Mount
(v.) A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land |
Mount
(v.) A bulwark for offense or defense |
Mount
(v.) A bank |
Mount
(n.) To rise on high |
Mount
(n.) To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold |
Mount
(n.) To attain in value |
Mount
(v. t.) To get upon |
Mount
(v. t.) To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon |
Mount
(v. t.) To cause to mount |
Mount
(v. t.) Hence: To put upon anything that sustains and fits for use, as a gun on a carriage, a map or picture on cloth or paper |
Mount
(v. t.) To raise aloft |
Mount
(v.) That upon which a person or thing is mounted |
Mount
(v.) A horse. |
Mount
(v.) The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted |
Rack
(n.) Same as Arrack. |
Rack
(n.) The neck and spine of a fore quarter of veal or mutton. |
Rack
(n.) A wreck |
Rack
(n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky. |
Rack
(v. i.) To fly, as vapor or broken clouds. |
Rack
(v.) To amble fast, causing a rocking or swaying motion of the body |
Rack
(n.) A fast amble. |
Rack
(v. t.) To draw off from the lees or sediment, as wine. |
Rack
(a.) An instrument or frame used for stretching, extending, retaining, or displaying, something. |
Rack
(a.) An engine of torture, consisting of a large frame, upon which the body was gradually stretched until, sometimes, the joints were dislocated |
Rack
(a.) An instrument for bending a bow. |
Rack
(a.) A grate on which bacon is laid. |
Rack
(a.) A frame or device of various construction for holding, and preventing the waste of, hay, grain, etc., supplied to beasts. |
Rack
(a.) A frame on which articles are deposited for keeping or arranged for display |
Rack
(a.) A piece or frame of wood, having several sheaves, through which the running rigging passes |
Rack
(a.) A frame or table on which ores are separated or washed. |
Rack
(a.) A frame fitted to a wagon for carrying hay, straw, or grain on the stalk, or other bulky loads. |
Rack
(a.) A distaff. |
Rack
(a.) A bar with teeth on its face, or edge, to work with those of a wheel, pinion, or worm, which is to drive it or be driven by it. |
Rack
(a.) That which is extorted |
Rack
(v. t.) To extend by the application of force |
Rack
(v. t.) To torment |
Rack
(v. t.) To stretch or strain, in a figurative sense |
Rack
(v. t.) To wash on a rack, as metals or ore. |
Rack
(v. t.) To bind together, as two ropes, with cross turns of yarn, marline, etc. |
Rack-rent
(n.) A rent of the full annual value of the tenement, or near it |
Rack-rent
(v. t.) To subject to rack-rent, as a farm or tenant. |
Rack-renter
(n.) One who is subjected to paying rack-rent. |
Rack-renter
(n.) One who exacts rack-rent. |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
climb
mount | the act of climbing something, it was a difficult climb to the top |
| rack | a form of torture in which pain is inflicted by stretching the body |
saddle horse
riding horse
mount | a lightweight horse kept for riding only |
backing
mount | something forming a back that is added for strengthening |
| bicycle rack | a rack for parking bicycles |
| bomb rack | a device on an aircraft for carrying bombs |
coatrack
coat rack
hatrack | a rack with hooks for temporarily holding coats and hats |
cog railway
rack railway | railway for steep mountains, a cogwheel on the locomotive engages cogs on a center rail to provide traction |
| dish rack | a rack for holding dishes as dishwater drains off of them |
| dress rack | a rack used primarily to display dresses for sale in a store |
luggage rack
roof rack | carrier for holding luggage above the seats of a train or on top of a car |
| magazine rack | a rack for displaying magazines |
| mount setting | a mounting consisting of a piece of metal (as in a ring or other jewelry) that holds a gem in place, the diamond was in a plain gold mount |
music stand
music rack | a light stand for holding sheets of printed music |
oscilloscope
scope cathodeay oscilloscope
CRO | electronic equipment that provides visual images of varying electrical quantities |
| pipe rack | a rack for holding a smoker's pipes |
| plate rack | a rack for holding plates to dry after they have been washed |
rack
stand | a support for displaying various articles, the newspapers were arranged on a rack |
| rack | framework for holding objects |
| rack wheel | an instrument of torture that stretches or disjoints or mutilates victims |
| rack and pinion | a wheel gear (the pinion) meshes with a toothed rack, converts rotary to reciprocating motion (and vice versa) |
| ski rack | a carrier for holding skis on top of a vehicle |
| spice rack | a rack for displaying containers filled with spices |
| tie rack | a rack for storing ties |
towel rack
towel horse | a rack consisting of one or more bars on which towels can be hung |
| Sermon on the Mount | the first major discourse delivered by Jesus (Matthew - and Luke :-) |
wrack
rack | the destruction or collapse of something, wrack and ruin |
| rack | rib section of a forequarter of veal or pork or especially lamb or mutton |
rack of lamb
crown roast | a roast of the rib section of lamb |
Carmelite order
Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel | a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the th century |
| Mount Ranier National Park | a national park in Washington having mountain terrain featuring glaciers and alpine lakes and streams and swamps |
Athos
Mount Athos | an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century |
Asama
Mount Asama | a volcano in central Honshu near Nagano, one of the largest volcanoes in Japan (, feet) |
Pinatubo
Mount Pinatubo | a volcano on Luzon to the northwest of Manila, erupted in after years of dormancy |
South Dakota
Coyote State
Mount Rushmore State
SD | a state in north central United States |
| Mount Vernon | the former residence of George Washington in northeastern Virginia overlooking the Potomac river |
Citlaltepetl
Mount Orizaba
Mt Orizaba
Pico de Orizaba | an extinct volcano in southern Mexico between Mexico City and Veracruz, the highest peak in Mexico (, feet) |
Etna
Mount Etna
Mt Etna | an inactive volcano in Sicily, last erupted in , the highest volcano in Europe (, feet) |
Fuji
Mount Fuji
Fujiyama
Fujinoyama
Fuji-san | an extinct volcano in south central Honshu that is the highest peak in Japan, last erupted in , famous for its symmetrical snowapped peak, a sacred mountain and site for pilgrimages |
Mount Saint Helens
Mount St. Helens
Mt. St. Helens | an active volcano in the Cascade Range in southwestern Washington, erupted violently inafter years of inactivity |
Vesuvius
Mount Vesuvius
Mt. Vesuvius | a volcano in southwestern Italy on the Mediterranean coast, a Plinian eruption in AD buried Pompeii and killed Pliny the Elder, last erupted in |
Adams
Mount Adams | a mountain peak in southwestern Washington in the Cascade Range (, feet high) |
Ararat
Mount Ararat
Mt. Ararat | the mountain peak that Noah's ark landed on as the waters of the great flood receded |
Communism Peak
Mount Communism
Stalin Peak
Mount Garmo | the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains, near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (, feet high) |
Everest
Mount Everest
Mt. Everest | a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal, the highest mountain peak in the world (, feet high) |
Hubbard
Mount Hubbard | a mountain peak in southeastern Alaska that is part of the Coast Range (, feet high) |
K
Godwin Austen
Mount Godwin Austen
Dapsang | a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range in northern Kashmir, the nd highest peak in the world (, feet high) |
Kanchenjunga
Mount Kanchenjunga
Kanchanjanga
Kinchinjunga | a mountain the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and Tibet (, feet high) |
Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro | the highest peak in Africa, located in northeastern Tanzania, , feet high |