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structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.

Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check. The system of checks and counterchecks. J. H. Newton.

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

passing the copy for that which is original or genuine; to forge; as, to counterfeit the signature of another, coins, notes, etc.

A relative from the country visiting the city and unfamiliar with city manners and sights.

at the bottom of transferable bonds (state, railroad, etc.), given for a term of years, designed to be cut off and presented for payment when the interest is due; an interest warrant.

The pursuit or running game with dogs that follow by sight instead of by scent. In coursing of a deer, or hart, with greyhounds. Bacon

Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery. No solace could her paramour intreat Her once to show, ne court, nor dalliance. Spenser. I went to make my court to the Dike and Duches of Newcastle. Evelyn.

an, particularly to those of the council. In English writs, etc., issued by the crown, it signifies any earl. My noble lords and cousins, all, good morrow. Shak.

To hide sight; to conceal; to cloak; as, the snemy were covered from our sight by the woods. A cloud covered the mount. Exod. xxiv. 15. In vain shou striv'st to cover shame with shame. Milton.

A nickname to designate a poor white in some parts of the Southern United States. Bartlett.

of a broad scythe for cutting grain, with a set of long fingers parallel to the scythe, designed to receive the grain, and to lay it eventlyin a swath.

rugged rock; a cough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge. From crag to crag the signal fiew. Sir W. Scott.

The fiery cross, used as a rallying signal in the Highlands of Scotland.

o credit a man with the interest paid on a bond. To credit with, to give credit for; to assign as justly due to any one. Crove, Helmholtz, and Meyer, are more than any others to be credited with the clear enunciation of this doctrine. Newman.

To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i.,4.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the period of time following the Jurassic and preceding the Eocene.

. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

lty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers.

To dye with crimson or deep red; to redden. Signed in thy spoil and crimsoned in thy lethe. Shak.