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Mount. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Bibliographic Record Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022. Mount subs. (common).—1.  A saddle-horse.

1   1856.  WHYTE-MELVILLE, Kate Coventry, i. We ride many an impetuous steed in safety and comfort that a man would find a dangerous and uncontrollable MOUNT.

2   1873.  BROUGHTON, Nancy, vi. ‘His horses would certainly carry me: I wonder would he give me a MOUNT now and then.’

3   2.  (venery).—1.  A wife or mistress; and (2) an act of coition. [Cf. Mrs. MOUNT in Richard Feverel.]

4   3.  (old cant).—A bridge.

5   Verb. (common).—1.  To wear; to carry as an equipment.

6   1822.  MOORE, Life, 26 March. Weather like midsummer: the dandies all MOUNTING their white trousers.

7   1847.  THACKERAY, Vanity Fair, viii. One is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one MOUNTS a cap and bells or a shovel-hat.

8   2.  (theatrical).—To prepare for representation on the stage.

9   1880.  Athenæum, 6 March, p. 322. As regards MOUNTING and general decorations the revival is superior to any previous performance of As You Like It.

10   3.  (old).—To swear falsely; to give false evidence: for money.

11   1789.  G. PARKER, Life’s Painter, p. 159, s.v.

12   1819.  J. H. VAUX, Memoirs, s.v. MOUNT, to swear, or give evidence falsely for the sake of a gratuity. TO MOUNT FOR a person is also synonymous with bonnetting for him.

13   1859.  G. W. MATSELL, Vocabulum; or, The Rogue’s Lexicon, s.v. MOUNT. To give false testimony.

14   4.  (venery).—To copulate. For synonyms, see GREENS and RIDE.

15   1593.  SHAKESPEARE, Venus and Adonis.        Her champion MOUNTED for the hot encounter … He will not manage her, although he MOUNT her.

16   1620.  MIDDLETON, A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, v. 4. A woman may be honest according to the English print, when she’s a whore in the Latin; so much for marriage and logic: I’ll love her for her wit. I’ll pick out my runts there; and for my mountains, I’ll MOUNT— [So in original, but the play on words is clear.]

17   1629.  JONSON, The New Inn [CUNNINGHAM, ii. 344], i. 1.        Instead of backing the brave steed o’ mornings, [My copy has] to MOUNT the chambermaid.

18   1662.  Rump Songs, i. p. 358.        He caught a Foal and MOUNTED her   (O base!) below the Crupper.

19   1668.  ETHEREGE, She Would if She Could, iii. 2.          She’s so bonny and brisk,   How she’d curvet and frisk, If a man were once MOUNTED upon her!

20   1715.  PENNECUIK, Poems (1815), p. 363. To see old Cuff upon young Helen MOUNTED.

21   1847.  HALLIWELL, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, etc., s.v. MOUNT. Futuo.

22   TO MOUNT THE ASS, verb. phr. (old).—To go bankrupt. [In France it was customary to mount a bankrupt on an ass, face to tail, and ride him through the streets.]

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