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A garden plot, usually about half an acre. [Cape Colony]

Full of bitterness. [Obs.]

A name given to several different fishes, in allusion to their slippery coating of mucus, as the Stromateus triacanthus of the Atlantic coast, the Epinephelus punctatus of the southern coast, the rock eel, and the kelpfish of New Zealand.

A general name for the numerous species of diurnal Lepidoptera.

See under Cartridge.

cheering; cheery; contented; happy; joyful; lively; animated; willing. To entertain a cheerful disposition. Shak. The cheerful birds of sundry kind Do chant sweet music. Spenser. A cheerful confidence in the mercy of God. Macaulay. This general applause and cheerful shout. Shak.

In a cheerful manner, gladly.

Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

Connate or coalescent at the base so as to produce a broad foliaceous body through the center of which the stem passes; -- applied to leaves, as the leaves of the boneset.

See Counterfesance. [Obs.]

semblance to something else; portrayed. Look here upon this picture, and on this-The counterfeit presentment of two brothers. Shak.

One who counterfeits; one who copies or imitates; especially, one who copies or forges bank notes or coin; a forger. The coin which was corrupted by counterfeiters. Camden.

By forgery; falsely.

The act of forging; forgery. [Obs.] [Written also counterfaisance.]

Counterflory.

Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.

That part of a tally, formerly in the exchequer, which was kept by an officer in that court, the other, called the stock, being delivered to the person who had lent the king money on the account; - - called also counterstock. [Eng.]

An opposing force.

A kind of buttress of masonry to strengthen a revetment wall.

Full of danger; dangerous. [Obs.] -- Dan"ger*ful*ly, adv. [Obs.] Udall.