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

To mount again.

To rise above; to be higher than; to overtop. The mountains of Olympus, Athos, and Atlas, overreach and surmount all winds and clouds. Sir W. Raleigh.

Capable of being surmounted or overcome; superable. -- Sur*mount"a*ble*ness, n.

Having its vertical height greater than the half span; -- said of an arch.

One who, or that which, surmounts.

Equivalent in value, signification, or effect. A usage nearly tantamount to constitutional right. Hallam. The certainty that delay, under these circumstances, was tantamount to ruin. De Quincey.

Insurmountable. Locke.

The amount abated; that which is taken away by way of reduction; deduction; decrease; a rebate or discount allowed.

the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth.

nounce free; as, to absolve a subject from his allegiance; to absolve an offender, which amounts to an acquittal and remission of his punishment. Halifax was absolved by a majority of fourteen. Macaulay.

hings; the doctrine held by the ancient Skeptic philosophers, that human knowledge never amounts to certainty, but only to probability.

ee Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar time earlier than on the day preceding. --…

Easy of access or approach; approachable; as, an accessible town or mountain, an accessible person.

An instrument for estimating the amount of acetic acid in vinegar or in any liquid containing acetic acid.

Of or pertaining to the high mountain range of "thunder- smitten" peaks (now Kimara), between Epirus and Macedonia. Shelley.

e to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.

An earthwork; a mound; a raised work. [Obs.] Hearne.

To amount in the aggregate to; as, ten loads, aggregating five hundred bushels. [Colloq.]

nger; a warming sound to arouse attention; a warning of danger. Sound an alarm in my holy mountain. Joel ii. 1.