Word Finder - mound

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An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense

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• bulwark
• rampart

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A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.

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Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.

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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.

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The mons veneris.

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(measurement) A hand.

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A protection; restraint; curb.

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A helmet.

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Might; size.

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To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.

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To force or pile into a mound or mounds.

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He mounded up his mashed potatoes so they left more space on the plate for the meat.

There is an ancient Indian mound here.

After this they raised a great mound, striving to make it as high as possible.

The tomb proper was no doubt covered with a mound of earth, which has in most cases disappeared.

Among some tribes a circular grave was dug and the body placed in it with its face towards the east, and a high mound covered with bark or thatch raised over it.

The site of Samaria is an enormous mound of accumulation, one of the largest in Palestine.

Bliss, A Mound of many Cities, both published by the Palestine Exploration Fund.

Bubastis, capital of the 19th nome of Lower Egypt, is now represented by a great mound of ruins called Tell Basta, near Zagazig, including the site of a large temple (described by Herodotus) strewn with blocks of granite.

There is a mound; and a few inscriptions are built into a bridge, which here spans the river, carrying the road from Niksar to Tokat.

It is a mound about 200 ft.

Its variations may be due equally to natural denudation of a stratum once of uniform depth, or to the artificial heaping up of a mound by later builders.

Euyuk; large mound with remains of palace entered between sphinxes.

The wagons are pushed by an engine at their rear up one slope of an artificial mound, and as they run down the other slope by gravity are switched into the desired siding.

In this period of anarchy the native princes of Glamorgan had their principal demesne, not at the camp but a mile to the north at Llystalybont, now merely a thatched farmhouse, while some Saxon invaders threw up within the camp a large moated mound on which the Normans about the beginning of the 12th century built the great shellkeep which is practically all that remains of their original castle.

The greater part of the town, which seems at one time to have been very large, is situated on an artificial mound about 150 ft.

Below the town is the massive tomb chamber (originally subterranean, but now lacking the mound of the earth which covered it) known as the Grotta di Pitagora (grotto of Pythagoras).

They moved like pinwheels around the mound of souls in the center of the lake.

Fragments of masonry exist about the mound.

Arslan-Tepe, near Ordasu (two hours from Malatia); large mound whence two sculptured stelae or wall-blocks with inscriptions in relief have been unearthed (now in Constantinople and the Louvre).

This is effected by raising up a small mound of rich compost around it, a contrivance which induces the graft to emit roots into the surface soil.

Midway in the mound is a platform of large bricks stamped with the names of Sargon of Akkad and his son Naram-Sin (3800 B.C.); as the debris above them is 34 ft.

Apparently this mound had been occupied largely by store houses, in which were stored not only grain, figs, &c., but also vessels, weapons, sculptures and every possible object connected with the use and administration of palace and temple.

The ship found in the Gokstad mound was 78 ft.

Over the remains a great and shapely mound was raised on the high headland, so that it might be seen from afar by future generations of men.

One of his wives was strangled and laid beside him, his cup-bearer and other attendants, his charioteer and his horses were killed and placed in the tomb, which was then filled up with earth and an enormous mound raised high over all.

Immediately east of Macon are two large Indian mounds, and there is a third mound 9 m.

In this were found large numbers of inscribed clay tablets (it is estimated that upward of 40,000 tablets and fragments have been excavated in this mound alone), dating from the middle of the 3rd millennium B.C. onward into the Persian period, partly temple archives, partly school exercises and text-books, partly mathematical tables, with a considerable number of documents of a more distinctly literary character.

It consisted of a mound, about 500 ft.

Bidding his companions retire to a distance, he takes up his position near the entrance to the mound - an arched opening whence issues a boiling stream.

On the summit of the mound were large phalli of stone.

On a crannog in the lake are the ruins of a small castle which belonged to James ("the Admirable") Crichton, and the large mound near the loch was the site of the castle in which Edward I.

The south-westerly mound, the Birs proper, is probably the most conspicuous and striking ruin in all Irak.

The library was contained in the palace that he built on the northern side of the mound of Kuyunjik and lined with sculptured slabs which display Assyrian art at its best.

Near it a mound covers remains, possibly those of the Norwegians who fell in the battle (1263) between Alexander III.

In Denmark as many as seventy deposits of burnt bones have been found in a single mound, indicating its use through a long succession of years.

In commemoration Alexander built the city of Bucephala (Boukephala), the site of which is almost certainly to be identified with a mound on the bank of the river opposite the modern Jhelum.

A mile to the north of the city a huge mound with a ditch on each side of it (but at a considerable distance from it) may be traced for a couple of miles.

He would be travelling, he said, to all quarters of the kingdom, and must therefore have a mound by which to recognize his parents' resting-place.

All over the place are imperial tablets of different dynasties, with glowing tributes to the one man whom China delights to honour; and on the right of the grandson's mound is a small house said to mark the place of the hut where Tze-kung passed his nearly five years of loving vigil.

On the mound grow cypresses, acacias, what is called " the crystal tree," said not to be elsewhere found, and the Achillea, the plant whose stalks were employed in ancient times for purposes of divination.

It was formed of a rubble mound quarried by convict labour at the summit of the island, and was lowered by a wire-rope incline to the sea.

The fort and citadel to the north-east are built well above the town on a barren mound and are walled and moated.

In the Altun or Zolotai-oba (Golden Mound) was found a great stone vault similar in style to an Egyptian pyramid; and within, among many objects of minor note, were golden dishes adorned with griffins and beautiful arabesques.

In the Kul-oba, or Mound of Cinders (opened in 1830-1831), was a similar tomb, in which were found what would appear to be the remains of one of the kings of Bosporus, of his queen, his horse and his groom.

Armenian tradition claims Noah as the founder of Nakhichevan (the Naxuana of Ptolemy), and a mound of earth in the city is still visited by many pilgrims as his grave.

The most important relic of antiquity is the Castle Hill, a mound l000 ft.

About this mission, one 1 One of the most famous of these mounds is the so-called Elephant Mound, 4 m.

Forfar is at least as old as the time of Malcolm Canmore, for the first parliament after the defeat of Macbeth met in the old castle, which stood on a mound on the northern side of the town.

In the plain to the south-west were the King's Gardens, now under grass, with an octagonal turf-covered mound called the King's Knot in the centre.

The king then lived in a tower on a mound surrounded on three sides by the glen.

The German excavations have shown that the Qsar mound represents both the old palace of Nabopolassar, and the new palace adjoining it built by Nebuchadrezzar, the wall of which he boasts of having completed in 15 days.