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mound
English
Etymology
From earlier meaning "hedge, fence", from Middle English mound, mund (“protection, boundary, raised earthen rampart”), from Old English mund (“hand, hand of protection, protector, guardianship”), from Proto-Germanic *mund? (“hand”), *munduz (“protection, patron”), from Proto-Indo-European *mh?-nt-éh? (“the beckoning one”), from *men-, *man-, *mar- (“hand”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund (“guardianship”), Old High German munt (“hand, protection”) (German Mündel (“ward”), Vormund (“a guardian”)), Old Norse mund (“hand”) (Icelandic mund), Middle Dutch mond (“protection”), Latin manus (“hand”), Ancient Greek ???? (már?, “hand”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ma?nd/
- Rhymes: -a?nd
Noun
mound (plural mounds)
- An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embankment thrown up for defense
- Synonyms: bulwark, rampart
- A natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll.
- (baseball) Elevated area of dirt upon which the pitcher stands to pitch.
- 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.
- (US, vulgar, slang) The mons veneris.
- (obsolete, anatomy, measurement, figuratively) A hand.
- (obsolete) A protection; restraint; curb.
- (obsolete) A helmet.
- (obsolete) Might; size.
Synonyms
- (part of regalia): globus cruciger, globe, orb
Derived terms
- shaftmound
Translations
Verb
mound (third-person singular simple present mounds, present participle mounding, simple past and past participle mounded)
- (transitive) To fortify with a mound; add a barrier, rampart, etc. to.
- (transitive) To force or pile into a mound or mounds.
Synonyms
- (fortify with a mound): bank, bank up, bulwark, rampart
- (pile into mounds): heap up, pile; see also Thesaurus:pile up
Derived terms
- amound
Translations
See also
- mound on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Mound in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Anagrams
- Mudon, Mundo
Middle English
Noun
mound
- Alternative form of mund
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weal
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: w?l, IPA(key): /wi?l/
- Rhymes: -i?l
- Homophone: we'll; wheal, wheel (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
From Middle English wele, from Old English wela (“wellness, welfare, prosperity, riches, well-being, wealth”), from Proto-Germanic *walô (“well-being, wellness, weal”). Cognate with German Wohl, Danish vel, Swedish väl.
Noun
weal (uncountable)
- (obsolete) Wealth, riches. [10th-19th c.]
- (literary) Welfare, prosperity. [from 10th c.]
- (by extension) Boon, benefit.
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:
- And indeed I blamed myself and sore repented me of having taken compassion on him and continued in this condition, suffering fatigue not to be described, till I said to myself, "I wrought him a weal and he requited me with my ill; by Allah, never more will I do any man a service so long as I live!"
- 1885, Richard F. Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Night 557:
- Specifically, the general happiness of a community, country etc. (often with qualifying word). [from 15th c.]
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 372:
- Louis could aim to restyle himself the first among citizens, viewing virtuous attachment to the public weal as his most important kingly duty.
- 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, page 372:
Derived terms
- commonweal
- wealful
- wealsman
- wealth
Related terms
- in weal or woe
Translations
Etymology 2
See wale.
Noun
weal (plural weals)
- A raised, longitudinal wound, usually purple, on the surface of flesh caused by a stroke of a rod or whip; a welt.
- Synonym: wheal
- 1958, T. H. White, The Once and Future King, London: Collins, 1959, Chapter 16,[1]
- He had been slashed sixteen times by mighty boars, and his legs had white weals of shiny flesh that stretched right up to his ribs.
- 2007, Tan Twan Eng, The Gift of Rain, New York: Weinstein Books, Book Two, Chapter Twenty-One, p. 422,[2]
- And I saw the green island in the immense sea, the borders of the sea curling with a lining of light, like a vast piece of rice paper, its edges alive with weals of red embers, ready to burst into flame.
Translations
Verb
weal (third-person singular simple present weals, present participle wealing, simple past and past participle wealed)
- To mark with stripes; to wale.
Anagrams
- alew, e-law, lawe, wale
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