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A mountain ridge or chain.

See Legislature, Portugal.

osition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.

Action in opposition; hindrance resistance. [They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality. Johnson.

Tending to counteract.

By counteraction.

TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.

The aggregate of risks covered by the terms of a contract of insurance.

See Culrage.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large family of plants of which the sedge is the type.

hes, and others having ten arms or tentacles; -- called also Decapoda. [Written also Decacera.] See Dibranchiata.

Capable of being deciphered; as, old writings not decipherable.

The act of becoming degenerate; a growing worse. Willful degeneracy from goodness. Tillotson.

ing lost in goodness; deteriorated; degraded; unworthy; base; low. Faint-hearted and degenerate king. Shak. A degenerate and degraded state. Milton. Degenerate from their ancient blood. Swift. These degenerate days. Pope. I had planted thee a noble vine . . . : how then art thou turned into the degenerate plant of a st…

In a degenerate manner; unworthily.

Degeneracy.

rowing worse, or the state of having become worse; decline; degradation; debasement; degeneracy; deterioration. Our degeneration and apostasy. Bates.

A believer in the theory of degeneration, or hereditary degradation of type; as, the degenerationists hold that savagery is the result of degeneration from a superior state.

Undergoing or producing degeneration; tending to degenerate.

See Dinoceras.