Mount

A mass of earth or earth and rock rising considerably above the common surface of the surrounding land a mountain a high hill used always instead of mountain when put before a proper name as Mount Washington otherwise chiefly in poetry...

Rapid fire mount

A mount permitting easy and quick elevation or depression and training of the gun and fitted with a device for taking up the recoil...

Mounted

Seated or serving on horseback or similarly as mounted police mounted infantry...

Mounting

The act of one that mounts...

Sinaic

Of or pertaining to Mount Sinai given or made at Mount Sinai as the Sinaitic law...

Pentelic

Of or pertaining to Mount Pentelicus near Athens famous for its fine white marble quarries obtained from Mount Pentelicus as the Pentelic marble of which the Parthenon is built...

palimpsest

A parchment which has been written upon twice the first writing having been erased to make place for the second The erasures of ancient writings were usually carried on in monasteries to allow the production of ecclesiastical texts such as copies of church services and lives of the saints The difficulty of recovering the original text varied with the process used to prepare the parchment for a fresh writing the original texts on parchments which had been washed with lime water and dried were easily recovered by a chemical process but those erased by scraping the parchment and bleaching are difficult to interpret Most of the manuscripts underlying the palimpsests that have been revived are fragmentary but some are of great historical value One Syriac version of the Four Gospels was discovered in 1895 in St Catherines Monastery at Mount Sinai by Mrs Agnes Smith Lewis See also the notes below...

title

title [Anglo-French, inscription, legal right, from Old French, from Latin titulum inscription, chapter heading, part of the law that sanctions an action] 1 a : the means or right by which one owns or possesses property ;broadly : the quality of ownership as determined by a body of facts and events after-acquired title : title that vests automatically in a grantee when acquired by a grantor who purported to sell the property before acquiring title ;also : a doctrine that requires such vesting compare estoppel by deed at estoppel NOTE: The doctrine of after-acquired title generally does not apply when the grantor receives title by quitclaim deed; to vest title in the grantee the deed must include words expressing such an intention. clear title : title that exists free of claims or encumbrances on the property [had clear title to the farm] ;broadly : marketable title in this entry equitable title : title vested in one who is considered by the application of equitable principl...

Tor, Toira, or Tyrra

Tor, Toira, or Tyrra, a mount or hill...

Plebiscite or Plebiscitum

Plebiscite or Plebiscitum, among the Romans a law enacted by the common people at the request of the tribune or some other plebeian magistrate, without the intervention of the senate; more particularly applied to the law which the people made, when upon some misunderstanding with the senate they retired to the Aventine mount....

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