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Mount [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land. mount is used for an eminence or elevation of earth, indefinite in highth or size, and may be a hillock, hill or mountain. We apply it to mount Blanc, in Switzerland, to mount Tom and mount Holyoke, in Massachusetts, and it is applied in Scripture to the small hillocks on which sacrifice was offered as well as to mount Sinai. Jacob offered sacrifice on the mount or heap of stones raised for a witness between him and Laban. Genesis 31:21 .

2. A mound; a bulwark for offense or defense.

3. Hew ye down trees and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jeremiah 6:6 .

4. Formerly, a bank or fund of money.

Mount [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To rise on high; to ascend; with or without up.

2. Doth the eagle mount up at thy command? Job 39:27 .

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

4. To rise; to ascend; to tower; to be built to a great altitude.

5. Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jeremiah 51:53 .

6. To get on horseback.

7. To leap upon any animal.

8. To amount; to rise in value.

9. Bring then these blessings to a strict account,

10. Make fair deductions, see to what they mount

Mount [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To raise aloft; to lift on high.

2. What power is it which mounts my love so high?

3. To ascend; to climb; to get upon an elevated place; as, to mount a throne.

4. To place one's self on horseback; as, to mount a horse.

5. To furnish with horses; as, to mount a troop. The dragoons were well mounted.

6. To put on or cover with something; to embellish with ornaments; as, to mount a sword.

7. To carry; to be furnished with; as, a ship of the line mounts seventy four guns; a fort mounts a hundred cannon.

8. To raise and place on a carriage; as, to mount a cannon.

9. To mount guard, to take the station and do the duty of a sentinel.

Mount [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.

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.

Mount [Verb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

2. A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.

3. A bank; a fund.

4. That upon which a person or thing is mounted

5. A horse.

6. The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting.

Mount [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To get upon; to ascend; to climb.

2. To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride.

3. To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses.

4. Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc.

5. To raise aloft; to lift on high.

Mount vernon Encyclopedia Britannica

MOUNT VERNON, a city of the United States, county seat of Knox county, Ohio, and a railway junction on the Baltimore and Ohio and the Cleveland, Mount Vernon, and Columbus Railroads, 45 miles north-north-east of Columbus. Settled in 1805, it had become a well-built flourishing place of 5249 inhabitants in 1880, engaged in various manufacturing industries.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 4
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Mountable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Such as can be mounted.

Mountain [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Pertaining to a mountain; found on mountains; growing or dwelling on a mountain; as mountain air; mountain pines; mountain goats.

Mountain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, but of no definite altitude. We apply mountain to the largest eminences on the globe; but sometimes the word is used for a large hill. In general, mountain denotes an elevation higher and larger than a hill; as the Altaic mountains in Asia, the Alps in Switzerland, the Andes in South America, the Allegheny mountains in Virginia, the Catskill in New York, the White mountains in New Hampshire, and the Green mountains in Vermont. The word is applied to a single elevation, or to an extended range.

Mountain [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to a mountain or mountains; growing or living on a mountain; found on or peculiar to mountains; among mountains; as, a mountain torrent; mountain pines; mountain goats; mountain air; mountain howitzer.

2. Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great.

Mountain [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land; earth and rock forming an isolated peak or a ridge; an eminence higher than a hill; a mount.

2. A range, chain, or group of such elevations; as, the White Mountains.

3. A mountainlike mass; something of great bulk.

Mountain-blue [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Malachite; carbonate of copper.

Mountain-green [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A carbonate of copper.

Mountain-parsley [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant of the genus Athamanta.

Mountain-rose [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A plant.

Mountain-soap [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A mineral of a pale brownish black color.

Mountaineer [\N] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. MOUNTAINE'ER

2. MOUNT'AINER, adjective An inhabitant of a mountain.

3. A rustic; a freebooter; a savage.

Mountaineer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. An inhabitant of a mountain; one who lives among mountains.

2. A rude, fierce person.

Mountaineer [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To lie or act as a mountaineer; to climb mountains.

Mountainer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mountaineer.

Mountainet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A small mountain; a hillock. [Not used.]

Mountainet [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small mountain.

Mountainous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Full of mountains; as the mountainous country of the Swiss.

2. Large as a mountain; huge; as a mountainous heap.

3. Inhabiting mountains. [Not used.]

Mountainous [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss.

2. Inhabiting mountains.

3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap.

Mountainousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of being full of mountains.

Mountainousness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The state or quality of being mountainous.

Mountains Encyclopedia Britannica

MOUNTAINS. For mountains in general see Geology, vol. X. p. 370 sq. The more important groups of mountains are discussed under separate headings, as Alps, Himalaya, Andes, &c.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 17, p. 4
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Mountance [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Amount; sum; quantity; extent.

Mountant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Rising on high.

Mountant [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Raised; high.

Mountebank [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. One who mounts a bench or state in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, vends medicines which he pretends are infallible remedies, and thus deludes the ignorant multitude. Persons of this character may be indicted and punished.

2. Any boastful and false pretender.

3. Nothing so impossible in nature, but mountebanks will undertake.

Mountebank [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

Mountebank [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.

2. Any boastful or false pretender; a charlatan; a quack.

Mountebank [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To play the mountebank.

Mountebank [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To cheat by boasting and false pretenses; to gull.

Mountebankery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Mountebankery [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.

Mountebankish [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Like a mountebank or his quackery.

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Genesis 7:19

And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

Finally, the waters completely inundated the earth, so that all the high mountains under all the heavens were covered.

Genesis 7:20

Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.

The waters rose and covered the mountaintops to a depth of fifteen cubits.

Genesis 8:4

And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

Genesis 8:5

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

Genesis 10:30

And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest unto Sephar a mount of the east.

Their territory extended from Mesha to Sephar, in the eastern hill country.

Genesis 12:8

And he removed from thence unto a mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: and there he builded an altar unto the LORD, and called upon the name of the LORD.

From there Abram moved on to the hill country east of Bethel and pitched his tent, with Bethel to the west and Ai to the east. There he built an altar to the LORD, and he called on the name of the LORD.

Genesis 14:6

And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

and the Horites in the area of Mount Seir, as far as El-paran, which is near the desert.

Genesis 14:10

And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.

Now the Valley of Siddim was full of tar pits, and as the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some men fell into the pits, but the survivors fled to the hill country.

Genesis 19:17

And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed.

As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

Genesis 19:19

Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life; and I cannot escape to the mountain, lest some evil take me, and I die:

Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

Genesis 19:30

And Lot went up out of Zoar, and dwelt in the mountain, and his two daughters with him; for he feared to dwell in Zoar: and he dwelt in a cave, he and his two daughters.

Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains—for he was afraid to stay in Zoar—where they lived in a cave.

Genesis 22:2

And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

Genesis 22:14

And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the LORD it shall be seen.

And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”

Genesis 24:61

And Rebekah arose, and her damsels, and they rode upon the camels, and followed the man: and the servant took Rebekah, and went his way.

Then Rebekah and her servant girls got ready, mounted the camels, and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and left.

Genesis 31:21

So he fled with all that he had; and he rose up, and passed over the river, and set his face toward the mount Gilead.

So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:23

And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days’ journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.

So he took his relatives with him, pursued Jacob for seven days, and overtook him in the hill country of Gilead.

Genesis 31:25

Then Laban overtook Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the mount: and Laban with his brethren pitched in the mount of Gilead.

Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country of Gilead when Laban overtook him, and Laban and his relatives camped there as well.

Genesis 31:54

Then Jacob offered sacrifice upon the mount, and called his brethren to eat bread: and they did eat bread, and tarried all night in the mount.

Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.

Genesis 36:8

Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

So Esau (that is, Edom) settled in the area of Mount Seir.

Genesis 36:9

And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

This is the account of Esau, the father of the Edomites, in the area of Mount Seir.