Mound
Mound (mound) , noun
[French monde the world, Latin mundus. See Mundane.]
A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also globe.
Mound , noun
[Old English mound, mund, protection, Anglo-Saxon mund protection, hand; akin to Old High German munt, Icelandic mund hand, and prob. to Latin manus. See Manual.]
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.
Collocations (4)
Mound builders (Ethnology) , the tribe, or tribes, of North American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that occupied the country when discovered by Europeans.
Shell mound , a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens.
Mound , transitive verb
To fortify or inclose with a mound.