v. [UN-2 5, 8.]
1. trans. To unfix and take down or remove.
a. 1680. Butler, Rem. (1759), I. 23. Others conceiv’d it much more fit T’ unmount the Tube, and open it.
1885. C. G. W. Lock, Workshop Receipts, Ser. IV. 397/1. If the print be a mounted one, it is by no means necessary to unmount it previously to treatment.
2. To dismount. Also intr.
1787. Generous Attachment, II. 131. I immediately unmounted, and giving my horse his liberty, wandered about the country.
1892. Schoolmaster, 26 March, 519/2. The German Emperor has had to unmount his high horse, and abandon the … Education Bill.
