mounted

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mounted - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mounted \Mount"ed\, a.
     1. Seated or serving on horseback or similarly; as, mounted
        police; mounted infantry.
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     2. Placed on a suitable support, or fixed in a setting; as, a
        mounted gun; a mounted map; a mounted gem.
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  Mount \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. To rise on high; to go up; to be upraised or uplifted; to
        tower aloft; to ascend; -- often with up.
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              Though Babylon should mount up to heaven. --Jer. li.
                                                    53.
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              The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.
                                                    --Cowley.
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     2. To get up on anything, as a platform or scaffold;
        especially, to seat one's self on a horse for riding.
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     3. To attain in value; to amount.
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              Bring then these blessings to a strict account,
              Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.
                                                    --Pope.
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mounted - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mounted
      adj 1: assembled for use; especially by being attached to a
             support
      2: decorated with applied ornamentation; often used in
         combination; "the trim brass-mounted carbine of the ranger"-
         F.V.W.Mason