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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.

Definition 2024

Mound

Mound

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Luxembourgish

Noun

Mound m ‎(plural Mounden)

  1. moon

mound

mound

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English

Noun

Mounds of salt

mound ‎(plural mounds)

  1. (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
  2. (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
  3. (obsolete) A helmet.
  4. (obsolete) Might; size.
  5. An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart.
  6. A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
  7. (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
  8. 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.
  9. (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.

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Verb

mound ‎(third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)

  1. (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
  2. (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
    He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.

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Etymology

From a merger of Old High German māno, from Proto-Germanic *mēnô, and Old High German mānōd, from Proto-Germanic *mēnōþs, both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s. The two words were merged throughout Central Franconian (compare Mond ‎(“moon; month”)). The distinction between Mound and Mount in current Luxembourgish spelling mirrors German Mond versus Monat. The plural Mounden is a neologism also based on German.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /məʊ̯nt/
  • Homophone: Mount

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