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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.

Mount, v. t. 1. To
get upon; to ascend; to climb.

Shall we mount again the rural
throne?

Dryden.

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

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