An opposing charge.

That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.

A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.

A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

in the opposite direction to that in which the hands of a clock rotate, as viewed from in front of the clock face; -- of rotatory motion or spiral direction. Opposite of clockwise, or right-handed

A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.

contrary to fact; -- of assertions, ideas, assumptions.

the quality of being contrary to fact.

See Counterfesance.

To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.

By forgery; falsely.

The act of forging; forgery.

Counterflory.

Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.

An opposing force.

A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

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.

An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.

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.

To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.

A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.

A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise. Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths. Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering. One of many laths used in preparing one side of a partition or framed wall, when the other side has been covered in and finished.

A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.

A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

Capable of being countermanded; revocable.

A marching back; retrocession.

To apply a countermark to; as, to countermark silverware; to countermark a horse's teeth.

To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.

To move in a contrary direction to.

A movement in opposition to another.

To fortify with a wall behind another wall.

Contrary to nature.

A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart.

A part corresponding to another part; anything which answers, or corresponds, to another; a copy; a duplicate; a facsimile.

Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.

To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

A plot or artifice opposed to another.

A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.

A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.

The exact opposite.

To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.

A counter account. See Control.

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another.

See counterscarp.

The exterior slope or wall of the ditch; -- sometimes, the whole covered way, beyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

To seal or ratify with another or others.

To give additional security to or for.

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

The signature of a secretary or other officer to a writing signed by a principal or superior, to attest its authenticity.

a second confirming signature endorsing a document already signed.

An enlargement of the upper part of a hole, forming a cavity or depression for receiving the head of a screw or bolt.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against.

A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.

See Counterfoil.

A stroke or blow in return.

Chamfered at the top; -- said of a hole.

A term or word which is the opposite of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, /foe/ is the counterterm of /friend/.

The resistance of a horse, that interrupts his cadence and the measure of his manege, occasioned by a bad horseman, or the bad temper of the horse.

Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.

Same as Countertrippant.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties.

Power or value sufficient to obviate any effect; equal weight, strength, or value; equivalent; compensation; requital.

See Contravallation.

An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other.

To vote in opposition to; to balance or overcome by voting; to outvote.

To wait or watch for; to be on guard against.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.

To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

To work in opposition to; to counteract.

The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business; the offices used by the accountants of a business.

Incapable of being counted; not ascertainable; innumerable.

An advocate or professional pleader; one who counted for his client, that is, orally pleaded his cause.

A merchant's office; a countinghouse.

To counterplead.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound).

Having the appearance and manners of a rustic; rude; as, countrified clothes.

To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic.

Pertaining to the regions remote from a city; rural; rustic; as, a country life; a country town; the country party, as opposed to city.

Same as Prison base.

See Contradance.

of a style associated with rural areas; as, country-style sausage.

same as countrified.

An inhabitant or native of a region.

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.

extending throughout a country or nation as a whole; as, a countrywide fund-raising campaign.

A woman born, or dwelling, in the country, as opposed to the city; a woman born or dwelling in the same country with another native or inhabitant.

An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.

including or occurring in all parts of a county; as, a countywide war on drugs; countywide elections.

To make a coup.

Culpable.

The front compartment of a French diligence; also, the front compartment (usually for three persons) of a car or carriage on British railways.

Any position giving the enemy such advantage that the troops occupying it must either surrender or be cut to pieces.

Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.

A motion in dancing, when one leg is a little bent, and raised from the floor, and with the other a forward motion is made.

To come together as male and female; to copulate.

One who makes it his business to marry beggars to each other.

A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised.

joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

Union; combination; a coupling; a pair.

One who couples; that which couples, as a link, ring, or shackle, to connect cars.

Two taken together; a pair or couple; especially two lines of verse that rhyme with each other.

The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

A certificate of interest due, printed at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.

A passage cut through the glacis to facilitate sallies by the besieged.

To inspire with courage; to encourage.

Possessing, or characterized by, courage; brave; bold.

In a courageous manner.

The quality of being courageous; courage.

A piece of music in triple time; also, a lively dance; a coranto.

A sprightly dance; a coranto; a courant.

A skin disease, common in India, in which there is perpetual itching and eruption, esp. of the groin, breast, armpits, and face.

To bend; to stop; to bow.

See Anim/, n.

A square piece of linen used formerly by women instead of a cap; a kerchief.