A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.
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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.
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.
A first cousin. See Note under Cousin, 1.
Relationship; kinship.
The state or condition of a cousin; also, the collective body of cousins; kinsfolk.
Like or becoming a cousin.
A body or collection of cousins; the whole number of persons who stand in the relation of cousins to a given person or persons.
The relationship of cousins; state of being cousins; cousinhood.
A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch. That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute.
A knife; a dagger.
Could; was able; knew or known; understood.
high fashion designing and dressmaking.
someone who designs clothing.
A custom, among certain barbarous tribes, that when a woman gives birth to a child her husband takes to his bed, as if ill.
An incubator for sickly infants, esp. those prematurely born.
a statistical measure of the relationship of two variables, formed by multiplying the difference of each variable from its mean, both variables being measured at the same time, and averaging all such products.
A function involving the coefficients and the variables of a quantic, and such that when the quantic is lineally transformed the same function of the new variables and coefficients shall be equal to the old function multiplied by a factor. An invariant is a like function involving only the coefficients of the quantic.
A boy or man of any age or station.
A native sulphide of copper, occuring in masses of a dark blue color; -- hence called indigo copper.
Fit; proper; suitable.
Fitly; suitably.
To grant or promise by covenant.
The person in whose favor a covenant is made.
One who makes a covenant.
Belonging to a covenant. Specifically, belonging to the Scotch Covenanters.
The party who makes a covenant.
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