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ondition to another, or the state of being changed; transmutation; change. Artificial conversion of water into ice. Bacon. The conversion of the aliment into fat. Arbuthnot.

Ready to converse; social. [Archaic] Feltham.

A partnership or firm; as, A. and B. have this day formed a copartnership.

One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another. [Obs.] Howell.

the ditch, with its parapet and glacis; as, the enemy have lodged themselves on the counterscarp.

To seal or ratify with another or others. Shak.

To give additional security to or for. Burke.

An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.

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.

n of the head of a screw or bolt below the surface, either wholly or in part; as, to countersink a hole for a screw.

Resistance; opposition; a stand against. Making counterstand to Robert Guiscard. Longfellow.

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.

The versed sine of the complement of an arc or angle. See Illust. of Functions.

A region of country having covers; a hunting country.

me or hindering, as a weight or drag; embarrassing; vexatious; cumbrous. To perform a cumbersome obedience. Sir. P. Sidney.