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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Earthbank :: Earthbank (n.) A bank or mound of earth.
Rideau :: Rideau (n.) A small mound of earth; ground slightly elevated; a small ridge.
Tope :: Tope (n.) A moundlike Buddhist sepulcher, or memorial monument, often erected over a Buddhist relic..
Imbankment :: Imbankment (n.) The act of surrounding with a bank; a bank or mound raised for defense, a roadway, etc.; an embankment. See Embankment..
Bank :: Bank (v. t.) To raise a mound or dike about; to inclose, defend, or fortify with a bank; to embank..
Berry :: Berry (n.) A mound; a hillock.
Tell :: Tell (n.) A hill or mound.
Mount :: Mount (v.) A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound.
Heave :: Heave (v. i.) To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or mound..
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..
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..
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..
Tumulous :: Tumulous (a.) Full of small hills or mounds; hilly; tumulose.
Undam :: Undam (v. t.) To free from a dam, mound, or other obstruction..
Low :: Low (n.) A hill; a mound; a grave.
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..
Ant-hill :: Ant-hill (n.) A mound thrown up by ants or by termites in forming their nests.
Maleo :: Maleo (n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs..
Mound :: Mound (v. t.) To fortify or inclose with a mound.
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