I. ˈmau̇nd verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: origin unknown
transitive verb
1. archaic
a. : to surround with a barrier : fence
to mound over the hill would require double the rails — Jethro Tull
b. : to enclose or fortify with a ridge of earth
heaped hills that mound the sea — Alfred Tennyson
2.
a. : to gather into a heap : pile
snow mounded in high white cones above the pillars — Josephine Johnson
b. : to surround or cover with a raised heap : bank , hill
roses are mounded for winter protection
the mounded grave of a British Tommy — T.O.Heggen
spotted the wreck, which the silt of 22 centuries had mounded up — National Geographic
intransitive verb
: to become a mound : pile up
thunderheads are mounding in the west
II. noun
( -s )
Usage: often attributive
Etymology: origin unknown
1.
a. dialect chiefly England : an encompassing hedge or fence
b. obsolete : a line of demarcation : boundary
stars, whose whirling courses … mark the true mounds of years, and months, and days — Josuah Sylvester
2.
a. : an earthwork used as a fortification : rampart
b. : a prehistoric earthwork constructed by Indian mound builders of No. America over a burial or sacrificial altar or as a foundation or fortification or for ceremonial purposes
3.
a. : an accumulated mass or artificially produced heap : pile
mounds of oyster shells surround the weathered frame shacks — American Guide Series: Florida
began to process mounds of orders — M.E.Harvey
fluffy mounds of mashed potatoes — Jack Alexander
b. : the slightly elevated area in which a baseball pitcher's plate is set
c. : a natural elevation : hill , knoll
mounds and dunes of loose sand — Willa Cather
hurricanes … dragging in their centers a mound of seawater — Marjory S. Douglas
specifically : hump
under his left eye was a mound of bluish flesh — G.B.Shaw
III. noun
also mond ˈmänd
( -s )
Etymology: Middle French monde, literally, world, from Latin mundus
: orb 1c(3)