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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Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Cam :: Cam (n.) A ridge or mound of earth.
Eschar :: Eschar (n.) In Ireland, one of the continuous mounds or ridges of gravelly and sandy drift which extend for many miles over the surface of the country. Similar ridges in Scotland are called kames or kams..
Mound :: Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
Rideau :: Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Stupa :: Stupa (n.) A mound or monument commemorative of Buddha.
Mounded :: Mounded (imp. & p. p.) of Moun.
Burrow :: Burrow (n.) A mound. See 3d Barrow, and Camp, n., 5..
Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Agger :: Agger (n.) An earthwork; a mound; a raised work.
Hornito :: Hornito (n.) A low, oven-shaped mound, common in volcanic regions, and emitting smoke and vapors from its sides and summit..
Tumulate :: Tumulate (v. t.) To cover, as a corpse, with a mound or tomb; to bury..
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
Dun :: Dun (n.) A mound or small hill.
Maleo :: Maleo (n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs..
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..
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..
Barrow :: Barrow (n.) A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead; a tumulus.
Knoll :: Knoll (n.) A little round hill; a mound; a small elevation of earth; the top or crown of a hill.
Orb :: Orb (n.) Same as Mound, a ball or globe. See lst Mound..
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