See Cowhage.
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Was, should be, or would be, able, capable, or susceptible. Used as an auxiliary, in the past tense or in the conditional present.
A stream a stream of lava. Also, in the Western United States, the bed of a stream, even if dry, when deep and having inclined sides; distinguished from a ca/on, which has precipitous sides.
Color; -- chiefly used in a few French phrases, as couler de rose, color of rose; and hence, adjectively, rose-colored; roseate.
A fluting in a sword blade.
A deep gorge; a gully.
The standard unit of quantity in electrical measurements. It is the quantity of electricity conveyed in one second by the current produced by an electro-motive force of one volt acting in a circuit having a resistance of one ohm, or the quantity transferred by one amp/re in one second. Formerly called weber.
Same as Colter.
The puffin.
A disease affecting grapes, esp. in California, manifested by the premature dropping of the fruit.
Relating to, derived from, or like, the Dipterix odorata, a tree of Guiana.
The concrete essence of the tonka bean, the fruit of Dipterix (formerly Coumarouna) odorata and consisting essentially of coumarin proper, which is a white crystalline substance, C9H6O2, of vanilla-like odor, regarded as an anhydride of coumaric acid, and used in flavoring. Coumarin in also made artificially.
The tree (Dipteryx odorata) which bears the tonka bean; also, the bean itself.
One who belongs to a council; one who gives an opinion.
the position of council member.
A member of a council, especially of the common council of a city; a councilor.
A member of a council.
To give advice to; to advice, admonish, or instruct, as a person.
Willing to receive counsel or follow advice.
direction or advice as to a decision or course of action.
same as counselor.
the position of counselor; same as counselorship.
One who counsels; an adviser.
a lawyer who pleads cases in court.
The function and rank or office of a counselor.
A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.
Capable of being numbered.
To encourage; to favor; to approve; to aid; to abet.
One who countenances, favors, or supports.
To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
A counterpoise.
A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. a.
See Compony.
Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.
A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage.
Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coat of arms.
the aspect of counterintelligence designed to detect and prevent subversive activities.
To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
One who, or that which, counteracts.
By counteraction.
a rival attraction.
A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another 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 A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
brought into equipoise by means of a weight or force that offsets another.
a vigorous and unrestrained verbal response; as, her tirade provoked a counterblast from her husband.
To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
A trick; a delusive contrivance.
A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Exchange; reciprocation.
Exchanged.
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 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.
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