___ Olympus (where Greek gods lived)
Publish date: 2024-04-24
| • | 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. |
| • | A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. |
| • | A bank; a fund. |
| • | To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up. |
| • | To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding. |
| • | To attain in value; to amount. |
| • | To get upon; to ascend; to climb. |
| • | To place one's self on, as a horse or other animal, or anything that one sits upon; to bestride. |
| • | To cause to mount; to put on horseback; to furnish with animals for riding; to furnish with horses. |
| • | 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; to prepare for being worn or otherwise used, as a diamond by setting, or a sword blade by adding the hilt, scabbard, etc. |
| • | To raise aloft; to lift on high. |
| • | That upon which a person or thing is mounted |
| • | A horse. |
| • | The cardboard or cloth on which a drawing, photograph, or the like is mounted; a mounting. |
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