Definition of counter

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Counter (v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured..

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Controller :: Controller (n.) An officer appointed to keep a counter register of accounts, or to examine, rectify, or verify accounts..
Counterirritate :: Counterirritate (v. t.) To produce counter irritation in; to treat with one morbid process for the purpose of curing another.
Countercaster :: Countercaster (n.) A caster of accounts; a reckoner; a bookkeeper; -- used contemptuously.
Hatti-sherif :: Hatti-sherif (n.) A irrevocable Turkish decree countersigned by the sultan.
Counterscale :: Counterscale (n.) Counterbalance; balance, as of one scale against another..
Counterfeitly :: Counterfeitly (adv.) By forgery; falsely.
Countermark :: Countermark (n.) An artificial cavity made in the teeth of horses that have outgrown their natural mark, to disguise their age..
Negative :: Negative (v. t.) To neutralize the force of; to counteract.
Brad :: Brad (n.) A thin nail, usually small, with a slight projection at the top on one side instead of a head; also, a small wire nail, with a flat circular head; sometimes, a small, tapering, square-bodied finishing nail, with a countersunk head..
Counterpoint :: Counterpoint (n.) Music in parts; part writing; harmony; polyphonic music. See Polyphony.
Kill :: Kill (v. t.) To destroy the effect of; to counteract; to neutralize; as, alkali kills acid..
Resist :: Resist (v. t.) To strive against; to endeavor to counteract, defeat, or frustrate; to act in opposition to; to oppose..
Consigne :: Consigne (n.) A countersign; a watchword.
Bar :: Bar (n.) 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..
Countermine :: Countermine (v. i.) To make a countermine or counterplot; to plot secretly.
Counterfoil :: Counterfoil (n.) The part of a writing (as the stub of a bank check) in which are noted the main particulars contained in the corresponding part, which has been issued..
Antibillous :: Antibillous (a.) Counteractive of bilious complaints; tending to relieve biliousness.
Chirograph :: Chirograph (n.) A writing which, requiring a counterpart, was engrossed twice on the same piece of parchment, with a space between, in which was written the word chirographum, through which the parchment was cut, and one part given to each party. It answered to what is now called a charter party..
Counterfeit :: Counterfeit (n.) One who pretends to be what he is not; one who personates another; an impostor; a cheat.
Counterguard :: Counterguard (n.) A low outwork before a bastion or ravelin, consisting of two lines of rampart parallel to the faces of the bastion, and protecting them from a breaching fire..
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