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To make of equal weight; to balance equally; to counterbalance; to equiponderate.

Equality of weight or force; an equipoise or a state of rest produced by the mutual counteraction of two or more forces.

Counterpoise. The equipoise to the clergy being removed. Buckle.

To make equal in weight; to counterbalance. "More than equiponderated the declension in that direction." De Quincey.

To be equivalent or equal to; to counterbalance. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

The side of the ditch next the parapet; -- same as scarp, and opposed to counterscarp.

The glacis of the counterscarp, or the slope of the parapet of the covered way toward the country.

Disenchantment by a countercharm. [Obs.] Gayton.

itten engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt. Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter. -- Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.

by carefully avoiding decisive contests, foiled Hannibal, harassing his army by marches, countermarches, and ambuscades; a policy of delays and cautions.

A species of counterpoint with a drone bass.

irmness; to resist, or to meet for the purpose of stopping or opposing; to confront; to encounter; as, to face an enemy in the field of battale. I'll face This tempest, and deserve the name of king. Dryden.

Not genuine or real; assumed or designed to deceive; counterfeit; hypocritical; as, false tears; false modesty; false colors; false jewelry. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. Shak.

A counterfeit; a false appearance; an imposture. For his molten image is falsehood. Jer. x. 14. No falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper. Milton.

lse or artificial voice; that voice in a man which lies above his natural voice; the male counter tenor or alto voice. See Head voice, under Voice.

Capable of being falsified, counterfeited, or corrupted. Johnson.

The act of falsifying, or making false; a counterfeiting; the giving to a thing an appearance of something which it is not. To counterfeit the living image of king in his person exceedeth all falsifications. Bacon.

To counterfeit; to forge; as, to falsify coin.

ly under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.

To forge or counterfeit. [Obs.] Shak. Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it.