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Webster 1913 Edition

Amount

A-mount′

,
Verb.
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
,
Noun.
]
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
.

A-mount′

,
Verb.
T.
To signify; to amount to.
[Obs.]

A-mount′

,
Noun.
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.

Webster 1828 Edition

Amount

AMOUNT'

,
Verb.
I.
[L. mons, a mountain, or its root.]
1.
To rise to or reach, by an accumulation of particulars, into an aggregate whole; to compose in the whole; as, the interest on the several sums amounts to fifty dollars.
2.
To rise, reach, or extend to, in effect, or substance; to result in, by consequence, when all things are considered; as, the testimony of these witnesses amounts to very little.

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