CPage 677
- English Word Counterpassant Definition Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.
- English Word Counterplead Definition To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
- English Word Counterplot Definition To oppose, as another plot, by plotting; to attempt to frustrate, as a stratagem, by stratagem.
- English Word Counterplot Definition A plot or artifice opposed to another.
- English Word Counterplotted Definition of Counterplot
- English Word Counterplotting Definition of Counterplot
- English Word Counterpoint Definition An opposite point
- English Word Counterpoint Definition The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody
- English Word Counterpoint Definition The art of polyphony, or composite melody, i. e., melody not single, but moving attended by one or more related melodies.
- English Word Counterpoint Definition Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.
- English Word Counterpoint Definition A coverlet; a cover for a bed, often stitched or broken into squares; a counterpane. See 1st Counterpane.
- English Word Counterpoise Definition To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
- English Word Counterpoise Definition To act against with equal power; to balance.
- English Word Counterpoise Definition A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
- English Word Counterpoise Definition An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
- English Word Counterpoise Definition The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.
- English Word Counterpoised Definition of Counterpoise
- English Word Counterpoising Definition of Counterpoise
- English Word Counterpole Definition The exact opposite.
- English Word Counterponderate Definition To equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.