Mount of piety. See Mont de piété.
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.