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Counteractive of hypochondria. -- n.

Counteracting hysteria. -- n.

Counteracting, or deemed of use in, diseases of the kidneys. -- n.

An opposing law or rule of any kind. As it were by his own antinomy, or counterstatute. Milton.

Counteracting inflammation.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

Counteracting scurvy. -- n.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. -- n.

lood or tissues of an animal), capable of producing immunity from certain diseases, or of counteracting the poisonous effects of pathogenic bacteria.

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; -- used as a correlative of synonym. [R.] C. J. Smith.

To encounter or meet purposely with the view of mastering, as an obstacle, difficulty, or the like. The thorny wilds the woodmen fierce assail. Pope.

To feign; to counterfeit; to simulate; to resemble. [Obs.] Blount.

In counterpoint and fugue, a repetition of the subject in tones of twice the original length. Augmentation court (Eng. Hist.), a court erected by Stat. 27 Hen. VIII., to augment to revenues of the crown by the suppression of monasteries. It was long ago dissolved. Encyc. Brit.

Having a genuine original or authority, in opposition to that which is false, fictitious, counterfeit, or apocryphal; being what it purports to be; genuine; not of doubtful origin; real; as, an authentic paper or register. To be avenged On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire. Milton.

To equal in number, weight, force, or proportion; to counterpoise, counterbalance, counteract, or neutralize. One expression . . . must check and balance another. Kent.

A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where liquors for sale are kept.

A room containing a bar or counter at which liquors are sold.

the principle of the seesaw, in which one end rises as the other falls. Bascule bridge, a counterpoise or balanced drawbridge, which is opened by sinking the counterpoise and thus lifting the footway into the air.

A general action, fight, or encounter, in which all the divisions of an army are or may be engaged; an engagement; a combat.