CPage 670
- English Word Counter Definition A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
- English Word Counter Definition Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
- English Word Counter Definition A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
- English Word Counter Definition A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- English Word Counter Definition 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.
- English Word Counter Definition Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
- English Word Counter Definition In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
- English Word Counter Definition At or against the front or face.
- English Word Counter Definition Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
- English Word Counter Definition The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- English Word Counter Definition 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.
- English Word Counter Definition The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- English Word Counter Definition The back leather or heel part of a boot.
- English Word Counter Definition An encounter.
- English Word Counter Definition To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
- English Word Counter brace Definition The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
- English Word Counter brace Definition A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
- English Word Counter tenor Definition One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
- English Word Counter weight Definition A counterpoise.
- English Word Counter-compony Definition See Compony.