MOUNT (2)

mount (2). Mount, v. to get on horseback, ascend, rise, set, to place on a carriage, as a gun

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Mount, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mounted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mounting.] [[OE. mounten, monten, F. monter, fr. L. mons, montis, mountain. See Mount, n. (above).]] 1. 1. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to tower aloft; to ascend; — often with up.
Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. Jer. li. 53. The fire of trees and houses mounts on high. Cowley. 2. 2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold; especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
3. 3. To attain in value; to amount.
Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. Pope.