Hypertext Webster Gateway: "mounting"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mounting \Mount"ing\, n.
1. The act of one that mounts.
2. That by which anything is prepared for use, or set off to
advantage; equipment; embellishment; setting; as, the
mounting of a sword or diamond.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mounting \Mount"ing\, n. (A["e]ronautics)
= {Carriage}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mounting
n 1: an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in
altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: {climb},
{climbing}]
2: framework used for support or display
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