| mound | 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. "To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds." (Dryden) Mound bird. <zoology> Any one of the megapodes. Shell mound, a mound of refuse shells, collected by aborigines who subsisted largely on shellfish. See Midden, and Kitchen middens. Origin: OE. Mound, mund, protection, AS. Mund protection, hand; akin to OHG. Munt, Icel. Mund hand, and prob. To L. Manus. See Manual. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mounding | A localised contraction of a degenerating muscle, occurring at the point of a sharp blow, independent of the nerve supply. Synonym: idiomuscular contraction, mounding, myoidema. Origin: myo-+ G. Oidema, swelling (05 Mar 2000) |