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2,018 words match “COUNT”

COUNTERPANE n. 2 definitions
erlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. On which a tissue counterpane was cast. Drayton.
COUNTERPART n. 4 definitions
Normandy agreed with the laws of England, so that they seem to be, as it were, copies or counterparts one of another. Sir M. Hale.
COUNTERPASSANT a.
Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.
COUNTERPLEAD v.
To plead the contrary of; to plead against; to deny.
COUNTERPLOT v. 2 definitions
strate, as a stratagem, by stratagem. Every wile had proved abortive, every plot had been counterplotted. De Quinsey.
COUNTERPOINT n. 5 definitions
Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony. Counterpoint, an invention equivalent to a new creation of music. Whewell.
COUNTERPOISE v. 5 definitions
To act against with equal weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby.
COUNTERPOLE n.
The exact opposite. The German prose offers the counterpole to the French style. De Quincey.
COUNTERPONDERATE v.
TO equal in weight; to counterpoise; to equiponderate.
COUNTERPROVE v.
To take a counter proof of, or a copy in reverse, by taking an impression directly from the face of an original. See Counter proof, under Counter.
COUNTERREVOLUTIONARY; COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY n.
marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]
COUNTERROLMENT n.
A counter account. See Control. [Obs.] Bacon.
COUNTERSCALE n.
Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.
COUNTERSCARF n.
eyond the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.
COUNTERSEAL v.
To seal or ratify with another or others. Shak.
COUNTERSECURE v.
To give additional security to or for. Burke.
COUNTERSHAFT n.
An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.
COUNTERSIGN v. 3 definitions
To sign on the opposite side of (an instrument or writing); hence, to sign in addition to the signature of a principal or superior, in order to attest the authenticity of a writing.
COUNTERSINK v. 4 definitions
eption of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.
COUNTERSTAND n.
Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.
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