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To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2. With-elms, that counterchange the floor Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright. Tennyson.

hanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.

An opposing charge.

To destroy the effect of a charm upon.

ned to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check. The system of checks and counterchecks. J. H. Newton.

A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.

Running in an opposite direction.

To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.

See Counterfesance. [Obs.]

a resemblance to something else; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak.

One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden.

By forgery; falsely.

The act of forging; forgery. [Obs.] [Written also counterfaisance.]

Counterflory.

Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.

being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; - - called also counterstock. [Eng.]

An opposing force.

A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

An adjustable gage, with double points for transferring measurements from one timber to another, as the breadth of a mortise to the place where the tenon is to be made. Knight.

An exceedingly faint roundish or somewhat oblong nebulous light near the ecliptic and opposite the sun, best seen during September and October, when in the constellations Sagittarius and Pisces. Its cause is not yet understood. Called also Gegenschein.