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ther handsomely finished, colored, gilded, or the like. Buskins he wore of costliest cordwain. Spenser.

A worker in cordwain, or cordovan leather; a shoemaker. [Archaic.]

A train whose coaches are connected so as to have through its entire length a continuous corridor, into which the compartments open. [Eng.]

A piratical vessel. Barbary corsairs . . . infested the coast of the Mediterranean. Prescott.

The American wood rabbit (Lepus sylvaticus); -- also called Molly cottontail.

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

See Counterfesance. [Obs.]

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.

A counter tally; correspondence (in sound). [Obs.] At the countretaille, in return. Chaucer.

See Cockswain.

Having an impaired intellect; whimsical; crazy. Pope.

See Crare. [Obs.]

The pole flounder.

A creel or osier basket.

See under Laid.

An indented or zigzaged line of intrenchment.

Having the tail cropped.

A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.