out1722
mount?1775
outfit1798
habilitate1824
arm1860
to fake out1871
heel1873
?c1615 [implied in: Chron. Kings of Scotl. (1830) 107 The Queine tuik gritt paynis to haue Bothwell most braw, bot thair wes small regaird had to the monting of the King..at sic ane soleame tyme. (at mounting n. 1)].
1627 in W. Fraser Bk. Carlaverock (1873) II. 92 I think the ten suttis of apperell..will serve to mont them all [sc. certain soldiers].
1680 Cloud of Witnesses 50 Yet He mounted me better than ever I was before with cloaths, and wonderfully provided me.
?1775 Hist. & Comical Trans. Lothian Tom (new ed.) v. 14 The old woman bestowed a vast of presents on Tom, and mounted him like a gentleman.
1781 G. Parker View Society & Manners II. 23 There are houses which lett out wigs and coats for this purpose; the wigs are well-powdered, and the coats large... Mounted in this tradesman-like manner, these Bail are brought to the Court.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 563/2 Mount, to equip. Northamptonsh.
1929 H. Marwick Orkney Norn 118/2 at Munted ‘I'll be munted noo, efter gettin a' that.’..Prob. the Scots mount, munt, v., in sense of equip, adorn, &c.
1958 in Sc. National Dict. at Munt She was muntit in her new bonnet. [Kcd.]
1988 G. Lamb Orkney Wordbk. Munted, improved in position eg after getting a sum of money.
b. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To decorate, adorn, trim (a garment, etc.); to adorn with decorative edges, borders, etc.; to fit with ornamental appendages, as metal plates, ferrules, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > support > [verb (transitive)] > place (a thing) on for support > for use
mount1806
1632 Inventory Plenishing Newark Castle f. 2, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Mont Ane gingillan grograin bed with nyn scoir of ellis lugit lace of blew and orriange to mount it with.
1680 W. Cunningham Diary (1887) 116 For 8 dozen buttons to mount an old suit for myself.
1757 G. G. Beekman Let. 28 Apr. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) I. 300 I must Also beg Leave to Trouble you to git made by the best hand you can, a good fuse or Cocking Peice and Let it be..Mounted With Silver, not a great deal of Wrought Work but genteel and neat.
1806 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 84 A bear skin (the most beautiful I ever saw, which I wanted to mount a saddle).
1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling x. 334 Most of the Findhorn flies are mounted in this way.
1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xl The pipes a' fine muntit wi' red an' blue ribbons.
1884 D. Grant Lays & Legends of North 38 Claid was he in honest hodden, Made and mounted by a tailyour.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 216 Munt, to trim and finish off (hosiery-work).
25. transitive. To cause to stand upright or erect. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > relative position > vertical position > make vertical [verb (transitive)] > make upright or erect
rearOE
rightOE
to set upa1225
raisea1250
upreara1300
risea1400
to dress upc1400
stand?a1425
upsetc1440
dress1490
to stick up1528
arrect1530
erect1557
prick1566
upright1590
mounta1616
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. ii. 11 Then like Hedg-hogs, which Lye tumbling in my bare-foote way, and mount Their pricks at my foot-fall. View more context for this quotation
26.
a. transitive. To fix in position, esp. for a particular purpose; to put in working order. Also: to set or put in a particular position. to mount a loom: to prepare a loom for use.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > for a particular purpose
mount1622
the world > action or operation > undertaking > preparation > prepare [verb (transitive)] > prepare for a purpose
aturnc1220
apparelc1250
dressc1330
updressa1400
trim1517
tew1571
mount1622
pretreat1926
1622 E. Chaloner Sixe Serm. 321 Wee are not therefore ambitious in mounting Altars, or framing Images.
1661 in C. S. Romanes Sel. Rec. Regality of Melrose (1914) I. 353 He aboad with him..ten dayes helping him to mount ane covering loome.
1699 E. Ward London Spy I. xii. 8 He at last pulls out his artificial Peepers, which he mounted upon the handle of his Face.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 81 The Semi~circle is mounted upon a Knee-Joint.
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pears When they serve them up, they range them handsomly upon a Dish Roseways, and mount them one upon another Steeple~wise.
1753 Philos. Trans. 1751–2 (Royal Soc.) 47 300 Their springiness makes them separate when the introductor is mounted on the canula.
1763 Museum Rusticum (1764) 1 160 When the scythe is mounted, from the point of the blade to the end of the long handle measures an angle of seven feet.
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 220 In mounting the loom—that is in fixing the warp preparatory to the commencement of actual weaving.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 817 A set of stamping and washing works..as mounted at Bockwiese.
1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (1862) III. 898 The apparatus having been mounted, was caused to rotate.
1873 E. Spon Workshop Receipts 1st Ser. 387/2 Marble workers mount and fasten their works upon plaster.
1895 Outing 26 370/1 He mounted his rod, and tried casting in shallow water.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 575/1 These inductors are very commonly mounted on an iron structure.
1928 C. F. S. Gamble Story N. Sea Air Station 8 Somewhat similar to a Blériot monoplane, except for..the ‘overhung’ system of mounting the engine.
1988 Pract. Motorist Jan. 33/1 The light unit needs to be mounted where it can be seen easily.
1993 Outdoor Canada May (Ontario Suppl.) 2–3 You can make a mast cheaply, and mount it on any boat.
b. transitive. spec. To fix or attach to a mount (mount n.2 5) for the purpose of display, etc.; to fasten (a drawing, etc.) on to a card or other backing; to surround (a picture, etc.) with a margin; to set (a gem, etc.) in gold, silver, etc.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > ornament [verb (transitive)] > tip, edge, or mount
belayc1175
tip1483
impale1553
befringe1611
scallop1749
mount1770
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [verb (transitive)] > mount
mount1770
1770 J. Wedgwood Let. 24 –26 Dec. in Sel. Lett. (1965) 100 Mr. Boulton..shewed me some bodys and necks made of Porcelaine coloured green to be mounted in Ormoleau for Tea Kitchens.
1833 H. Barnard in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1918) 13 356 The Union badge is an American eagle mounted upon black with a small tassell.
1841 C. V. Walker Electrotype Manip. i. 36 A method of mounting the medals obtained from the fusible moulds, which..enhances their value in the cabinet.
1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs Painting 302 The paste used for ‘mounting’ water~colour paintings.
1891 W. Morris News from Nowhere vi. 40 A big-bowled pipe.., carved out of some hard wood very elaborately, and mounted in gold sprinkled with little gems.
1901 Dict. National Biogr. Suppl. III. 101/2 He wrote his book, printed it in three copies, and mounted the photographs himself.
1946 E. Diehl Bookbinding II. iv. 55 Not infrequently, when old books are to be rebound, very badly damaged pages will be found, and these cannot be made strong unless they are mounted between some thin material.
1978 Times 2 May 13/3 (caption) A diamond and emerald zarf, mounted in gold and silver, 19th century, 6·5 cm high.
1995 Artists & Illustrators Apr. 50/1 Many artists prefer to sell their work just mounted, leaving the expense of framing to the buyer... This is a cheap, quick and effective way to present your work; well-mounted and protected with cellophane it has a professional, pret-a-porter look.
c. transitive. Chiefly Biology. To secure (an object) on a slide, etc., ready for examination under the microscope; to prepare (a slide) in this way; spec. to immerse or embed (a prepared specimen or section) in mountant prior to microscopic examination.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > magnification or magnifying instruments > magnify [verb (transitive)] > fix on slide
mount1839
1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 188/2 The objects should be mounted between spherical glasses.
1884 G. Allen Philistia I. 198 Looking up from the microscope slides she had begun to mount.
1886 Philos. Trans. 1885 (Royal Soc.) 176 426 The spicules..when mounted in Canada balsam are nearly transparent.
1895 G. E. Davis Pract. Microsc. (ed. 3) 375 Objects are generally mounted upon glass slides, or ‘slips’, as they are sometimes called.
1939 C. D. Duncan & G. B. Pickwell World of Insects xix. 389 Before such stored specimens can be mounted they must be relaxed.
1951 W. S. Bullough Pract. Invertebr. Anat. xviii. 391 They are then ready to be transferred through normal 70% alcohol, 90% alcohol, absolute alcohol..and mounted in Canada balsam on a microscope slide.
1989 Molecular & Cellular Probes 3 367 The slides were mounted with 50% glycerol in PBS..and observed under the fluorescence microscope.
27. Military.
a. transitive. To place or post (a guard, watch, etc.) for the purpose of defence or observation. Also in extended use. to mount (the) guard: to go on duty as a guard, to form a body of guards (also in extended use).
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society > armed hostility > defence > defend [verb (transitive)] > post for defence
mount1669
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > watch or keep guard [verb (intransitive)]
to stand upon one's watch1535
sentinel1593
to lie (also stand, stay, etc.) perdu1607
to mount (the) guard1669
to keep guard1712
sentry1910
to watch a person's back1974
1669 [implied in: 1669 in M. Wood Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1950) X. 69 Ther punctuall attendance upon their respective capitanes for munting of the guaird. (at mounting n. 1)].
1672 J. Dryden Conquest Granada ii. iv. 133 The duty of poor Honour were too hard, In Arms all day, at night to mount the Guard.
1677 Earl of Orrery Treat. Art of War 42 The Regiments, or Companies, or Parties of Soldiers, which are next to mount the Guard, and to relieve those on Duty.
1737 Gentleman's Mag. 7 538/2 The Nature of that Watch and Ward was, that each Burgher, for perhaps 5 or 6 Days in a Month, should mount Guard.
1764 ‘G. Psalmanazar’ Memoirs 161 I have seen many of them go up to the gallows..as if they were mounting the guard.
1783 B. G. Jackson in Harper's Mag. (1883) lxvii. 921/1 Each Battalion will mount a Piquett.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 82 The yeomen of the guard, who mounted their watch there.
1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol iii. 92 The two young Cratchits set chairs for everybody,..and mounting guard upon their posts [etc.].
1872 Punch 21 Sept. 116/1 Let an intelligent policeman be told off to mount guard.
1894 Outing 24 313/2 At this camp, guard was mounted twice a day.
a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xvii. 443 Partial starvation is exhibited by the male toad-fish..which lays its adhesive eggs in the hollow of an empty Pinna shell and mounts guard over them.
1991 R. Davies Murther & Walking Spirits ii. viii. 56 Compared with the British, who have a marionette-like regularity and dignity as they drill, and march, and mount guard, these American forces are farcical chawbacons.
b. intransitive. To go on duty as a guard, to form a body of guards.
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1844 Queen's Regulations & Orders Army 31 The Royal Standard..is never to be carried by any Guard, except that which mounts on the Person of the Sovereign.
1996 Times 19 Jan. 20/2 The Queen's Life Guard mounts at Horse Guards at 11.00.
28. intransitive. Criminals' slang. To give false evidence in a court of law, esp. for money. Now rare.For the origin of the sense, see quot. 1785 at sense 29.
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society > law > rule of law > lawlessness > specific offences > [verb (intransitive)] > commit perjury > for a bribe
mount1781
1781 [implied in: G. Parker View Society & Manners II. i. 23 There is another set of Queer Bail, who..are distinguished by the name of Mounters. They are so denominated from the party's borrowing the clothes when he goes to give Bail. (at mounter n.2 3)].
1789 G. Parker Life's Painter xv. 159 These kind of men attend the courts of law..; their price is five shillings for what they call mounting; they have been known to mount two or three times in one day.
1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 189 Mount, to swear, or give evidence falsely for the sake of a gratuity. To mount for a person is also synonymous with bonnetting for him.
1902 Daily Chron. 6 Mar. 8/2 He subpœnaed Roseblade as a witness for him at his trial, but, said Williams, dejectedly, ‘he mounted and come it on me’. Mr. P.: What do you mean? Williams: He gave evidence against me.
29. transitive. To put on or don (a particular article of clothing, etc.); to display or exhibit in public (an article of clothing, etc.), to sport. Also in extended use (in quot. 1884 in sense ‘to adopt’). Now rare.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > put on
to do oneOE
graitha1375
puta1382
to take on1389
to let falla1400
takea1400
to put on?a1425
endow1484
addressa1522
to get on1549
to draw on1565
don1567
to pull on1578
dight1590
sumpterc1595
to get into ——1600
on with1600
array1611
mount1785
to cast on1801
endoss1805
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ship1829
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Queer bail, insolvent sharpers who make a profession of bailing persons arrested... The lowest sort of these who borrow or hire clothes to appear in, are called mounters, from their mounting particular dresses suitable to the occasion.
1812 Sporting Mag. 39 239 A dashing buck having just mounted a fashionable great coat.
1814 W. Scott Waverley III. iv. 57 A simple Edinburgh swain, who had mounted the white cockade in a fit of spleen and jealousy, because Jenny Jop had danced..with Corporal Bullock of the Fusileers. View more context for this quotation
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxi It was time to..mount fresh linen and cambric.
1866 Galaxy 15 July 512 Although both were bronzed by the sun, and Jim had also mounted a famous moustache, they wore very much their old familiar appearances.
1884 Harper's Mag. Nov. 889/2 When rumor of bacteria..reached the vulgar ear, [she] had mounted the germ theory.
1901 R. Kipling Kim i. 10 The lama mounted a pair of horn-rimmed spectacles of Chinese work.
1909 ‘R. Andom’ On Tour with Troddles 128 Breakfast over, Mac mounted a pipe and sauntered out of the hotel.
30.
a. transitive. To stage, present for public viewing or display (a play, exhibition, etc.). Also: to put on or produce (a radio or television programme).
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > perform [verb (transitive)] > put on a performance
representa1438
present1573
to bring out1818
mount1828
produce1836
stage1924
society > communication > broadcasting > putting on or producing broadcast > put on or produce broadcast [verb (transitive)]
mount1971
1828 [implied in: J. Ebers Seven Years King's Theatre xii. 331 The mounting of this, the first performance of the season, afforded me an illustration of the obliging disposition of Madame Biagioli. (at mounting n. 1)].
1870 N.Y. Times 11 Oct. 5/5 ‘The Two Roses’ is..prettily mounted, and nicely, if not greatly acted.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 11 Nov. 5/1 They ‘mount’ the events presented and the persons introduced very happily.
1959 Dict. National Biogr. 1941–50 319/1 In 1910..Charles Frohman mounted a season of real repertory at the Duke of York's Thatre.
1963 M. McLuhan Let. 3 Mar. (1987) 288 This fall we will mount a very good inter-dept. seminar as starter.
1971 Daily Tel. 2 Dec. 12 The BBC is scrapping normal programme schedules..during Christmas to enable it to mount special productions.
1990 Connections (Sealink Brit. Ferries) 18/3 The country of Van Gogh's birth is staging in two museums the biggest exhibition ever mounted of his paintings and drawings.
b. transitive. U.S. To represent (a character) to the public view. Obsolete. rare.
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1842 W. irving Let. 26 June (1982) III. 240 My desire has been not to mount the Minister..until my arrival in Spain [as ambassador].
31. transitive. To launch, set in train, initiate, or organize (an attack, offensive, campaign, etc.). Also in extended use.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (transitive)] > launch or make (an attack)
deliver1433
offer1530
launch1916
mount1952
1952 N.Y. Times 3 May 2/4 Striking at Communist targets in excellent flying weather (Thursday) warplanes of the Far East Air Forces mounted 1,283 sorties.
1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 771/1 A British private-army leader would have mounted, or at least planned, an incessant series of operations.
1965 Listener 2 Sept. 334/1 Governments mount big campaigns to secure an ‘incomes policy’.
1966 Listener 20 Oct. 579/2 I am mounting a devastating attack on the seriousness of the book.
1979 Nature 15 Nov. 327/2 The newborn mammal has a limited ability to mount an immune response.
1984 Daily Tel. 1 Feb. 18/4 Cecil Gee might decide to mount a full-scale bid for the company.
1987 Sunday Express Mag. 20 Sept. 45/1 Eccentric Texan millionaire Jack Grimm announced that he was mounting a search for the Titanic with a well-financed expedition.
1990 Independent on Sunday 11 Feb. (Business section) 52/2 A putsch was being mounted against the Premier by a revolting tendency on the left of the party.
32. transitive. Computing. To insert (a storage medium, such as a disk or tape) into a drive so that it can be read from or written to. Hence: to enable (a file system or an area of data storage) to be accessed by a computer's operating system. Occasionally intransitive.
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1964 F. L. Westwater Electronic Computers iv. 67 Tape does not run continuously, but as required by the computer. It is mounted on what is called a Tape Deck... The tape is made to pass under reading and/or writing heads.
1988 Online Information 88 (12th Internat. Online Information Meeting) I. 251 In order to mount these journals into the database, their computer composition files must be processed to identify the individual data elements.
1992 Sun World May 73/1 One simply takes the program diskette and mounts it as a Unix file system, which means that a superuser mounts the floppy and executes a shell script which installs the program.
1994 MacUser Aug. 74/1 All open windows will automatically be closed when the disk mounts.
1995 Desktop Publishers Jrnl. July 15/2 (advt.) The single front loading tray holds CD-ROMs or Toray's CD-size rewritable optical (PD) disks. Because it is a SCSI drive, the software identifies and mounts either media automatically.
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