overmount

English

Etymology

From over- +‎ mount. Compare surmount.

Verb

overmount (third-person singular simple present overmounts, present participle overmounting, simple past and past participle overmounted)

  1. (transitive) To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
    • 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal:
      the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs

Noun

overmount (plural overmounts)

  1. A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.

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