Word Meanings - MOUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• Earthwards
  Toward the earth; -- opposed to heavenward or skyward.
• Mountant
  Raised; high.
• Properispomena
  of Properispomenon
• Risked
  of Risk
• Surround
  To inclose on all sides; to encompass; to environ.
• Commonage
  The right of pasturing on a common; the right of using anything in common with others.
• SURFACETENSION
  That property, due to molecular forces, which exists in the surface film of all liquids and tends to bring the contained volume into a form having the least superficial area. The thickness of this film, amounting to less than a thousandth of a millimete
• Commonwealth
  A state; a body politic consisting of a certain number of men, united, by compact or tacit agreement, under one form of government and system of laws.
• Earthfork
  A pronged fork for turning up the earth.
• Earthwork
  Any construction, whether a temporary breastwork or permanent fortification, for attack or defense, the material of which is chiefly earth.
• Mountebank
  One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor.
• Properispomenon
  A word which has the circumflex accent on the penult.
• Risking
  of Risk
• Washingtonian
  Pertaining to, or characteristic of, George Washington; as, a Washingtonian policy.
• Commonalties
  of Commonalty
• Considerably
  In a manner or to a degree not trifling or unimportant; greatly; much.
• Earthiness
  The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.
• Earthworm
  Any worm of the genus Lumbricus and allied genera, found in damp soil. One of the largest and most abundant species in Europe and America is L. terrestris; many others are known; -- called also angleworm and dewworm.
• Mountebankery
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• Properly
  In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted.

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