Word Meanings - MOUNTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

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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.
• DIAMOND-SHAPED
  Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
• DIAMONDIZE
  To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. Diamondizing of your subject. B. Jonson.
• SWORDLESS
  Destitute of a sword.
• SWORDSMANSHIP
  The state of being a swordsman; skill in the use of the sword. Cowper.
• SWORD-SHAPED
  Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.
• SETTLEMENT
  A disposition of property for the benefit of some person or persons, usually through the medium of trustees, and for the benefit of a wife, children, or other relatives; jointure granted to a wife, or the act of granting it. 2. That which settles,
• PREPARATIVELY
  By way of preparation.
• SETT
  See 3
• MOUNTANT
  Raised; high.
• SWORDING
  Slashing with a sword. Tennyson.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• ADVANTAGE
  1. Any condition, circumstance, opportunity, or means, particularly favorable to success, or to any desired end; benefit; as, the enemy had the advantage of a more elevated position. Give me advantage of some brief discourse. Shak. The advantages
• SETTER
  A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by
• ANYTHINGARIAN
  One who holds to no particular creed or dogma.
• MOUNTEBANKISM
  The practices of a mountebank; mountebankery.
• 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
• DEMOUNT
  To dismount.
• BROADSWORD
  A sword with a broad blade and a cutting edge; a claymore. I heard the broadsword's deadly clang. Sir W. Scott.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• INSURMOUNTABILITY
  The state or quality of being insurmountable.
• UPSETTING
  Conceited; assuming; as, an upsetting fellow. Jamieson.
• TYPESETTING
  The act or art of setting type.
• ROSETTA WOOD
  An east Indian wood of a reddish orange color, handsomely veined with darker marks. It is occasionally used for cabinetwork. Ure.
• SUNSET; SUNSETTING
  1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively. 'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore. Campbell. 2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west. Sunset shell , a West
• FRISETTE; FRIZETTE
  a fringe of hair or curls worn about the forehead by women.
• ANISETTE
  A French cordial or liqueur flavored with anise seeds. De Colange.