a mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, mount washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.-a bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.-a bank; a fund.-to rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.-to get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.-to attain in value; to amount.-to get upon; to ascend; to climb.-to place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.-to cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.-hence: to put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.-to raise aloft; to lift on high.-that upon which a person or thing is mounted-a horse.-the cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.