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▪ I. overmount, v.|əʊvəˈmaʊnt|
[over- 1, 26.]
1. trans. To mount or rise above, transcend.
1370Robt. Cicyle 63 For pryde wolde..Ovyr-mownte Goddys dygnyté. 1552Huloet, Ouermounte, transcendo. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, ii. iii. 94 With your Theame, I could O're-mount the Larke. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 5/1 While from yon lowly roof, whose curling smoke O'ermounts the mist, is heard at intervals The voice of psalms.
2. intr. To mount too high.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. vii. 15 And in that Sea of Blood, my Boy did drench His ouer-mounting Spirit. 1592Harvey Four Lett. Wks. (Grosart) I. 193 How many..youthes, haue in ouermounting, most ruefully dismounted?
▪ II. overmount, n.|ˈəʊvəˌmaʊnt|
[over- 8.]
A piece of stiff paper or board cut to correspond with the margin of a picture, so as to fit round it when framed and glazed; a mount.
1890in Cent. Dict. |