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Preponderant weight; a counterbalance. [R.] Mrs. Browning.

To suit; to fit, as a counterpart. My heart was made to fit and pair with thine. Rowe.

Anything equal to, or resembling, another in all essential particulars; a counterpart. None but thyself can be thy parallel. Pope.

A watchword given only to officers of guards; -- distinguished from countersign, which is given to all guards.

or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.

To put in circulation; to give currency to; as, to pass counterfeit money. "Pass the happy news." Tennyson.

A pass or en encounter; as, a passage at arms. No passages of love Betwixt us twain henceforward evermore. Tennyson.

A word to be given before a person is allowed to pass; a watchword; a countersign. Macaulay.

One of a pair; a counterpart; as, one vase is the pendant to the other vase.

rtaken; to pursue steadily any project or course begun; to maintain a purpose in spite of counter influences, opposition, or discouragement; not to give or abandon what is undertaken. Thrice happy, if they know Their happiness, and persevere upright. Milton.

the character of; to represent by a fictitious appearance; to act the part of; hence, to counterfeit; to feign; as, he tried to personate his brother; a personated devotion. Hammond.

devoted to, philosophy. Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoics, encountered him. Acts xvii. 18.

r a hole, for enlarging the hole, or for sinking a recess for the head of a bolt, etc.; a counterbore. -- Pin grass. (Bot.) See Alfilaria. -- Pin hole, a small hole made by a pin; hence, any very small aperture or perforation. -- Pin lock, a lock having a cylindrical bolt; a lock in which pins, arranged by the key,…

nder instead of a point, so as to follow and enlarge a hole previously made, or to form a counterbore around it. -- Plug rod (Steam Eng.) , a rod attached to the beam for working the valves, as in the Cornish engine. -- Plug valve (Mech.), a tapering valve, which turns in a case like the plug of a faucet.…

That which causes a balance; a counterweight. Men of unbounded imagination often want the poise of judgment. Dryden.

A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.] Camden.

everal tone series, or melodic parts, progressing simultaneously according to the laws of counterpoint; contrapuntal; as, a polyphonic composition; -- opposed to homophonic, or monodic.

y, in which the melody is given to one part only, the others filling out the harmony. See Counterpoint.

eads; they are always alternately argent and azure, unless otherwise specially mentioned. Counter potent (Her.), a fur differing from potent in the arrangement of the patches.

A combining form or prefix signifying false, counterfeit, pretended, spurious; as, pseudo-apostle, a false apostle; pseudo- clergy, false or spurious clergy; pseudo-episcopacy, pseudo-form, pseudo-martyr, pseudo-philosopher. Also used adjectively.