[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mound \mound\, v. t. imp.  p. p. mounded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   mounding.
   to fortify or inclose with a mound.
   1913 webster moundbird
see also:
mounded mounding 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster
see also:
mundane globe 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
   1913 webster

         to thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. --dryden.
   1913 webster

   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.
      1913 webster
see also:
manual mound bird moundbird mound builders mound maker megapodes 
shell mound midden kitchen middens 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mound
     n 1: baseball the slight elevation on which the pitcher stands
          syn: hill, pitcher's mound
     2: a small natural hill syn: knoll, hillock, hummock, hammock
     3: a collection of objects laid on top of each other syn: pile,
         heap, cumulus
     4: structure consisting of an artificial heap or bank usually
        of earth or stones; "they built small mounds to hide
        behind" syn: hill
     5: the position on a baseball team of the player who throws the
        ball for a batter to try to hit; "he has played every
        position except pitcher"; "they have a southpaw on the
        mound" syn: pitcher
     v : form into a rounded elevation; "mound earth"
see also:
hill pitcher's mound knoll hillock hummock hammock 
pile heap cumulus pitcher 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

193 moby thesaurus words for "mound":
   abatis, advanced work, anthill, arch, arch dam, backstop,
   balistraria, bamboo curtain, bank, bank up, banquette, bar,
   barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barrage, barricade, barrier,
   barrow, bartizan, bastion, battlement, bear-trap dam, beaver dam,
   boom, boundary stone, brae, brass, breakwater, breastwork,
   brick wall, buffer, bulkhead, bulwark, bust, butte, cairn,
   casemate, cenotaph, cheval-de-frise, circumvallation, cock,
   cofferdam, column, contravallation, counterscarp, cromlech, cross,
   cup, curtain, cyclolith, dam, defense, demibastion, dike, ditch,
   dolmen, down, drawbridge, drift, drumlin, dune, earthwork,
   elevation, embankment, enclosure, entanglement, escarp, escarpment,
   fell, fence, fieldwork, foothills, footstone, fortalice,
   fortification, gate, glacis, grave, gravestone, gravity dam, groin,
   haycock, haymow, hayrick, haystack, headstone, heap, heap up, hill,
   hillock, hoarstone, hummock, hump, hydraulic-fill dam, inscription,
   iron curtain, jam, jetty, kitchen midden, knob, knoll,
   leaping weir, levee, logjam, loophole, lunette, machicolation,
   mantelet, marker, mass, mausoleum, megalith, memento, memorial,
   memorial arch, memorial column, memorial statue, memorial stone,
   menhir, merlon, milldam, moat, mole, molehill, monolith, monticle,
   monticule, monument, moor, mountain, mow, necrology, obelisk,
   obituary, outwork, palisade, parados, parapet, pile, pile up,
   pillar, plaque, portcullis, postern gate, prize, pyramid, rampart,
   ravelin, redan, redoubt, reliquary, remembrance, ribbon, rick,
   rise, roadblock, rock-fill dam, rostral column, sally port,
   sand dune, scarp, sconce, seawall, shaft, shock, shrine,
   shutter dam, slope, snowdrift, stack, stack up, stela, stockade,
   stone, stone wall, stupa, swell, tablet, tell, tenaille,
   testimonial, tomb, tombstone, tope, tor, trophy, tumulus,
   vallation, vallum, wall, weir, wicket dam, work

[6] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

mound, la village, fips 52565
  location: 32.33679 n, 91.02147 w
  population 1990: 16 5 housing units
  area: 0.6 sq km land, 0.0 sq km water
  zip codes: 71282
mound, mn city, fips 44476
  location: 44.93365 n, 93.66015 w
  population 1990: 9634 3965 housing units
  area: 7.6 sq km land, 5.1 sq km water
  zip codes: 55364

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

mound, la -- u.s. village in louisiana
   population 2000:    12
   housing units 2000: 5
   land area 2000:     0.243460 sq. miles 0.630559 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.000000 sq. miles 0.000000 sq. km
   total area 2000:    0.243460 sq. miles 0.630559 sq. km
   fips code:            52565
   located within:       louisiana la, fips 22
   location:             32.337430 n, 91.025694 w
   zip codes 1990:     71282
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    mound, la
    mound

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

mound, mn -- u.s. city in minnesota
   population 2000:    9435
   housing units 2000: 4118
   land area 2000:     2.944955 sq. miles 7.627398 sq. km
   water area 2000:    1.971012 sq. miles 5.104897 sq. km
   total area 2000:    4.915967 sq. miles 12.732295 sq. km
   fips code:            44476
   located within:       minnesota mn, fips 27
   location:             44.934912 n, 93.656080 w
   zip codes 1990:     55364
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    mound, mn
    mound

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