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..
Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
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..
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Stupa :: Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Rideau :: Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
Rath :: Rath (n.) A hill or mound.
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Mound :: Mound (n.) 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..
Mounding :: Mounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) 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..
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..
Barbette :: Barbette (n.) A mound of earth or a platform in a fortification, on which guns are mounted to fire over the parapet..
Cast :: Cast (v. t.) To throw up, as a mound, or rampart..
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..
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