overmount
A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.
Adjective
- Mounted over something else.
Antonyms: undermount
Origin
From over- + mount. Compare surmount.
Noun
- A piece of shaped cardboard used to prevent the glass of the frame from lying too closely upon an engraving or a picture.
Forms
Verb
- To tower over; to go or rise higher than.
- the pretty purple ground-nut, which, despising its name, overmounts the tallest shrubs - 1845, Sylvester Judd, Margaret: a Tale of Real and Ideal: