CPage 450
- English Word Counterfoil Definition That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; -- called also counterstock.
- English Word Counterfoil Definition The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued.
- English Word Counterforce Definition An opposing force.
- English Word Counterfort Definition A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
- English Word Counterfort Definition A spur or projection of a mountain.
- English Word Countergage Definition An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made.
- English Word Counterguard Definition A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire.
- English Word Counterirritant Definition Alt. of Counterirritation
- English Word Counterirritate Definition To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
- English Word Counterirritation Definition See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.
- English Word Counterjumper Definition A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.
- English Word Counterman Definition A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.
- English Word Countermand Definition To revoke (a former command); to cancel or rescind by giving an order contrary to one previously given; as, to countermand an order for goods.
- English Word Countermand Definition To prohibit; to forbid.
- English Word Countermand Definition To oppose; to revoke the command of.
- English Word Countermand Definition A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.
- English Word Countermandable Definition Capable of being countermanded; revocable.
- English Word Countermanded Definition of Countermand
- English Word Countermanding Definition of Countermand
- English Word Countermarch Definition To march back, or to march in reversed order.
- English Word Countermarch Definition A marching back; retrocession.
- English Word Countermarch Definition An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.
- English Word Countermarch Definition A change of measures; alteration of conduct.
- English Word Countermarched Definition of Countermarch
- English Word Countermarching Definition of Countermarch
- English Word Countermark Definition A mark or token added to those already existing, in order to afford security or proof; as, an additional or special mark put upon a package of goods belonging to several persons, that it may not be opened except in the presence of all; a mark added to that of an artificer of gold or silver work by the Goldsmiths' Company of London, to attest the standard quality of the gold or silver; a mark added to an ancient coin or medal, to show either its change of value or that it was taken from an enemy.
- English Word Countermark Definition An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age.
- English Word Countermark Definition To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.
- English Word Countermen Definition of Counterman
- English Word Countermine Definition An underground gallery excavated to intercept and destroy the mining of an enemy.