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 swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.

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.

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.

a marrow squash plant whose fruit are eaten when small; -- called also zucchini.

A messenger sent with haste to convey letters or dispatches, usually on public business.

A South American bird, of the genus Aramus, allied to the rails.

To run as in a race, or in hunting; to pursue the sport of coursing; as, the sportsmen coursed over the flats of Lancashire.

Hunted; as, a coursed hare.

One who courses or hunts.

A space in the galley; a part of the hatches.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent.

To play the lover; to woo; as, to go courting.

An inferior court of civil jurisdiction, attached to a manor, and held by the steward; a baron's court; -- now fallen into disuse.

The artifices, intrigues, and plottings, at courts.

A movable sideboard or buffet, on which plate and other articles of luxury were displayed on special ocasions.

A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet.

To subject to trial by a court-martial.

Sticking plaster made by coating taffeta or silk on one side with some adhesive substance, commonly a mixture of isinglass and glycerin.

Bred, or educated, at court; polished; courtly.

Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant.

In a courteous manner.

The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy.

A short coat of coarse cloth.

One who courts; one who plays the lover, or who solicits in marriage; one who flatters and cajoles.

A woman who prostitutes herself for hire; a prostitute; a harlot.

Harlotry.

To treat with civility.

A house in which established courts are held, or a house appropriated to courts and public meetings.

One who is in attendance at the court of a prince; one who has an appointment at court.

The manners of a courtier; courtliness.

After the manner of a court; elegant; polite; courtly.

The quality of being courtly; elegance or dignity of manners.

A sycophantic courtier.

In the manner of courts; politely; gracefully; elegantly.

The act of paying court, with the intent to solicit a favor.

A court or inclosure attached to a house.

A kind of food used by the natives of Western Africa, made of millet flour with flesh, and leaves of the baobab; -- called also lalo.

A favorite dish in Barbary. See Couscous.

Allied; akin.