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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MOUNT'ING, ppr. Rising; soaring; placing on horseback; ascending an eminence; embellishing.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: climb, climbing, mounting]
2: framework used for support or display

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1618 mount III,2

U.S. Military Dictionary

(*) 1. All preparations made in areas designated for the purpose, in anticipation of an operation. It includes the assembly in the mounting area, preparation and maintenance within the mounting area, movement to loading points, and subsequent embarkation into ships, craft, or aircraft if applicable. 2. (DOD only) A carriage or stand upon which a weapon is placed.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 = MOUNT(1) n. 1. 2 in senses of MOUNT(1) v. Phrases and idioms: mounting-block a block of stone placed to help a rider mount a horse.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mount Mount, v. 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mounting Mount"ing, n. 1. The act of one that mounts. 2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the mounting of a sword or diamond.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mounting Mount"ing, n. (A["e]ronautics) = Carriage.

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