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.
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. (Zoöl.) 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 (Zoöl.), 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.
Mound, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mounded; p. pr. & vb. n. Mounding.] To
fortify or inclose with a mound.
Mount (mount), n. [OE. munt, mont, mount, AS. munt, fr. L. mons,
montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. Cf.
Mount, v., Mountain, Mont, Monte, Montem.] 1. A mass of earth, or earth
and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the
surrounding land; a mountain; a high hill; -- used always instead of
mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington;
otherwise, chiefly in poetry.