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Counteractive Coun`ter·act"ive adjective Tending to counteract.

Counteractive Coun`ter·act"ive noun One who, or that which, counteracts.

Counteractively Coun`ter·act"ive·ly adverb By counteraction.

Counterbalance Coun`ter·bal"ance transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Counterbalanced (- a nst); present participle & verbal noun Counterbalancing .] To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.

The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder.
Boyle.

The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature.
Sir W. Hamilton.

Counterbalance Coun"ter·bal`ance noun A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another ; as: (a) 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 . (b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.

Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it.
Locke.

Counterbore Coun"ter·bore` noun 1. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.

2. 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 Coun`ter·bore" transitive verb To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.

Counterbrace Coun"ter·brace` transitive verb 1. (Nautical) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e. , to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.

2. (Engineering) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.

Counterbuff Coun`ter·buff" transitive verb To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.

Counterbuff Coun"ter·buff` noun A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

Countercast Coun"ter·cast` noun A trick; a delusive contrivance. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Countercaster Coun"ter·cast`er noun A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.

Counterchange Coun`ter·change" (koun`tẽr*chānj) transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Counterchanged (-ch?njd"); present participle & verbal noun Counterchanging .] 1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.

2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged , adjective , 2.

Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor
Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Tennyson.

Counterchange Coun"ter·change` (koun"tẽr*chānj`) noun Exchange; reciprocation.

Counterchanged Coun`ter·changed" adjective 1. Exchanged.

2. (Her.) 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 Coun"ter·charge` noun An opposing charge.

Countercharm Coun`ter·charm" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Countercharmed (-ch?rmd`); present participle & verbal noun Countercharming .] To destroy the effect of a charm upon.

Countercharm Coun"ter·charm` noun That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.

Countercheck Coun`ter·check" transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Counterchecked (-ch?ckt"); present participle & verbal noun Counterchecking .] To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.

Countercheck Coun"ter·check` noun 1. A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.

2. Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.

The system of checks and counterchecks .
J. H. Newton.

Counterclaim Coun"ter·claim` (-klām`) noun (Law) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

Countercurrent Coun"ter·cur`rent adjective Running in an opposite direction.

Countercurrent Coun"ter·cur`rent noun A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

Counterdraw Coun`ter·draw" (koun`tẽr*dra") transitive verb [ imperfect Counterdrew (- dru"); past participle Counterdrawn (-dr?n"); present participle & verbal noun Counterdrawing .] To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.

Counterfaisance Coun"ter·fai"sance noun See Counterfesance . [ Obsolete]

Counterfeit Coun"ter·feit adjective [ French contrefait , past participle of contrefaire to counterfeit; contre (L. contra ) + faire to make, from Latin facere . See Counter , adverb , and Fact .]

1. Representing by imitation or likeness; having a resemblance to something else; portrayed.

Look here upon this picture, and on this-
The counterfeit presentment of two brothers.
Shak.

2. 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. "No counterfeit gem." Robinson (More's Utopia).

3. Assuming the appearance of something; false; spurious; deceitful; hypocritical; as, a counterfeit philanthropist. "An arrant counterfeit rascal." Shak.

Syn. -- Forged; fictitious; spurious; false.

Counterfeit Coun"ter·feit noun 1. That which resembles or is like another thing; a likeness; a portrait; a counterpart.

Thou drawest a counterfeit
Best in all Athens.
Shak.

Even Nature's self envied the same,
And grudged to see the counterfeit should shame
The thing itself.
Spenser.

2. 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 .

Never call a true piece of gold a counterfeit .
Shak.

Some of these counterfeits are fabricated with such exquisite taste and skill, that it is the achievement of criticism to distinguish them from originals.
Macaulay.

3. One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.

I fear thou art another counterfeit ;
And yet, in faith, thou bear'st thee like a king.
Shak.

Counterfeit Coun"ter·feit transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Counterfeited ; present participle & verbal noun Counterfeiting .] 1. To imitate, or put on a semblance of; to mimic; as, to counterfeit the voice of another person.

Full well they laughed with counterfeited glee
At all his jokes, for many a joke had he.
Goldsmith.

2. 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 Coun"ter·feit intransitive verb 1. To carry on a deception; to dissemble; to feign; to pretend.

The knave counterfeits well; a good knave.
Shak.

2. To make counterfeits.

Counterfeiter Coun"ter·feit`er noun 1. One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger.

The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters .
Camden.

2. One who assumes a false appearance or semblance; one who makes false pretenses.

Counterfeiters of devotion.
Sherwood.

Counterfeitly Coun"ter·feit`ly adverb By forgery; falsely.

Counterfesance Coun"ter·fe`sance noun [ Old French contrefaisance , from contrefaire . See Counterfeit , adjective ] The act of forging; forgery. [ Obsolete] [ Written also counterfaisance .]

Counterfleury Coun"ter·fleu`ry adjective [ French contrefleuri .] (Her.) Counterflory.

Counterflory Coun"ter·flo`ry adjective [ See Counterfleury .] (Her.) 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 Coun"ter·foil` (-foil) noun [ Counter- + foil a leaf.]

1. 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 . [ Eng.]

2. 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 Coun"ter·force` noun An opposing force.

Counterfort Coun"ter·fort` noun 1. (Fort.) A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

2. A spur or projection of a mountain. Imp. Dict.

Countergage Coun"ter·gage` (-gāj`) noun (Carp.) 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. Knight.

Counterglow Coun"ter·glow` noun (Astron.) 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 .

Counterguard Coun"ter·guard` (koun"tẽr*gärd`) noun (Fort.) 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 Coun"ter·ir`ri·tant noun , Coun"ter*ir`ri*ta"tion noun See Counter irritant , etc., under Counter , adjective

Counterirritate Coun"ter·ir"ri·tate transitive verb (Medicine) To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.

Counterjumper Coun"ter·jump`er noun A salesman in a shop; a shopman; -- used contemptuously. [ Slang]

Counterlath Coun"ter·lath` noun (Building) (a) A batten laid lengthwise between two rafters to afford a bearing for laths laid crosswise. (b) Any lath laid without actual measurement between two gauged laths. (c) Any of a series of laths nailed to the timbers to raise the sheet lathing above their surface to afford a key for plastering. (d) 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.

Counterman Coun"ter·man (koun"tẽr*m a n) noun ; plural Countermen (- m e n). A man who attends at the counter of a shop to sell goods. [ Eng.]

Countermand Coun`ter·mand" (koun`tẽr*mȧnd") transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Countermanded ; present participle & verbal noun Countermanding .] [ French contremander ; contre (L. contra ) + mander to command, from Latin mandare . Confer Mandate .] 1. 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.

2. To prohibit; to forbid. [ Obsolete]

Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodies.
Harvey.

3. To oppose; to revoke the command of.

For us to alter anything, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him.
Hooker.

Countermand Coun"ter·mand (koun"tẽr*mȧnd) noun A contrary order; revocation of a former order or command.

Have you no countermand for Claudio yet,
But he must die to-morrow?
Shak.

Countermandable Coun`ter·mand"a·ble adjective Capable of being countermanded; revocable. Bacon.

Countermarch Coun`ter·march" intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Countermarched (-m?rcht"); present participle & verbal noun Countermarching .] (Mil.) To march back, or to march in reversed order.

The two armies marched and countermarched , drew near and receded.
Macaulay.

Countermarch Coun"ter·march` noun 1. A marching back; retrocession.

2. (Mil.) An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front one, either with or without changing the right to the left.

3. A change of measures; alteration of conduct.

Such countermarches and retractions as we do not willingly impute to wisdom.
T. Burnet.

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