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A bedquilt; a counterpane; a coverlet. [U. S.]

To mimic; to counterfeit. [Obs.] Dryden.

ed face or mask supposed to represent Cardinal Bellarmine, a leader in the Roman Catholic Counter Reformation, following the Reformation; -- called also graybeard, longbeard.

it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.

A skirmish; an encounter. [Obs.]

To encounter; to remain firm under (a hardship); to endure; to suffer; to undergo. Poor naked wretches, wheresoe'er you are, That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm. Shak.

Spurious; fictitious; sham; -- a cant term originally applied to counterfeit coin, and hence denoting anything counterfeit. [Colloq. U. S.]

To feign or counterfeit. "Borrowed hair." Spenser. The borrowed majesty of England. Shak.

a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head.

To encounter with courage and fortitude; to set at defiance; to defy; to dare. These I can brave, but those I can not bear. Dryden.

ding, or that polite deference and respect which civility obliges us either to express or counterfeit towards the persons with whom we converse. Hume.

To imitate or counterfeit a brick wall on, as by smearing plaster with red ocher, making the joints with an edge tool, and pointing them. To brick up, to fill up, inclose, or line, with brick.

g person. (b) (Naut.) To check the course of, as of a ship, by dropping the anchor, or by counterbracing the sails so as to keep her nearly stationary (she is then said to lie to). (c) To cause (a vessel) to lie to, as by firing across her course. (d) To apply a rope to the capstan. -- To bring to light, to disclose;…

Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham. [Slang] "These Brummagem gentry." Lady D. Hardy.

A skirmish; a slight encounter; a shock or collision; as, to have a brush with an enemy. Let grow thy sinews till their knots be strong, And tempt not yet the brushes of the war. Shak.

A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

A restaurant or café at which the patrons serve themselves with food kept at a counter, taking the food to small tables to eat. [U. S.]

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

The kiling of another in self-defense upon a sudden and unpremeditated encounter. See Chaud-Medley.

inguish by a check; to put a mark against (an item) after comparing with an original or a counterpart in order to secure accuracy; as, to check an account; to check baggage.