CPage 671
- English Word Counter-couchant Definition Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
- English Word Counter-courant Definition Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
- English Word Counter-paly Definition 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.
- English Word Counter-roll Definition A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll.
- English Word Counter-salient Definition Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.
- English Word Counteract Definition 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.
- English Word Counteracted Definition of Counteract
- English Word Counteractibely Definition By counteraction.
- English Word Counteracting Definition of Counteract
- English Word Counteraction Definition Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
- English Word Counteractive Definition Tending to counteract.
- English Word Counteractive Definition One who, or that which, counteracts.
- English Word Counterbalance Definition To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
- English Word Counterbalance Definition A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another
- English Word Counterbalance Definition 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
- English Word Counterbalance Definition A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
- English Word Counterbalanced Definition of Counterbalance
- English Word Counterbalancing Definition of Counterbalance
- English Word Counterbore Definition A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
- English Word Counterbore Definition 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.