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A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.

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.

ect; 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 vote in opposition ti; to balance or overcome by viting; to outvote. Dr. J. Scott.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.

Only very great men were in the habit of dividing the year between town and country. Macualay.

ce. He had introduced the English country-dance to the knowledge of the Dutch ladies. Macualay.

ozley & W. -- County court, a court whose jurisdiction is limited to county. -- County palatine, a county distingushed by particular privileges; -- so called a palatio (from the palace), because the owner had originally royal powers, or the same powers, in the administration of justice, as the king had in his palace;…

th] wore fine clothes, gave dinners of several courses, paid court to venal beauties. Macualay.

there ran a row Cf cloisters. Tennyson. Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court. Macualay.

nor versed in state affairs. Bacon. This courtier got a frigate, and that a company. Macualay.

Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.

harton] was born in the days of the Covenant, and was the heir of a covenanted house. Macualay.

e sufficient for; to comprehend, include, or embrace; to account for or solve; to counterbalance; as, a mortgage which fully covers a sum loaned on it; a law which covers all possible cases of a crime; receipts than do not cover expenses.

A tree (Galactodendron utile or Brosimum Galactodendron) of South America, which yields, on incision, a nourishing fluid, resembling milk.

f spirit. The cowardice of doing wrong. Milton. Moderation was despised as cowardice. Macualay.

r or other consequences; befitting a coward; dastardly; base; as, cowardly malignity. Macualay. The cowardly rashness of those who dare not look danger in the face. Burke.

usually by small arts, or in a pitiful way. He had cozened the world by fine phrases. Macualay. Children may be cozened into a knowledge of the letters. Locke. Goring loved no man so well but that he would cozen him, and expose him to public mirth for having been cozened. Clarendon.

with a harsh noise. Roofs were blazing and walls crashing in every part of the city. Macualay.