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A contrary method of procedure; opposite course of action.

See Counterfoil.

A stroke or blow in return. Spenser.

Sunk into a chamfer; as, a countersunk bolt.

A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence. [Obs.] A countersway of restraint, curbing their wild exorbitance. Milton.

e of, or antithesis to, another; an antonym; -- the opposite of synonym; as, "foe" is the counterterm of "friend". C. J. Smith.

Resistance; opposition. [Obs.] Give not shus the countertime to fate. Dryden.

Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.

Same as Countertrippant.

The critical moment in a play, when, contrary to expectation, the action is embroiled in new difficulties. Dryden.

, 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.

See Contravallation.

ure in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. Sir W. Hamilton.

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

To wait or watch for; to be on guard against. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To weigh against; to counterbalance.

To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

To work in oppositeion to; to counteract. That counterworksh folly and caprice. Pope.

The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.

The house or room in which a merchant, trader, or manufacturer keeps his books and transacts business.