Counter (v. t.) Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
Counter (v. t.) A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
Counter (v. t.) A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
Counter (adv.) Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
Counter (adv.) In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
Counter (adv.) At or against the front or face.
Counter (a.) Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
Counter (adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
Counter (adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
Counter (adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
Counter (adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot.
Counter (n.) An encounter.
Counter (v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
Counteracted (imp. & p. p.) of Counteract
Counteracting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counteract
Counteract (v. t.) 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.
Counteraction (n.) Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
Counteractive (a.) Tending to counteract.
Counteractive (n.) One who, or that which, counteracts.
Counteractibely (adv.) By counteraction.
Counterbalanced (imp. & p. p.) of Counterbalance
Counterbalancing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterbalance
Counterbalance (v. t.) To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
Counterbalance (n.) A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
Counterbalance (n.) 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
Counterbalance (n.) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Counterbore (n.) A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
Counterbore (n.) A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
Counterbore (v. t.) To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
Counter brace () The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
Counter brace () A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
Counterbrace (v. t.) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
Counterbuff (v. t.) To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front.
Counterbuff (n.) A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
Countercast (n.) A trick; a delusive contrivance.
Countercaster (n.) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Counterchanged (imp. & p. p.) of Counterchange
Counterchanging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterchange
Counterchange (v. t.) To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
Counterchange (v. t.) To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.
Counterchange (n.) Exchange; reciprocation.
Counterchanged (a.) Exchanged.
Counterchanged (a.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
Countercharge (n.) An opposing charge.
Countercharmed (imp. & p. p.) of Countercharm
Countercharming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countercharm
Countercharm (v. t.) To destroy the effect of a charm upon.
Countercharm (n.) That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.
Counterchecked (imp. & p. p.) of Countercheck
Counterchecking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countercheck
Countercheck (v. t.) To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
Countercheck (n.) A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.
Countercheck (n.) Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.
Counterclaim (n.) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
Counter-compony (a.) See Compony.
Counter-couchant (a.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
Counter-courant (a.) Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
Countercurrent (a.) Running in an opposite direction.
Countercurrent (n.) A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
Counterdrew (imp.) of Counterdraw
Counterdrawn (p. p.) of Counterdraw
Counterdrawing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterdraw
Counterdraw (v. t.) To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.
Counterfaisance (n.) See Counterfesance.
Counterfeit (adv.) Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.
Counterfeit (adv.) Fabricated in imitation of something else, with a view to defraud by passing the false copy for genuine or original; as, counterfeit antiques; counterfeit coin.
Counterfeit (adv.) Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist.
Counterfeit (n.) That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.
Counterfeit (n.) That which is made in imitation of something, with a view to deceive by passing the false for the true; as, the bank note was a counterfeit.
Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Counterfeited (imp. & p. p.) of Counterfeit
Counterfeiting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Counterfeit
Counterfeit (v. t.) To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.
Counterfeit (v. t.) To imitate with a view to deceiving, by passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.
Counterfeit (v. i.) To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.
Counterfeit (v. i.) To make counterfeits.
Counterfeiter (n.) One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.
Counterfeiter (n.) One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.
Counterfeitly (adv.) By forgery; falsely.
Counterfesance (a.) The act of forging; forgery.
Counterfleury (a.) Counterflory.
Counterflory (a.) 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.
Counterfoil (n.) 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.
Counterfoil (n.) 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.
Counterforce (n.) An opposing force.
Counterfort (n.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.
Counterfort (n.) A spur or projection of a mountain.
Countergage (n.) 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.
Counterguard (n.) 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.
Counterirritant (n.) Alt. of Counterirritation
Counterirritation (n.) See Counter irritant, etc., under Counter, a.
Counterirritate (v. t.) To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
Counterjumper (n.) A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously.
Countermen (pl. ) of Counterman
Counterman (n.) A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods.
Countermanded (imp. & p. p.) of Countermand
Countermanding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Countermand
Countermand (v. t.) 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.