Dictionary entry

Mount (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Mount, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Mounted (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Mounting.] [OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. (above).] 1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; — often with up.

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53.

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley.

2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.

3. To attain in value; to amount.

Bring then these blessings to a strict account,

Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. Pope.