A*mount" , n.
1. The sum
total of two or more
sums or quantities; the aggregate; the whole quantity; a totality; as, the amount of 7 and 9 is 16; the
amount of a bill; the
amount of this year's revenue.
2. The effect, substance, value, significance, or result; the sum; as, the
amount of the testimony is this.
The whole amount of that enormous fame.
Pope.
A*mount" , v. t. To signify; to amount to. [Obs.]
A*mount" (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Amounted;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Amounting.]
[OF. amonter to increase, advance, ascend, fr.
amont (equiv. to L. ad montem to the mountain) upward, F. amont up the river. See Mount, n.] 1. To go up; to ascend. [Obs.]
So up he rose, and thence amounted straight.
Spenser.
2. To rise or reach
by an accumulation of particular sums or quantities;
to come (to) in the aggregate or whole; -- with to or unto.
3. To rise, reach, or extend in effect, substance, or influence; to be equivalent; to come practically (to); as, the
testimony amounts to
very little.
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