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

  1. Mounted over something else.

    Antonyms: undermount

Origin

From over- + mount. Compare surmount.

Noun

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

Forms

overmounts

Verb

  1. 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:

Forms

overmounts overmounting overmounted