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To match one's self against; to meet; to encounter. I love to cope him in these sullen fits. Shak. They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down. Shak.

uage; corrupt judges. At what ease Might corrupt minds procure knaves as corrupt To swear against you. Shak.

ary, by exposing the gross corruptions of monasteries, . . . to exite popular indignation against them. Hallam. They abstained from some of the worst methods of corruption usual to their party in its earlier days. Bancroft.

mutual advising; consultation. All the chief priest and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus, to put him to death. Matt. xxvii. 1.

At or against the front or face. [R.] Which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier. Sandys.

A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as:

To oppose; to revoke the command of. For us to alter anuthing, is to lift ourselves against God; and, as it were, to countermand him. Hooker.

other sratagem or project is defeated. Thinking himself contemned, knowing no countermine against contempt but terror. Sir P. Sidney.

To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.

The setting of note against note in harmony; the adding of one or more parts to a given canto fermo or melody.

To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby.

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

To act against with equal force, power, or effect; to thwart or overcome by such action; to furnish an equivalent to or for; to counterbalance; to compensate. Upon balancing the account, the profit at last will hardly countervail the inconveniences that go allong with it. L'Estrange.

To wait or watch for; to be on guard against. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.

ary or naval officers, for the trial of one belonging to the army or navy, or of offenses against military or naval law.

f being coy; feigned o When the kind nymph would coyness feign, And hides but to be found again. Dryden.

, to turn the front wheels out of line with the hind wheels, so that one of them shall be against the body of the wagon.

with life; an animal; a man. He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. Fuller. God's first creature was light. Bacon. On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Milton. And most attractive is the fair result Of th…