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Webster 1913 Edition

Mound

Mound

(mound)
,
Noun.
[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
.

Mound

,
Noun.
[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
.
(Zool.)
See
moundbird
in the vocabulary.
–
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
(Zool.)
,
any one of the
megapodes
. See also
moundbird
in the vocabulary.
–
Shell mound
,
a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See
Midden
, and
Kitchen middens
.

Mound

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

Webster 1828 Edition

Mound

MOUND

,
Noun.
[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

,
Verb.
T.
To fortify with a mound.

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