CPage 447
- English Word Counter Definition A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
- English Word Counter Definition Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
- English Word Counter Definition A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
- English Word Counter Definition A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- English Word Counter Definition A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
- English Word Counter Definition Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
- English Word Counter Definition In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
- English Word Counter Definition At or against the front or face.
- English Word Counter Definition Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
- English Word Counter Definition The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- English Word Counter Definition Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
- English Word Counter Definition The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- English Word Counter Definition The back leather or heel part of a boot.
- English Word Counter Definition An encounter.
- English Word Counter Definition To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
- English Word Counter brace Definition The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
- English Word Counter brace Definition A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
- English Word Counter tenor Definition One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
- English Word Counter weight Definition A counterpoise.
- English Word Counter-compony Definition See Compony.
- English Word Counter-couchant Definition Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
- English Word Counter-courant Definition Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
- English Word Counter-paly Definition Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.
- English Word Counter-roll Definition A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
- English Word Counter-salient Definition Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
- English Word Counteract Definition To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
- English Word Counteracted Definition of Counteract
- English Word Counteractibely Definition By counteraction.
- English Word Counteracting Definition of Counteract
- English Word Counteraction Definition Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.