With kindly counter under mimic shade.
Spenser.
Coun"ter, v. i. (Boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
His left hand countered provokingly.
C. Kingsley.
Coun`ter*act" (koun`t?r-?kt"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counteracted; p. pr. & vb. n. Counteracting.] To act in opposition to; to hinder, defeat, or frustrate, by contrary agency or influence; as, to counteract the effect of medicines; to counteract good advice.
Coun`ter*ac"tion (koun`t?r-?k"sh?n), n. Action in opposition; hindrance resistance.
[They] do not . . . overcome the counteraction of a false principle or of stubborn partiality.
Johnson.
Coun`ter*act"ive (-?kt"?v), a. Tending to counteract.
Coun`ter*act"ive, n. One who, or that which, counteracts.
Coun`ter*act"ive*ly, adv. By counteraction.
Coun`ter*bal"ance (-b?l"ans), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterbalanced (-anst); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterbalancing.] To oppose with an equal weight or power; to counteract the power or effect of; to countervail; to equiponderate; to balance.
The remaining air was not able to counterbalance the mercurial cylinder.
Boyle.
The study of mind is necessary to counterbalance and correct the influence of the study of nature.
Sir W. Hamilton.
Coun"ter*bal`ance (koun"t?r-b?l`ans), n. A weight, power, or agency, acting against or balancing another; as: (a) A mass of metal in one side of a driving wheel or fly wheel, to balance the weight of a crank pin, etc., on the opposite side of the wheel. (b) A counterpoise to balance the weight of anything, as of a drawbridge or a scale beam.
Money is the counterbalance to all other things purchasable by it.
Locke.
Coun"ter*bore` (-b?r`), n. 1. A flat-bottomed cylindrical enlargement of the mouth of a hole, usually of slight depth, as for receiving a cylindrical screw head.
2. A kind of pin drill with the cutting edge or edges normal to the axis; -- used for enlarging a hole, or for forming a flat-bottomed recess at its mouth.
Coun`ter*bore" (koun`t?r-b?r"), v. t. To form a counterbore in, by boring, turning, or drilling; to enlarge, as a hole, by means of a counterbore.
Coun"ter brace` (br?s`). 1. (Naut.) The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
2. (Engin.) A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
&fist; In a quadrilateral system of bracing, the main brace is usually in the direction of one diagonal, and the counter brace in the direction of the other. Strains in counter braces are occasioned by the live load only, as, in a roof, by the wind, or, in a bridge, by a moving train.
Coun"ter*brace`, v. t. 1. (Naut.) To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
2. (Engin.) To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.
Coun`ter*buff" (koun`t?r-b?f"), v. t. To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. Dryden.
Coun"ter*buff` (koun"t?r-b?f`), n. A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.
Coun"ter*cast` (koun"t?r-k?st`), n. A trick; a delusive contrivance. [Obs.] Spenser.
Coun"ter*cast`er (-?r), n. A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Coun`ter*change" (koun`t&etilde;r*chānj), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterchanged (-ch?njd"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterchanging.] 1. To give and receive; to cause to change places; to exchange.
2. To checker; to diversify, as in heraldic counterchanging. See Counterchaged, a., 2.
Witch-elms, that counterchange the floor
Of this flat lawn with dusk and bright.
Tennyson.
Coun"ter*change` (koun"t&etilde;r*chānj`), n. Exchange; reciprocation.
Coun`ter*changed" (-ch?njd"), a. 1. Exchanged.
2. (Her.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure.
Coun"ter*charge` (koun"t?r-ch?rj`), n. An opposing charge.
Coun`ter*charm" (koun`t?r-ch?rm"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Countercharmed (-ch?rmd`); p. pr. & vb. n. Countercharming.] To destroy the effect of a charm upon.
Coun"ter*charm` (koun"t?r-ch?rm`), n. That which has the power of destroying the effect of a charm.
Coun`ter*check" (koun`t?r-ch?k"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Counterchecked (-ch?ckt"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterchecking.] To oppose or check by some obstacle; to check by a return check.
Coun"ter*check` (koun"t?r-ch?k`), n. 1. A check; a stop; a rebuke, or censure to check a reprover.
2. Any force or device designed to restrain another restraining force; a check upon a check.
The system of checks and counterchecks.
J. H. Newton.
Coun"ter*claim` (-klām`), n. (Law) A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
Coun"ter-com*po`ny (-k&obreve;m*pō`n&ybreve;), a. (Her.) See Compony.
Coun"ter-couch`ant (koun"t&etilde;r*kouch"ant), a. (Her.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.
Coun"ter-cou*rant" (-k??-r?nt"), a. (Her.) Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
Coun"ter*cur`rent (koun"t?r-k?r`-rent), a. Running in an opposite direction.
Coun"ter*cur`rent, n. A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
Coun`ter*draw" (koun`t&etilde;r*dr&add;"), v. t. [imp. Counterdrew (- dr&udd;"); p. p. Counterdrawn (-dr?n"); p. pr. & vb. n. Counterdrawing.] To copy, as a design or painting, by tracing with a pencil on oiled paper, or other transparent substance.