Definition of mound

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Mound (n.) 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..

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Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Parados :: Parados (n.) An intercepting mound, erected in any part of a fortification to protect the defenders from a rear or ricochet fire; a traverse..
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Milldam :: Milldam (n.) A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel..
Mound :: Mound (n.) 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..
Kitchen Middens :: Kitchen middens () Relics of neolithic man found on the coast of Denmark, consisting of shell mounds, some of which are ten feet high, one thousand feet long, and two hundred feet wide. The name is applied also to similar mounds found on the American coast from Canada to Florida, made by the North American Indians..
Tell :: Tell (n.) A hill or mound.
Bank :: Bank (n.) A mound, pile, or ridge of earth, raised above the surrounding level; hence, anything shaped like a mound or ridge of earth; as, a bank of clouds; a bank of snow..
Imbankment :: Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment..
Rockery :: Rockery (n.) A mound formed of fragments of rock, earth, etc., and set with plants..
Mole :: Mole (n.) A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself..
Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
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