CPage 448
- English Word Counteractive Definition Tending to counteract.
- English Word Counteractive Definition One who, or that which, counteracts.
- English Word Counterbalance Definition To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
- English Word Counterbalance Definition A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
- English Word Counterbalance Definition A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel
- English Word Counterbalance Definition A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
- English Word Counterbalanced Definition of Counterbalance
- English Word Counterbalancing Definition of Counterbalance
- English Word Counterbore Definition A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
- English Word Counterbore Definition A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
- English Word Counterbore Definition To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
- English Word Counterbrace Definition To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
- English Word Counterbrace Definition To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
- English Word Counterbuff Definition To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
- English Word Counterbuff Definition A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
- English Word Countercast Definition A trick; a delusive contrivance.
- English Word Countercaster Definition A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
- English Word Counterchange Definition To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
- English Word Counterchange Definition To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.
- English Word Counterchange Definition Exchange; reciprocation.
- English Word Counterchanged Definition of Counterchange
- English Word Counterchanged Definition Exchanged.
- English Word Counterchanged Definition Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
- English Word Counterchanging Definition of Counterchange
- English Word Countercharge Definition An opposing charge.
- English Word Countercharm Definition To destroy the effect of a charm upon.
- English Word Countercharm Definition That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.
- English Word Countercharmed Definition of Countercharm
- English Word Countercharming Definition of Countercharm
- English Word Countercheck Definition To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.