Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-MOUNT'
DIS-MOUNT', v.i. [dis and mount; Fr. demonter; Sp. desmontar; It. smontare.]
- To alight from a horse; to descend or get off, as a rider from a beast; as, the officer ordered his troops to dismount.
- To descend from an elevation. – Spenser.
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