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)
- (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)
- A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.
References
- “overmount”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.