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Mound \Mound\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mounded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Mounding}.]
To fortify or inclose with a mound.
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Mound \Mound\ (mound), n. [F. monde the world, L. mundus. See
{Mundane}.]
A ball or globe forming part of the regalia of an emperor or
other sovereign. It is encircled with bands, enriched with
precious stones, and surmounted with a cross; -- called also
{globe}.
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Mound \Mound\, n. [OE. mound, mund, protection, AS. mund
protection, hand; akin to OHG. munt, Icel. mund hand, and
prob. to L. manus. See {Manual}.]
An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an
embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also,
a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a
regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
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To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. --Dryden.
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{Mound bird}. (Zool.) See {moundbird} in the vocabulary.

{Mound builders} (Ethnol.), the tribe, or tribes, of North
American aborigines who built, in former times, extensive
mounds of earth, esp. in the valleys of the Mississippi
and Ohio Rivers. Formerly they were supposed to have
preceded the Indians, but later investigations go to show
that they were, in general, identical with the tribes that
occupied the country when discovered by Europeans.

{Mound maker} (Zool.), any one of the {megapodes}. See also
{moundbird} in the vocabulary.

{Shell mound}, a mound of refuse shells, collected by
aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See
{Midden}, and {Kitchen middens}.
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