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▪ I. remount, n. Mil.|riː-, rɪˈmaʊnt|
[f. the vb.]
1. a. (See quot. 1802.)
1781R. F. Greville Diary 5 Aug. (1930) 11 This was a favorable opportunity to take a ride, & try a new mare I had lately purchased, & one of a remount, made within a short time of my Appointment. 1802James Milit. Dict., A Remount means a supply of good and serviceable horses for the whole or part of a cavalry regiment. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Desp. (1838) VII. 35, I also beg leave to recommend that about 50 or 60 horses or mares..should be purchased..as a remount for the Officers of the cavalry. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 413/1 By a late order the name of stud has been changed to that of remount.
b. A horse used to replace another which is worn out or killed.
1829Napier Penins. War II. 262 He made every exertion to obtain..remounts for the cavalry. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 337/1 The general age of remounts varies from 3–5 years old.
2. attrib., as remount depot, remount horse, remount stable, etc.
1812Examiner 28 Dec. 822/1 General Bourier has..more than 20,000 remount-horses. 1876Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict. 191/2 The latter..are offered for sale to the government stud or remount depot. 1880Gillmore On Duty 26, I visited the camp and remount stable.
▪ II. remount, v.|riː-, rɪˈmaʊnt|
[ad. OF. remonter, f. re- re- + monter to mount. In later use partly a new formation on re- and mount v.]
I. trans.
†1. To raise or lift up again; to restore to a former state. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. i. 49 (Camb. MS.) Thow hast remounted and norysshed me with the weyhte of thy sentenses. 1486Bk. St. Albans C j, Who so puttith hir in mew lene, it will be long or she be remounted. 1530Palsgr. 685/2, I remounte, I reyse up (Lydgate), je monte, je eslieue. 1577Fenton Gold. Epist. 309 If we stumble or fall, he may lend vs his hand eftsoones to remount vs.
b. To set up in place again; esp. to mount (a gun) again.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. ii. 6 Which is the best..for..remounting any dismounted peece. 1685Travestin Siege Newheusel 20 This night the besieged..remounted several Cannon upon the new Batteries. 1748Anson's Voy. i. vi. 63 To remount such of their guns as had formerly..been ordered into the hold. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvi. 238 The upper ball thus remounted shall roll out of its box.
c. To mount, put together, again.
188819th Cent. June 853 One man takes to pieces the syringes,..burns the leathers, disinfects the metal parts, and sends them to the instrument-maker to be remounted.
2. a. To replace, to assist or enable (one) to mount again, on horseback.
c1400Laud Troy Bk. 6162 His hert gret angur surmounted, That Achilles was remounted. c1450Merlin 159 Belias and flaundryns..peyned hem for to remounte hem on her horse. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxiv. 86 His men,..wyth right grete peyne,..remounted hym on his hors. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 8 b, When he was remounted, he made a countenaunce to assayle hys aduersarie. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1638) 152 One of his faithfull followers remounted him vpon his owne horse. 1685Travestin Siege Newheusel 10 The Prince..was in great danger, a Cannon-bullet having taken off one of his Horses legs, but he was presently remounted. 1759Sterne Tr. Shandy ii. x, This accident happened so near the house as not to make it worth while for Obadiah to remount him.
b. To provide (cavalry) with fresh horses.
1688Lond. Gaz. No. 2332/3 It is added,..That the Cavalry of Catalogne is to be re-mounted. 1704Ibid. 3987/1, 700 Horses came..to remount the Regiments of Dragoons. 1726Ibid. 6438/1 The King has given Order to the Officers of his Cavalry to remount their Troops. 1816F. H. Naylor Hist. Germany II. xxi. 290 This sum..proved of incalculable benefit to the Swedes, because it enabled them to remount their cavalry. 1892in A. E. Lee Hist. Columbus (Ohio) II. 182, I was to make an extensive raid..to capture horses to assist in remounting Grierson's cavalry.
3.
†a. To rise again to, regain (a state or point).
1486Bk. St. Albans C iij, When ye se yowre hawke may not endew her meete nor remounte her astate. 1647Ward Simp. Cobler (1843) 50 He remounts his proper pitch.
b. To ascend or go up (a place or thing) again.
1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. xi. (1626) 233 Iris with-drew;..And by her painted Bow remounts the skies. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 600 The Sun..That week the virgin balance shou'd remount. a1711Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 274 Both wing'd and rob'd in Cloud, remount the Skie. 1784T. Hutchins Descr. Louisiana, etc. 5 He afterwards remounted that river, and returned to Canada. 1812W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXVIII. 503 Literature was destined to remount the ladder of instruction..with as gradual and lingering a progression. 1884Manch. Exam. 16 Aug. 4/8 We must beg them to remount the stream to its ancient source.
c. To mount (a horse, etc.) again.
1788Gibbon Decl. & F. l. V. 211 He..descended to Jerusalem, remounted the Borak [etc.]. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) ii. xxvi, Your horse will afterwards keep you dancing for an hour..before he will suffer you to remount him. 1868Queen Victoria Life Highl. 38 Albert got off.., walked on a little, and then remounted his poney.
II. intr.
4. To mount, rise, or move upwards again; to make a fresh ascent.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxiii. 85 She can..tarye & areste sodaynli the flodes & grete ryuers,..and make their bygge stremes rennyng to remounte vpwarde. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1535) C b, It is necessarie, by time to remount to very hie thinges, lest it bow vnto lowe and yl thinges. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 44 He backe returning by the Yvorie dore Remounted up as light as chearefull Larke. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena v. 144 Hee gave them no time to remount aboord their Galleyes. 1684R. Waller Nat. Exper. 93 This Liquor..began to remount in the Neck of the Vessel. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Conserve, There will stick to the Scummer..a small thread or Filament, which remounts. 1816Byron Ch. Har. iii. lxxiii, To sorrow I was cast, To act and suffer, but remount at last With a fresh pinion.
5. To get on horseback again. † Also const. to.
1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ix. 15 Tho hastily remounting to his steed He forth issew'd. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 236 Three..of his train alight from horse..and so the Gentlemen remount. 1776R. Chandler Trav. Greece (1825) II. 208, I remounted, intending to inquire at Marathon. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxx. (1862) VI. 265 Xenophon then remounted and ascended the hill on horseback.
6. To go back, in the course of an investigation or study, to a certain point, period, etc.
1738Bolingbroke Patriot King Wks. 1754 III. 44 The shortest and the surest method of arriving at real knowledge is..to remount to first principles. 1776Adam Smith W.N. iii. iv. (1869) I. 413 Without remounting to the remote antiquities of either the French or English monarchies, we may find in much later times [etc.]. 1837Sir W. Hamilton Metaph. xlv. (1870) II. 495 In detail, we can rarely account for anything; for we soon remount to facts which lie beyond our powers of analysis and observation. 1884Law Times Rep. LI. 531/2 Without remounting to the Roman law, or discussing the refinements of scholastic jurisprudence.
b. To go back in time to a certain date.
1831Brewster Nat. Magic xii. (1833) 301 The kindred art of walking on burning coals..remounts to the same antiquity. 1844Lingard Anglo-Sax. Ch. (1858) I. vii. 301 A practice which remounts to the first ages of Christianity.
c. To go back to a source.
1839tr. Lamartine's Trav. East 17/1 This life thus remounts directly to the source from whence it emanates. 1855W. H. Mill Applic. Panth. Princ. (1861) 211 The Mosaic law of levirate or adoption..certifies that all must remount to the same natural parent.
Hence reˈmounting vbl. n.
1714Fr. Bk. of Rates 208 The bringing in Horses for the remounting of their Troopers. |