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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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