Word Meanings - MOUNTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.

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• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• MOUNTING
  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.
• MOUNTAINOUS
  1. Full of, or containing, mountains; as, the mountainous country of the Swiss. 2. Inhabiting mountains. Bacon. 3. Large as, or resembling, a mountain; huge; of great bulk; as, a mountainous heap. Prior.
• MOUNTAINOUSNESS
  The state or quality of being mountainous.
• ANIMALIZATION
  1. The act of animalizing; the giving of animal life, or endowing with animal properties. 2. Conversion into animal matter by the process of assimilation. Owen.
• ANIMALCULISM
  The theory which seeks to explain certain physiological and pathological by means of animalcules.
• ANIMALITY
  Animal existence or nature. Locke.
• ANIMALLY
  Physically. G. Eliot.
• ANIMALNESS
  Animality.
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• ANIMALCULIST
  1. One versed in the knowledge of animalcules. Keith. 2. A believer in the theory of animalculism.
• ANIMAL
  1. An organized living being endowed with sensation and the power of voluntary motion, and also characterized by taking its food into an internal cavity or stomach for digestion; by giving carbonic acid to the air and taking oxygen in the process
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• MOUNT
  A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété. (more info) montis; cf. L. minae protections, E. eminent, menace: cf. F. mont. 1. A mass of earth, or earth and rock, rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding
• MOUNTEBANK
  1. 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. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that
• ANIMALCULE
  An animal, invisible, or nearly so, to the naked eye. See Infusoria. Note: Many of the so-called animalcules have been shown to be plants, having locomotive powers something like those of animals. Among these are Volvox, the Desmidiacæ, and the
• MOUNTENAUNCE
  Mountance.
• MOUNTER
  1. One who mounts. 2. An animal mounted; a monture.
• ANIMALCULAR; ANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• MOUNTEBANKERY
  The practices of a mountebank; quackery; boastful and vain pretenses.
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• REMOUNT
  To mount again.
• POLY-MOUNTAIN
  Same as Poly, n. The closely related Teucrium montanum, formerly called Polium montanum, a plant of Southern Europe. The Bartsia alpina, a low purple-flowered herb of Europe.
• DISMOUNT
  1. To come down; to descend. But now the bright sun ginneth to dismount. Spenser. 2. To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from his beast; as, the troops dismounted.