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mund protection, hand; akin to
OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and prob. to L.
manus. See Manual.] An artificial hill or
elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for
defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as
if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or
knoll.

To thrid the thickets or to leap the
mounds.

Dryden.

Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as
Mound maker (below). -- Mound builders
(Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North American
aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth,
esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they
were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations
go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that
occupied the country when discovered by Europeans. --
Mound maker (Zoöl.), any one of the
megapodes. -- Shell mound, a mound of
refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on
shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.

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