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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOUND, n. [L. mons. See Mount.] Something raised as a defense or fortification,usually a bank of earth or stone; a bulwark; a rampart or fence.
God has thrown
That mountain as his garden mound, high raised.
To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.
MOUND, v.t. To fortify with a mound.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (baseball) the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands [syn: mound, hill, pitcher's mound]
2: a small natural hill [syn: knoll, mound, hillock, hummock, hammock]
3: a collection of objects laid on top of each other [syn: pile, heap, mound, agglomerate, cumulation, cumulus]
4: structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide behind" [syn: mound, hill]
5: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the mound" [syn: pitcher, mound] v
1: form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth"

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1515 1. archaic to enclose or fortify with a fence or a ridge of earth 2. to form into a mound II. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1551 1. archaic hedge, fence 2. a. (1) an artificial bank or hill of earth or stones; especially one constructed over a burial or ceremonial site (2) the slightly elevated ground on which a baseball pitcher stands b. a rounded hill or natural formation 3. a. heap, pile <mounds of work> b. a small rounded mass <a mound of mashed potatoes>

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. n. & v. --n. 1 a raised mass of earth, stones, or other compacted material. 2 a heap or pile. 3 a hillock. --v.tr. 1 heap up in a mound or mounds. 2 enclose with mounds. Etymology: 16th c. (orig. = hedge or fence): orig. unkn. 2. n. Heraldry a ball of gold etc. representing the earth, and usu. surmounting a crown. Etymology: ME f. OF monde f. L mundus world

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mound Mound, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding.] To fortify or inclose with a mound.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mound Mound (mound), n. [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See Mundane.] A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mound Mound, n. [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. 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. (Zo["o]l.) 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mounds) 1. A mound of something is a large rounded pile of it. The bulldozers piled up huge mounds of dirt... N-COUNT: usu N of n 2. In baseball, the mound is the raised area where the pitcher stands when he or she throws the ball. N-COUNT: usu the N in sing

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

mound.

See SIEGE, 4, (c).

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Hillock, knoll, hill. 2. Rampart, bulwark, defence.

Moby Thesaurus

abatis, advanced work, anthill, arch, arch dam, backstop, balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, bank up, banquette, bar, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier, barrow, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam, boom, boundary stone, brae, brass, breakwater, breastwork, brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bust, butte, cairn, casemate, cenotaph, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cock, cofferdam, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cromlech, cross, cup, curtain, cyclolith, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch, dolmen, down, drawbridge, drift, drumlin, dune, earthwork, elevation, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment, fell, fence, fieldwork, foothills, footstone, fortalice, fortification, gate, glacis, grave, gravestone, gravity dam, groin, haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, headstone, heap, heap up, hill, hillock, hoarstone, hummock, hump, hydraulic-fill dam, inscription, iron curtain, jam, jetty, kitchen midden, knob, knoll, leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation, mantelet, marker, mass, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial, memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone, menhir, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, molehill, monolith, monticle, monticule, monument, moor, mountain, mow, necrology, obelisk, obituary, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pile, pile up, pillar, plaque, portcullis, postern gate, prize, pyramid, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rick, rise, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rostral column, sally port, sand dune, scarp, sconce, seawall, shaft, shock, shrine, shutter dam, slope, snowdrift, stack, stack up, stela, stockade, stone, stone wall, stupa, swell, tablet, tell, tenaille, testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tor, trophy, tumulus, vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work