||A*mo"tus (&?;), a. [L., withdrawn (from it&?;place).] (Zoöl.) Elevated, -- as a toe, when raised so high that the tip does not touch the ground.
A*mount" (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Amounted; p. pr. & vb. n. Amounting.] [OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr. amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See Mount, n.] 1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Spenser.
2. To rise or reach by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities; to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the testimony amounts to very little.